Boris Johnson’s plan to build swimming pool could be scuppered by newts
The amphibians, once blamed by the ex-prime minister for delays in housebuilding, could pour cold water on his hopes for a pool at his country manor.
Half a billion pieces of unused PPE to be burned in China
Incinerating the plastic-laced kit is equivalent to the CO2 produced by 3,750 UK households’ electricity consumption for a year.
Sunak celebrates Tories’ Uxbridge win in greasy spoon cafe
The Prime Minister and successful Tory candidate Steve Tuckwell each got a hero’s welcome as they arrived at a cafe after the by-election win.
Gove claims Brexit planning HELPED prepare for Covid pandemic
The assertion goes against what pretty much every other operational leader has said.
Boris Johnson’s Covid WhatsApps from old phone STILL not handed to inquiry
Government officials are helping him to try to retrieve the messages on the locked device relating to the early pandemic response, it is understood.
MPs threaten to use parliamentary privilege to unveil BBC presenter in Commons
The young person at the heart of the controversy has said nothing inappropriate or unlawful happened and the allegations are “rubbish”.
Unite votes not to break historic link with Labour
The chief of the UK’s largest trade union urged Sir Keir Starmer to ‘deliver on jobs, pay and conditions’.