Boris Johnson said the new vessel, worth up to £200 million, will reflect the UK's "burgeoning status as a great, independent maritime trading nation".
“I always thought that that appointment (of Mr Cummings) was, personally, going to end somewhere along this road.”
“In most countries in the world, laws that act retroactively are illegal. We need your support, we need you to raise awareness that things are not fine.”
The Prime Minister’s ethics adviser said the award of the framework contracts to Topwood ‘should have been declared at the time’.
Yesterday an official probe found that Tory donor Lord Brownlow initially covered the cost, but the PM was "not aware" of it.
The failure was “a result of his lack of knowledge and in no way deliberate”, a report found.
The long-delayed judgement said a "significant failing" had taken place, but ultimately exonerated the prime minister.
The First Minister went on to claim the deal would be a “betrayal” of British farmers.
"Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility."
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