Politics

Irony is officially dead.

"I'd like to thank members opposite for asking why a senior civil servant famed for her integrity decided to join the party with a real plan for Britain"

Some 45,756 people are thought to have made the crossing in 2022. There were no recorded small boat crossings until 2018.

There is “no reason to believe” Sue Gray was not impartial when she investigated partygate, a Cabinet minister has said.

“Making it difficult to trade with your biggest market is a dumb thing to do", Sir Martin Broughton said.

Several high-profile figures, meanwhile, have come out in support of Baroness Patience Wheatcroft.

Simon Case described Boris Johnson as a ‘nationally distrusted figure’ during the Covid pandemic, according to leaked messages.

It comes as the prime minister was warned that upcoming small boats legislation is ‘unworkable’ by the Refugee Council.

In 2021, a senior Tory MP and a journalist publicly accused Stanley Johnson of touching them at Conservative party conferences.