The Tories are seeking to turn the vote on July 20 to choose a new MP, after Boris Johnson quit, as a “referendum on Sadiq Khan’s Ulez”. Responding to his selection on Thursday night, Mr Tuckwell said: “I’m honoured to be selected to represent the area I have served sinceContinue Reading
T he new leader of Plaid Cymru is to be officially announced at a press conference on Friday. Rhun ap Iorwerth, who represents Ynys Mon (Anglesey) in the Senedd, is expected to be named as successor. It follows the resignation of Adam Price last month after a report found aContinue Reading
T he fallout from a scathing report which found Boris Johnson lied to MPs over partygate has left Rishi Sunak with a battle to hold his warring Tory party together. The Commons will vote on Monday on the Privileges Committee’s report, which recommended that Mr Johnson should have faced aContinue Reading
UFC star Conor McGregor is facing an accusation that he sexually assaulted a woman in an arena restroom just after Game 4 of the NBA Finals in Miami, TMZ reported Thursday. Through her attorney, the woman sent demand letters to the fighter, the NBA and the Miami Heat seeking aContinue Reading
T ensions have risen further in the Tory party after MPs were granted a vote on whether to approve the findings of the damning report into Partygate which found Boris Johnson committed “repeated contempts” of Parliament. Mr Johnson was told he faced a three-month suspension from Parliament for deliberately misleadingContinue Reading
B oris Johnson committed “repeated contempts” of Parliament by deliberately misleading MPs with his partygate denials before being complicit in a campaign of abuse and intimidation, a cross-party investigation found on Thursday. Branding him the first former prime minister to have ever lied to the Commons, the Privileges Committee recommendedContinue Reading
It is now many months since people started to warn me about the intentions of the Privileges Committee. They told me that it was a kangaroo court. They told me that it was being driven relentlessly by the political agenda of Harriet Harman, and supplied with skewed legal advice –Continue Reading
A murder investigation has been launched after a woman was found dead in Dublin. The woman’s body was discovered in the early hours of Thursday morning at a house in Raheny. A man aged in his 50s has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is currently detained at aContinue Reading
A strike by junior doctors in England will continue on Thursday as new figures showed that more than half a million appointments and procedures have been postponed due to industrial action since December. Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) will mount picket lines outside hospitals across the country forContinue Reading
N adine Dorries has said she will not formally step down as an MP until she gets answers from Downing Street about the decision to deny her a peerage – a move that will prolong the by-election struggle for Rishi Sunak. The former culture secretary insisted it is “absolutely myContinue Reading
