Politics

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Landmark law to ban trophy hunting imports given seal of approval by the Lords
The legislation, which is currently going through the House of Lords, would block hunting tourists importing animal skins, severed heads and carcasses after shoots abroad
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Boris Johnson abandons bid to block Partygate lies report as support evaporates
The former PM has been forced into a humiliating retreat as he tells his cheerleaders not to vote against the damning findings of the Privileges Committee
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Boris Johnson breaks rules yet again as he lands £1million job after Partygate
The lockdown-busting former PM committed a 'clear breach' of the rules by failing to get permission from the appointments watchdog, Acoba, for his new job as a newspaper columnist
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NHS workers take six million sick days because of poor mental health
Labour’s Dr Rosena Allin-Khan warned hard-working staff including doctors and nurses are facing extra pressures as hospitals struggle with record waiting lists
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Boris Johnson lands new job - days after quitting over damning Partygate report
The Daily Mail teased an 'erudite new columinist who'll be required reading in Westminster and across the world' on its front page on Friday alongside a silhouette figure of a man
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PM's favourite McDonald's meal causes confusion because it was axed 3 years ago
During his campaign to become Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak said he loves having McDonald's breakfast wraps with his daughters - but the items were actually discontinued in March 2020
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Inside the Tory civil war ahead of vote on Boris Johnson's Partygate lies report
Rishi Sunak has been branded 'weak' after Downing Street suggested he could dodge a Commons vote on the Boris Johnson report, which found he misled Parliament on multiple occasions
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Boris the liar - the one word left to describe the ex-PM after Partygate report
Committee report exposes as hollow his claims that 'all ­guidance was followed in No10' during 2020’s illegal lockdown parties, first revealed by the Mirror in December 2021
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'Doctors strikes underline that we must finish this fag-end of a government'
The dispute that drags on is a stain on ministers who spend more time on Tory psychodramas than governance, says Paul Routledge
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'Boris Johnson is a mendacious twister who creates his own distorted reality'
MPs on a Tory majority Privileges Committee, Westminster’s wider Conservative tribe and Rishi Sunak all know the truth about the disgraced former PM, writes Kevin Maguire
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'Boris Johnson's behaviour is an insult to all those who followed Covid rules'
His feeble attempt to present himself as the victim of a miscarriage of justice and his Trump-style diatribe at the committee only compound the agony
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Covid Inquiry: Day 3 round-up as future pandemic plans branded inadequate
The Covid inquiry will next week hear from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and former prime minister David Cameron, as well as Sir Chris Whitty and former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance
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Six reasons why it's finally all over for shameless Boris Johnson
After being a backbench MP, a Shadow Minister, a two-term London Mayor, Foreign Secretary, Tory leader and Prime Minister, Boris Johnson's political career finally looks to be in tatters
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Top Labour politicians pay tribute to Glenda Jackson who has died aged 87
Senior figures from Keir Starmer's party recalled their time working with the double Oscar-winning actress, who had a successful second career as a respected parliamentarian
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'Boris Johnson will go down in history as the liar in chief'
'Boris Johnson has exploded with a vast stream of incoherent nonsense, like a volcano spewing out lava... More lies, more evasions, more refusal to accept responsibility," says Sir Chris Bryant
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8 bombshells in Privileges Committee report into Boris Johnson's Partygate lies
MPs said some of his denials and explanations for lockdown bashes were 'so disingenuous' that they were clearly deliberate attempts to mislead Parliament and the Committee in its inquiries
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Boris Johnson faced a 90-day Commons ban - how it compares to other punishments
The Commons Privileges Committee tore apart Boris Johnson's claims that no rules were broken in No10 during the pandemic - and said he had misled Parliament on multiple occasions
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Disgraced Boris Johnson did mislead Parliament on Partygate and faced 90-day ban
The panel of seven MPs has finally published its long-awaited report in Boris Johnson's Partygate 'lies', 14 months after it began its probe into whether the former Prime Minister misled Parliament
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Voters demand puppy smuggling crackdown after Tories scrap new law
Campaigners have blasted the Government for scrapping the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill - even though ministers insist parts of the legislation will still be introduced
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'Jeremy Hunt's economic policies are hurting - there's no sign of them working'
As a result of the Conservative’s mismanagement of the economy, millions of households are paying higher mortgage and rental bills
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Dis Life: Travel safety for Disabled people is on the wrong side of the tracks
The rail industry is looking to cut staffing even further, which will mean less staff on platforms and potentially almost none at all in ticket offices
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Austerity chiefs David Cameron and George Osborne face Covid Inquiry next week
The former Prime Minister and his Chancellor are understood to be on the Covid Inquiry witness list next week, where they will likely face questions on how brutal Tory cuts undermined the NHS, social care and welfare state
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Peers urged to back ban on trophy hunting imports and ignore conservation claims
An open letter seen by the Mirror calls on the House of Lords to disregard arguments that banning imports of souvenirs will harm conservation efforts in Africa
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Candidate hoping to replace Boris Johnson says voters 'sick' of Tory psychodrama
Labour's Danny Beales insisted voters are 'desperate' for a full-time MP as he declared that the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election is a chance for a 'fresh start'
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Boris Johnson 'must have known' he had broken lockdown rules, report will find
The Privileges Committee is expected to conclude that the former PM deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown-busting gatherings in Downing Street