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Wednesday 20 April 2022 6:00 am By: Eliot Wilson Eliot Wilson is co-founder of Pivot Point and a former House of Commons official. Boris Johnson faces a vote on misleading Parliament on Thursday. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Last week epitomised a favourite phrase of political pundits: it was a…

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How are voters reacting to the news that Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been fined for breaking lockdown rules? People in Wakefield may soon be going to be polls in a by-election, which could be triggered after the conviction of the MP Imran Ahmad Khan for sexually assaulting a…

A UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has been decried by NGOs as well as the UN refugee agency, which has criticised the plan to relocate migrants as “contrary to the letter and spirit of the Refugee Convention”. FRANCE 24 spoke to Sciences Po university’s François Gemenne, an…

Media caption, Watch: What has the PM said before about alleged No 10 parties? Boris Johnson is set to apologise for breaking his own lockdown laws when he makes his first statement to MPs since being fined by police. The prime minister is expected to say he did not knowingly…

published : 19 Apr 2022 at 09:45 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson can expect a bruising few days as the House of Commons returns from its Easter break. LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face angry lawmakers Tuesday for the first time since being fined for breaking the law,…

Boris Johnson has given the go-ahead for an investigation into the Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s ministerial interests. Mr Sunak had asked for the inquiry himself after it emerged that his wife Akshata Murty had opted for non-dom status on her tax return, relieving her of the obligation to pay tax on…

Saturday 16 April 2022 2:41 pm Russia has banned top Cabinet members from the country. Russia has banned Boris Johnson from the country, arguing British leadership was “deliberately aggravating the situation around Ukraine”.  The Kremlin said the move to ban the Prime Minister and other senior members of the UK…

The Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda dominates the papers for the second consecutive day. “Inhumane and it and won’t work,” says The Daily Mirror‘s front page, quoting the scheme’s critics which includes an unnamed former Home Office official. The Guardian similarly leads with an assessment of the…

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