Politics

"I deeply regret your decision to hold a referendum on the settled question of Europe to appease headbangers, zealots and quislings."

Alex Bourne, who used to run a pub near to the health secretary’s former home in Suffolk, said he offered his services several by sending Hancock a personal WhatsApp message.

Tory minister with a modicum of principle resigns.

What’s happened is a straight £4bn a year switch from international development to military equipment - from aid to guns, essentially.

At September’s sentencing hearing, defence counsel Ian Winter QC said there were 34 character references including from ““serving Members of Parliament”, but did not name them.

Liz Sugg, the sustainable development minister, resigned from her role in the revamped Foreign Office and Development Office, calling Sunak's cuts "fundamentally wrong".

Boris Johnson was, once more, stuck in his virtual tin can and, again, sneaking glances off-camera to Carrie or some dead-eyed SpAD who probably burns 50 quid notes in front of homeless people.

“We know, from the approach that the EU have taken and the approach that the Commission generally takes that their view is rules are rules."

“The government’s actions were shameful, both in the scale of the protections they took away from very vulnerable children in England and the way they went about it.”