Theresa May blasts Boris Johnson over foreign aid cut and breaking ‘Global Britain’ promise

Theresa May blasts Boris Johnson over foreign aid cut as she accuses him of failing to deliver on his ‘Global Britain’ promise and warns reduction in funding risks a ‘perfect storm’ of problems Theresa May attacked Boris Johnson over decision to slash foreign aid spending She accused the current PM of failing to deliver on … Read more

Theresa May blasts Boris Johnson over foreign aid cut and breaking ‘Global Britain’ promise

Theresa May blasts Boris Johnson over foreign aid cut as she accuses him of failing to deliver on his ‘Global Britain’ promise and warns reduction in funding risks a ‘perfect storm’ of problems Theresa May attacked Boris Johnson over decision to slash foreign aid spending She accused the current PM of failing to deliver on … Read more

Ministers defend Boris Johnson over failure to sack Matt Hancock

Cabinet ministers rally to defend Boris Johnson over his failure to sack Matt Hancock as Jacob Rees-Mogg says loyalty is the PM’s ‘great strength’ and premiers ‘do better’ if they don’t respond ‘all the time’ to ‘political froth’ Priti Patel denied failing to sack Matt Hancock made Boris Johnson look ‘weak’ She said there had … Read more

The Queen and PM hold first in-person meeting since pandemic

The Queen today expressed her sympathy for Matt Hancock as she welcomed Boris Johnson back to Buckingham Palace for her first in-person weekly audience with the Prime Minister since March last year.  Mr Johnson met with the monarch at the palace after more than a year of conducting the audiences by telephone, with the pair … Read more

Rishi Sunak ‘wants City of London to be excluded from G7 tax crackdown’

Rishi Sunak ‘is pushing for the City of London to be excluded from new global tax crackdown’ despite leading G7 efforts to make big firms pay more G7 finance ministers agreed plan last weekend to introduce global tax changes Plan designed to make big firms pay their fair share of tax where they operate  But … Read more