Politics
Tory councillors quit for Reform and Reclaim before North Shropshire vote
Two Tory councillors have jumped ship ten days before North Shropshire voters choose Owen Paterson's replacement.
Jed Mercurio tweets Boris police pic, saying he is ‘too bent’ for next Line of Duty
“Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of Line of Duty but we’re looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle", he said.
Trump mistakenly brands himself ‘stupid and corrupt’
He also conceded the US presidential election in what has been tipped as the most impressive self-own ever.
New Statesman appeals to Boris’s friends to ‘free him from the misery of being PM’
"Just as it’s not fair to keep animals shut up in zoos, is it really humane to keep politicians stuck in posts that are causing them pain?"
Rod Liddle walk-out students are ‘pathetic’, says Durham college head
Among other things, Liddle claimed that colonialism was not the cause of Africa's problems.
Tory levelling up plans in ‘disarray’, says Nandy
Michael Gove has pushed back publishing the government's flagship levelling up paper until the new year.
Nigeria accuses UK of ‘travel apartheid’ over red-listing
Nigeria's high commissioner in London said the UK's travel ban was "wrong" and "panicky".
Johnson plots to let ministers scrap legal rulings they don’t like
The PM reportedly wants to curtail the process of judicial review. Critics say he's seeking a "more compliant judiciary".
Trevelyan heads to Washington with UK – not EU – still hit by steel tariffs
The trade secretary is seeking a US free trade deal, amid rumours the UK is being punished because of Brexit.