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...Dropping the policy is one of the first acts of the Truss government and follows discussions between the new prime minister, Brandon Lewis, the new justice secretary, and Sir Robert Buckland, the Wales secretary...
...Sebastian Payne is the FT’s Whitehall editor....
...Boris Johnson in Downing Street tonight to tell him that he should resign as UK prime minister.Two senior Conservative party insiders said that transport secretary Grant Shapps, Northern Ireland secretary Brandon...
...Brandon Lewis, another key Truss backer, becomes justice secretary and lord chancellor, while Simon Clarke was handed the cabinet role of levelling-up secretary....
...sebastian.payne@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Conservative party is like an unfashionable store / From Simon Crosby, Aysgarth, N Yorks, UK...
...Brandon Lewis, Northern Ireland secretary and once a loyal Johnson supporter, said on Thursday morning he was quitting and that the government was no longer being run on the basis of “honesty, integrity...
...Two senior Conservative party insiders said that transport secretary Grant Shapps and Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis would also be in the group....
...Loyal ministers including Shapps, Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, and Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis later told Johnson he should quit before things got worse....
...A group of Johnson loyalists — including Grant Shapps, transport secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, business secretary, and Brandon Lewis, Northern Ireland secretary — planned to urge Johnson to quit before he faced...
...Brandon Lewis, Northern Ireland secretary, on Tuesday likened Johnson’s fine for attending the birthday party in June 2020 to a speeding ticket....
...He has also spoken with Brandon Lewis, UK Northern Ireland secretary, who acknowledged the breach of international law in the House of Commons last week....
...I genuinely could not believe my eyes: Brandon Lewis bringing a donor in to tell us off,” said one MP critical of the prime minister....
...The admission by cabinet minister Brandon Lewis that the government was going to override an international Brexit treaty with the EU relating to Northern Ireland, astonished Tory MPs and caused alarm in...
...Some Tory MPs have privately expressed their displeasure with last week’s House of Commons statement by Brandon Lewis, Northern Ireland secretary, that the legislation would break international law in a...
...A few hours after the FT broke the story of Sir Jonathan’s resignation, the Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis confirmed the government’s legal position, telling parliament that the new legislation...
...Brandon Lewis, former Home Office minister, was appointed Northern Ireland secretary, and Alok Sharma, former international development secretary, becomes business secretary....
...Having sacked Julian Smith from the Northern Ireland Office over past Brexit disagreements, Mr Johnson promoted the former security minister Brandon Lewis to take his place, handing him his first cabinet...
...Brandon Lewis, Tory party chairman, said in a statement: “Successive rounds of voting [by MPs] will take place until a final choice of candidates to put to a vote of all party members is determined....
...Brandon Lewis, chairman of the Conservatives, stressed that Mr Grieve had not yet been deselected....
...Brandon Lewis, Tory chairman, told cabinet that the party’s best hope of avoiding a wipeout was to not talk about Brexit and to focus instead on “council tax, potholes and bin collection”....
...At a cabinet meeting last week, party chief executive Sir Mick Davis and chairman Brandon Lewis outlined the poor state of the Tories’ finances and how ill-prepared the party is for either a snap general...
...“Brandon [Lewis, party chairman] wants a much longer campaign with regional hustings, that will favour long-shot candidates,” said one ministerial aide....
...Mr Hammond floated the idea, but Brandon Lewis, Tory chairman, gave a bleak assessment of the party’s finances and electoral prospects....
...Additional reporting by Sebastian Payne...
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