Politics
Home Secretary Priti Patel: no stranger to controversy
Her return to Government as Home Secretary in 2019 raised eyebrows due to the manner of her departure from Cabinet in 2017.
Patel’s top civil servant quits with stinging attack on Home Secretary
Sir Philip Rutnam said he had been the target of a ‘vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign’ which he accused Priti Patel of orchestrating
The ‘not quite right’ Boris Johnson article Thatcher read before her downfall
The then PM highlighted parts of the report before making a key statement which triggered a Tory rebellion.
Boris Johnson urged to ‘get a grip’ on the coronavirus outbreak
The PM is under fire for not holding his first Cobra meeting on Covid-19 before the weekend.
PM warned Brussels will not bow to ‘artificial deadlines’ in Brexit trade talks
France’s Europe minister Amelie de Montchalin said substance is more important than deadlines.
Count Binface announces plan to run for London mayor role
The Leader of the Recyclons says that the mayoral race needs shaking up and has vowed to ‘take out the trash’.
Truss in talks with Trump’s trade representative
The Government’s blueprint for a trade deal with the US will be published next week.
Michael Gove echoes Dad’s Army in put down to ‘nationalist’ SNP
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster accused the party of putting ‘the smashing up of the United Kingdom ahead of anything else’.
Johnson could leave UK-EU trade talks with no deal as early as June
Worryingly the Govt will not commit to publishing any economic assessment of the cost of this scenario.