Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be quizzed about the impact Eat Out to Help Out had on the spread of coronavirus. When Sunak appears before the Covid Inquiry on Monday, December 11, he will hear allegations his scheme fuelled the spread of the virus. It comes after WhatsApp messages revealed top scientists referred to Sunak as “Dr Death, the Chancellor” […]

Robert Jenrick delivered blow-after-blow to Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda plan this morning, warning that the Bill simply “won’t work”. In his first television interview since sensationally quitting the Government earlier this week, Mr Jenrick refused to deny that the Prime Minister is intentionally misleading voters about how successful the new illegal migrant plan will be. The former immigration minister also […]

Rishi Sunak’s political enemies have allegedly been plotting the demise of his career in a central London Italian restaurant. The Prime Minister is under heavy fire from both the Right and Left of his party, and now it has emerged those on the Tory Right, including allies of sacked-Home Secretary Suella Braverman, have been meeting at a restaurant in the […]

Watch live: Boris Johnson gives evidence at Covid-19 Inquiry Boris Johnson was pictured wearing the football club hat as he left the Covid Inquiry on Thursday. One fan, John Dale, a resident of the Lincolnshire town, started a petition demanding Mr Johnson stop wearing the hat. Mr Dale accused the former prime minister, 59, of bringing Grimsby into “disrepute” and […]

Reports earlier this week suggested Defence Secretary Grant Shapps is ready to pull the plug on the Foreign Office’s plan to hand the islands – collectively known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) – to Mauritius, which is 310 miles away. The Telegraph reported Mr Shapps as being “alarmed” at the possibility, fearing it would jeopardise relations with the […]

Fed-up Britons young and old are refusing to pay the TV licence fee in their “hundreds of thousands” and MPs are calling for the levy to be scrapped. Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer confirmed on Thursday the TV licence fee would rise next April from £159 to £169.50 – a hike of £10.50 or 6.6 per cent. But the South East […]

Sunak defends new Rwanda plan Announcing his latest deal to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda, Rishi Sunak made it clear that the new treaty signed with the African country, and new domestic legislation, is as far as the Government can go. Despite demands from hardline right-wing Tory MPs for the Government to go further and rule any way for migrants […]

PM holds press conference on new Rwanda plan Lord Frost has suggested the Conservative Party should be open to changing leader yet again if heading for a defeat at the General Election. The former Brexit negotiator claimed many Tories no longer care about winning the election, and the party has largely resigned itself to defeat. Lord Frost warned “anything” that […]

Nigel Farage has topped a poll on who should be the next Tory leader, with Suella Braverman second and Boris Johnson third. The Express asked readers who they thought should replace Rishi Sunak as he faces a crisis over the Rwanda scheme. As of 6pm yesterday, more than 5,000 people had voted in the survey on this website. Mr Farage, […]

LBC: Laura Farris confirms Robert Jenrick has resigned Conservative MPs have twisted the knife into Rishi Sunak after the shock resignation of immigration minister Robert Jenrick, who concluded that he could not support the Government’s revised Rwanda legislation. Mr Jenrick, who was one of the chief proponents of the Government’s plan to ship illegal migrants to east Africa, has followed […]