Politics
Boris skips sleaze debate as minister says he’ll watch on TV instead
Keir Starmer said a Johnson no-show means the PM is "too arrogant or too cowardly" to face down the sleaze scandal.
Sleazy Tories lose poll lead to Labour amid Paterson crisis
Renewed focus on the climate crisis has seen the Greens surge by five points to 11 per cent in the polls.
Boris Johnson and Tories see record low approval ratings from UK voters
Some 48 per cent of voters now think the Tories are “corrupt”, whilst 47 per cent think the same about Johnson.
‘Clean the stables’: Johnson faces calls for urgent sleaze inquiry
An emergency Commons debate will be held to consider the implications of the Owen Paterson row.
UK may pull out of EU science and research schemes to spite Brussels
Britain could withdraw from Horizon Europe and Euratom, the continent's atomic energy treaty, if relations with the EU worsen.
Cases of scurvy double in the 10 years the Tories have been in charge
Jonathan Ashworth said the huge rise in cases of the Victorian illness was 'a shameful indictment on a decade of the Tories'.
The Rebel Alliance is starting to crumble
A general election is a long way off, but a leadership challenge could be in the offing.
Senior Tory warns PM risks becoming ‘former occupant of No 10’ over Paterson
“Constituents have been rightly appalled by what they have seen. One system for MPs, another for the public.”
Nigel Farage’s Brexit party handed Labour 25 seats in 2019 election
Farage’s party failed to win a single seat in December 2019, which is consistent with his own seven attempts at becoming an MP.