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...Downing Street said it was for China to comment on its attendance of the summit....
...Crisis chief executive Matt Downie said draconian laws to criminalise the use of tents would do nothing to tackle rough sleeping but risked pushing vulnerable people further into destitution....
...Dorries, one of Johnson’s staunchest allies, has declared she intends to reveal the “political dark arts” behind a so-called “plot” to force the former prime minister from Downing Street in summer 2022 in...
...He said the “culture of fear” emanating from Downing Street had “essentially” been created by Cummings, a “malign actor”....
...Sajid Javid, health secretary between 2021 and 2022, on Wednesday said Downing Street was “dysfunctional” and that Johnson was “not in charge” in the run-up to March 2020....
...Last week, former health secretary Matt Hancock said imposing a lockdown three weeks earlier “would have saved many, many lives”....
...On May 7, Cummings warned Johnson that the “incompetence” of Matt Hancock, then health secretary, was “killing” people....
...The inquiry has also seen private messages that showed Matt Hancock, the then health secretary, had also been highly critical of the scheme....
...Boris Johnson’s Downing Street shake-up needs to succeed — and fast Boris Johnson recasts UK government with big cabinet shake-up Matt Hancock resigns as UK health secretary The UK Prime Minister and...
...The inquiry heard that Matt Hancock, who was health secretary when the pandemic began, displayed “nuclear levels of confidence” and would regularly tell the cabinet there were plans in place to deal with...
...Rishi Sunak’s director of communications has left Downing Street after just 10 months in the role as a shake-up of the prime minister’s backroom team followed this week’s mini Cabinet reshuffle....
...Former health secretary Matt Hancock recently told the inquiry that a lockdown three weeks earlier “would have saved many, many lives”....
...Perhaps he was swayed by the success that Matt Hancock had in restoring his reputation by downing healthy portions of kangaroo gonad in the Australian jungle....
...Matt Hancock was not fully in charge of the NHS in March 2020, and the NHS quangocracy was bewildering even to those who worked in it....
...In a WhatsApp message to Lee Cain, then Downing Street’s head of communications, in October 2020, weeks before England’s second lockdown, Johnson wrote: “I must say I have been slightly rocked by some of...
...Downing Street said this month that the conference would bring together government, academics and leading AI companies “to build on developing the regulatory guardrails we need for the safe and responsible...
...Matt Wrack, who leads the Fire Brigades Union, sums up a view widely held among those on the left when he says that Starmer should be more concerned with redressing imbalances in the workplace by restoring...
...“Downing Street and CCHQ will be perturbed by the continuing run of men being selected in the safer constituencies,” he wrote on the website....
...Fellow centrist Matt Warman was also due to use a platform at a fringe event on Monday to tell activists: “When we’ve won elections it’s from the centre ground.”...
...State department spokesperson Matt Miller said if the Rafah crossing was open then “we will be trying to get out the American citizens who are in Gaza”....
...Meanwhile, Downing Street reiterated the need for MPs to focus on the interests of their constituents....
...I did dip my toe into I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here during Matt Hancock’s turn....
...Matt Sinclair, a director at Deloitte and former head of the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group, will be Truss’s chief economic adviser....
...We know that Matt Hancock himself warned against it as it was going on. He said it was creating some real problems....
...Lucy FisherI’m really interested to hear your thoughts on what emerged, not only with your journalism hat on, but also your insights given you have operated at some of the highest levels in Downing Street...
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