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...Liz Truss, Johnson’s successor as premier, earned more than £300,000 through speeches last year alone....
...He said his party would be pushing for a new trade deal with the EU to replace the “appalling” one signed by Johnson when he was prime minister....
...The letter was co-authored by Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull North, and Sir Peter Bottomley, Conservative MP for Worthing West....
...Special thanks to Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson. Cheryl Brumley is the global head of audio. Thanks for listening. See you next week....
...“I haven’t removed any WhatsApps from my phone,” Johnson said....
...Lucy FisherAnd we’re also joined by the FT’s Anna Gross. Hi, Anna. Anna GrossHi, Lucy....
...Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson has dismissed claims made during the Covid inquiry that senior officials’ characterisation of his leadership as incompetent was “extraordinary”, arguing that similar...
...Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson pointed out that Home Office estimates for redeveloping two former RAF stations to house asylum seekers — Wethersfield in Essex and Scampton in Lincolnshire — had leapt from...
...Starmer will on Thursday accuse the government of failing to deliver on its flagship pledge at the 2019 general election to “level up” England’s regions, which was made by the then prime minister Boris Johnson...
...Last month, it heard that senior advisers to Johnson recommended the move on March 14....
...Boris Johnson said Covid-19 was not escalated to him as “something of truly national concern” before late February 2020, as he defended his decision not to chair any Cobra meetings until March....
...Boris Johnson said that he “was not aware” that people were not willing to work in his government because of the atmosphere and relationships in play....
...“I just don’t think the political will is there,” Johnson said....
...Lord Jo Johnson, a former Conservative minister for higher education, said that while recent reforms to the student loan system had saved the Treasury nearly £3bn a year, universities that hit performance...
...“The tragedy is that we were operating on a fallacious inductive logic on previous worst case scenarios,” said Johnson....
...Former prime minister Boris Johnson told the Covid inquiry that the Treasury department gave him an adequate steer on the balance between economic considerations and public health during the pandemic....
...Boris Johnson was shown a note at the Covid inquiry written by his private secretary in late February 2020 that summarised the former prime minister’s view that the “biggest damage” would be caused by an...
...Asked whether he believed government decisions led to more deaths during the pandemic, Boris Johnson told the Covid inquiry: “I can’t give you the answer to that question, I’m not sure.”Johnson also disputed...
...Asked whether he would have implemented a lockdown earlier had he not received that advice, Johnson said he could not say we “would have gone earlier”....
...She built a fearsome reputation as an investigator, having headed Whitehall’s internal probe into “Partygate” under former prime minister Boris Johnson, a scandal that led to more than 100 fines being issued...
...Boris Johnson conceded that officials did not take seriously enough the scientific evidence being presented about the infectiousness and lethality of Covid-19 in the early stages....
...His diary entry continued to say that Johnson “looked broken” and had “head in hands a lot”....
...When asked whether it was a concern that Rufo framed the Beacon’s reporting as part of a political strategy, Johnson declined to comment....
...However, Dame Diana Johnson, the Labour chair of the home affairs select committee, described the figures as “staggering” and said they “raise serious questions about how this can be cost effective, even...
...YouGov said the poll had been commissioned by the anonymous donors but their point of contact was Lord David Frost, Johnson’s former Brexit minister, and another critic of Sunak....
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