Cop26: Boris Johnson seeks to downplay failure to get deal to end coal power November 14, 2021 Boris Johnson has sought to play down the failure at Cop26 to get an agreement to end the use of coal power, saying a push from India and China to water down the final deal won’t “make much difference”. Johnson today claimed the deal agreed by 197 nations at the United Nations summit in Glasgow [...]
Boris Johnson says Modi coal stance at Cop26 will not affect UK-India trade talks November 14, 2021 Boris Johnson has said India’s push to water down the wording on coal in the final Cop26 summit deal will not affect UK trade negotiations with the Commonwealth country. Johnson said at a press conference today that “I don’t think there’s any need in particular to introduce this into our bilateral relations”, after Cop26 president [...]
Tory MP paid £300,000 by private equity firm that invests in spy tech for China November 14, 2021 A Tory MP has been paid £300,000 by a private equity firm that invests in a spy technology company used by the China government against Uyghur Muslims. North East Bedfordshire MP Richard Fuller has been paid £20,000 a month since January 2020 to work as an advisory director for Investcorp Securities. It is one of four jobs [...]
Labour takes lead in the polls in wake of Tory sleaze scandals November 14, 2021 Labour has taken the lead in two major polls amid the Tory second jobs and sleaze row that has engulfed Westminster. Labour leads the Conservatives by 37 to 36 per cent in today’s Observer/Opinium poll, while a Savanta ComRes survey two days ago gave Sir Keir Starmer’s party a 6 per cent lead. The Opinium [...]
Jacob Rees-Mogg may have broken parliamentary rules by not declaring £6m in loans November 14, 2021 Jacob Rees-Mogg may have broken parliamentary rules by not disclosing £6m in loans he took out from his Cayman Islands-linked company. The leader of the House of Commons took out £2.94m of “director’s loans” every year between 2018 and 2020 from his UK-based company Saliston Ltd, according to the Mail on Sunday. Rees-Mogg, who led [...]
Shareholder payday on the horizon? Lord Cruddas’ CMC Markets mulls split November 14, 2021 Tory peer Lord Cruddas is reportedly looking into splitting up his CMC Markets into two London-listed firms. The separation could be announced within days, Sky News’ Mark Kleinman reported, creating a leveraged trading business as well as a non-leveraged technology and investment products platform. The move could see shareholders, including Lord Cruddas with his 62.5 [...]
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace denies murder of Kenyan woman by British soldier was covered up November 14, 2021 Defence Secretary Ben Wallce has insisted that there is “no cover up” as Kenyan police look to reopen a probe into what happened to a woman whose body was found in a septic tank close to a British army base. Wallace said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had aided the investigation into Agnes Wanjiru’s alleged [...]
Tory sleaze row puts Johnson behind Starmer for first time since January November 13, 2021 The row over entrenched sleaze within the Tory party has caused Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to leapfrog Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the first time since January. Voters seem to be blaming Johnson for allowing the sleaze saga to worsen, with his ratings as “best prime minister” dipping four percentage points to 27 per [...]
Voters shifting away: Tory sleaze row starting to hurt Conservatives in the polls November 13, 2021 Two-thirds of voters now consider the governing party “very sleazy” amid a flurry of negative headlines, as voters are shifting away from the Tories, according to new polling. A poll by Savanta ComRes for the Daily Mail puts Labour six points ahead of the Conservatives in a sign that recent revelations about MPs’ second jobs [...]
Brexit: ‘Complete instability’ looms in Northern Ireland as ‘tough guy’ approach is not helping, warns Irish minister November 12, 2021 A “tough guy” approach when it comes to Northern Ireland will lead to “disaster”, Irish minister for European affairs Thomas Byrne warned this morning. Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme if there is a serious danger of a full-scale trade war, Byrne said: “There is a serious danger of complete instability in Northern Ireland [...]
