Politics
Did Nanny make the call? Rees-Mogg compares scramble for PPE with contacting plumber
Firms recommended by MPs, peers and ministers’ offices were given priority as the Government sought PPE for the NHS in the first phase of the pandemic.
Brexit talks suspended following positive Covid test
David Frost had reportedly told the Prime Minister to prepare to shake on a deal as early as next week.
Downing Street’s war with the media is over. Or is it?
The departures of Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain have ushered in a thawing of relations with the media, or so the story goes.
Scottish independence greater threat to businesses than ‘any friction’ caused by Brexit, says Tory MP
It comes as a Scottish minister compares Westminster’s devolution approach to 1543 war.
Jacob Rees-Mogg struggles to wriggle out of cronyism questions
It comes after a NAO report revealed fast-track VIP lanes had been set up to allow little-known companies with political contracts to win lucrative PPE deals.
‘Stop ignoring us’ – Grieving families project message to PM on to Parliament
“You said you’d meet with us and then went back on your promise. So now you are ignoring us we decided to bring our message to the Houses of Parliament.”
Tories handed free pass as Labour is engulfed by civil war
Jeremy Corbyn has been readmitted as a party member but Sir Keir Starmer has said he would not restore the whip - meaning the former leader will sit as an independent MP.
‘Frustration, anxiety and fear’ in Northern Ireland as Brexit cliff-edge looms
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Louise Haigh said “thousands of businesses still do not know the bare basics” of the trading regime at the end of the year.
Tories’ VIP procurement channel leaves spurned suppliers outraged
Roughly one-in-ten suppliers processed through the VIP channel – 47 out of 493 – obtained lucrative PPE contracts, compared to less than one-in-a-hundred suppliers that came through the ordinary lane.