Politics
Johnson decides against backing candidate in Tory leadership race
The Prime Minister suggested his support would do more harm than good.
Jeremy Hunt pledges to bring fox hunting back if he’s elected PM
The Tory leadership hopeful sajd the practice was an important part of the countryside’s “heritage”.
Tory Party demographics revealed ahead of leadership election… and they make for pretty grim reading
Research conducted ahead of the last leadership contest showed they largely believe in the death penalty and are against gay marriage.
Minister who made rude gesture trolled by Russian embassy after hitting out at ‘baying mob’
The “baying mob” was actually quite a lot of women, Ava-Santina pointed out. One was clutching a photograph of her husband who died from covid.
2007 video clip of Rishi Sunak comes back to haunt him
"I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are working-class…well, not working class."
Tax investigation caps off rocky week for Zahawi
It has been revealed that the chancellor is under investigation by the very department he began running just days ago.
Petition to reinstate Boris Johnson reaches…. 7,000 signatures
And a few people have pointed out one obvious flaw.
Boris Johnson planning to put Nadine Dorries in the House of Lords
Dorries is expected to depart frontline politics and pursue a career in novel writing following Boris Johnson’s downfall.
Eight Tories join race to replace Johnson as PM
It is expected that at least 12 people will put their names forward in a contest Mark Francois described as the "Grand National without. the fences".