An ex-Tory party chair helped secure PPE deals for three companies through a VIP recommendation lane, it has emerged.

In gut-wrenching testimony to MPs, Rafiq said "the game as a whole has a problem with listening to the victim".

Caroline Nokes said she recalls the prime minister's father "smacking me on the backside" at Tory conference in 2003.

The 67-year-old was indicted on Friday on two counts of criminal contempt.

Cignpost - which sells £35 tests for holidaymakers - sells DNA from Covid swabs on to third parties.

Unesco has backed the Greek request for government-to-government talks about the return of the marbles.

Among them is former transport secretary Chris Grayling, who took a £100,000-a-year role advising a ports company.

Lord Freud said the benefits cap was not an austerity measure, but a way of winning over voters.

The Tesla and SpaceX owner lashed out at Sanders after the 80-year-old senator said that billionaires should pay more tax.