The decision by the Commons Committee on Standards is a relief for Boris Johnson – and a victory over Westminster’s ‘sleazebuster’ Kathryn Stone. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Miss Stone, who had investigated the Prime Minister’s 2019 holiday with then-fiancee Carrie Symonds to the Caribbean island, had ruled that Boris broke the rules that say MPs must … Read more
SIMON WALTERS on the row that’s really got Boris Johnson rattled: Who helped the PM pay to refurbish his Downing Street flat? By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 10:43 GMT, 13 March 2021 | Updated: 11:11 GMT, 13 March 2021 Questions over who helped Boris Johnson pay for the refurbishment of his Downing Street … Read more
A letting agent pleaded poverty to convince a court to grant more time to pay back his victim despite flaunting his lavish lifestyle online including sun-soaked trips, golf days and a £2,400 Christmas gift from his wife, MailOnline can reveal. David Walters, 39, was ordered by a judge to pay more than £20,000 to homeowner … Read more
The devastating way that pupils’ attainment levels and ability to study have plummeted because of school closures is laid bare today. One in three parents say that their children’s sense of educational fulfilment has been damaged, with the poorest being worst affected. Approximately half say their ability to concentrate has suffered in lockdown while more … Read more
SIMON WALTERS: Keir Starmer may be key to slaying the Spartans in the ERG By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 00:09 GMT, 24 December 2020 | Updated: 00:10 GMT, 24 December 2020 The UK has been negotiating for a Brexit deal for four-and-a half years. Boris Johnson would have just days to get … Read more
Sir Edward Heath is the Conservative Prime Minister who sold out Britain’s fishermen in 1973 to take us into what became the European Union. Boris Johnson does not want to be remembered as the one who sold them out to take us out. That is one of the main reasons for what appears to be … Read more
Boris Johnson has a new ploy when asked about the prospect of a No Deal Brexit outcome: He talks about Australia instead. He did it again yesterday, comparing leaving the EU without a trade agreement as ‘the Australian-style option’. On Thursday, the Prime Minister said cutting ties with Brussels ‘on Australian terms’ would allow the … Read more
The Oxford professor, physicist and philosopher Sir Roger Penrose was finally awarded a Nobel Prize last month 55 years after he proved there are black holes in space. It has taken less than 55 weeks since the last election for proof to emerge that there is a gaping black hole at the heart of Boris … Read more
He has defied the gloomsters. Now Boris Johnson must hold his nerve, writes SIMON WALTERS By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 22:11 BST, 13 October 2020 | Updated: 00:21 BST, 14 October 2020 The image spoke volumes. At Monday’s dramatic press conference, Boris Johnson was flanked by two of the most influential men … Read more
Boris Johnson and Jamie Oliver have rarely seen eye to eye when it comes to food. Back in 2006, the future prime minister denounced the TV chef’s celebrated campaign to improve school meals. A libertarian at heart, Boris loudly backed the mothers who, disgusted by Jamie’s healthier school dinners, passed junk food to their children … Read more