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Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:51:49 GMTBoris Johnson news – live: MPs claim £1.3m in rent while letting homes as sleaze row puts Labour ahead in poll
Latest updates as they happen
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:22:33 GMTNearly 1,000 migrants cross English Channel to reach UK in new daily record
Over 100,000 people have arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean so far this year
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:21:58 GMTRevealed: 17 MPs claim £1.3m in rent from taxpayer – while letting their own homes
Exclusive: Five ministers have put rent on expenses while collecting on homes they own in London
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:14:53 GMTBoris Johnson faces legal challenge over backing for Priti Patel on bullying claims
Judicial review on PM’s decision to support home secretary takes place next week
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:57:37 GMTMeghan aide ‘regretted’ not giving evidence in High Court privacy battle
Court of Appeal set to rule on newspaper’s bid to overturn privacy judgement
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:46:22 GMTPrince Charles’ former aide quits as charity boss over cash-for-honours claims
Clarence House said Prince Charles had “no knowledge” of his former right-hand man’s alleged behaviour
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:13:44 GMTBrexit: EU to tell Frost talks doomed unless he drops European court demand
Talks aimed at avoiding a trade war take place in ‘gloomy atmosphere’
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:00:33 GMTNew Home Office policy risks ‘driving human trafficking victims underground’, experts warn
Government’s own modern slavery tsar says she is ‘extremely concerned’ about plans to grant immigration enforcement teams power to make decisions on trafficking cases
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 05:37:22 GMTTory MP who said Marcus Rashford should stick to his day job has second job
Backbencher working hundreds of hours a year away from parliament
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:33:39 GMTRemembrance Sunday 2021: Queen to attend service at Cenotaph
The 95-year-old monarch will miss General Synod next week though
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:27:50 GMTGovernment rejects controversial plan for tulip-shaped skyscraper in London
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan say building would be ‘little more than a concrete lift shaft with a viewing gallery at the top’
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:29:50 GMTRoyal British Legion suspends sales of ‘Pull The Pin’ commemorative rum on Armistice Day
Product is made by Devon firm run by ex-forces veteran who wanted to thank charity for support
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:25:56 GMTBoris Johnson risks Thatcher-style felling by own MPs if he doesn’t fix sleaze, Tory grandee warns
Party notoriously ruthless when ‘prime ministers are deemed to have outlived their usefulness’, Malcolm Rifkind warns
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:22:30 GMTGeoffrey Cox’s other controversies, from foxhunting to welfare cuts and climate change
Ex-attorney general advised PM proroguing parliament was legal and voted against steps to curb the climate crisis
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:17:21 GMTLondon’s Night Tube drivers to stage strike on reopening date in row over staffing
Union says drivers’ work-life balance under threat
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:02:52 GMTNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband says meeting with UK minister ‘depressing’, as talks with Iran stall
Senior Iranian official in London for talks over potential release of British national
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:43:50 GMT‘Dilapidated’ child prison to remain open as government ‘secure school’ plans delayed for another year
Anger as ‘chaotic’ G4S-run jail to remain open and plans for alternative facility postponed until 2023
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:15:47 GMTCop26: Johnson’s hopes of breakthrough climate deal slipping away
Prime minister urged to return to Glasgow to get deal over line
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:05:21 GMTMP accused of getting drunk on Armistice Day flight says medication was to blame
‘I wasn’t counting. It was less than five drinks,’ Charlotte Nichols reportedly says
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:15:31 GMTTory MP denies faking visits in his constituency after posting same photo three times
‘This is not the first time I have reused a photo when forgetting to take one and I am sure it will not be the last,’ Don Valley MP says
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:50:31 GMTKeir Starmer denies Jeremy Corbyn blocked his plan for second job with law firm
Spotlight falls on Labour leader’s past outside earnings – including almost £10,000 advising government of Gibraltar
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:43:39 GMTAfghan baby born without doctor in London hotel room as thousands of evacuees still ‘living in limbo’
Incident shows ‘cold reality’ facing Afghan evacuees, says charity worker
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:33:06 GMTSlovakia rejects proposed law restricting access to abortion
Lawmakers in Slovakia have narrowly rejected proposed legislation that would have tightened access to abortion in the European Union country
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:06:52 GMTTax domestic flights to fund rail fare cuts, public say
But government has been making rail fares more expensive while cutting taxes on domestic flights
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:05:58 GMTUK an ‘enabler’ of corruption, Nigerian anti-sleaze tsar tells Boris Johnson in stinging rebuke
‘Global elite loot their countries and rush to London’, prime minister told – as broken promise attacked
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:54:37 GMTMeghan Markle news: Final arguments heard in Mail on Sunday appeal over letter publication
Follow the latest updates from the Court of Appeal
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:54:01 GMTHow did the Thames recover from being a ‘dead’ river to homing venomous sharks?
London’s storied waterway now home to unexpected collection of fish, mammals and birds and thriving salt marshes but was once a stinking open sewer rife with cholera
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:01:32 GMTCop26: Negotiators face ‘monumental challenge’ as summit running out of time, says Sharma
Fears that horse-trading in final days will scrub progress on fossil fuels from agreement
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:33:07 GMTBooster jab will be needed for Covid pass in future, Sajid Javid hints
Health secretary suggests France-style crackdown on the cards, saying ‘We will have to look at what constitutes vaccination’
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:30:19 GMTSudanese general tightens grip on power, 2 weeks after coup
Sudan’s top general has re-appointed himself as head of the army-run interim governing body, a sign that he is tightening his grip on the country, two weeks after he led a coup against civilian leaders
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:24:33 GMTTiernan Darnton: Student who admitted he killed grandmother in truth or dare game found guilty
‘I have a secret I haven’t told anyone. I may have killed someone,’ Tiernan Darnton told friends
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:17:38 GMTUber increases London fares for first time since 2017
Passengers travelling to airports at peak times will also face an additional 15 per cent charge
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:15:42 GMTStop stalling on MP second jobs restrictions, government’s standards chief warns
Standards committee recommended partial MP jobs ban as far back as 2018
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:56:43 GMTMan charged with terror offence after wearing T-shirt ‘promoting banned group’
Feras al-Jayoosi, 34, is accused over incidents in Swindon and Golders Green, in London
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:53:53 GMTMan who was told he could keep £110k put in his account ordered to pay it back
He was wrongly advised the money was his to keep before it was taken back in addition to £6,000 of his own money
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:01:43 GMTGovernment appoints ex-Tory advisor married to Tory MP to help pick media regulator
Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is No.10’s pick to chair Ofcom
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:37:35 GMTCCTV image released after woman raped in Camden alleyway
‘Someone knows who this man is and we need you to come forward,’ says investigating officer
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:48:36 GMTAfghan girls from youth football team who escaped Taliban ‘haven’t got any’ home in UK
Exclusive: ‘They need just not a new home but they need a new home where they can continue to be a team,’ says Human Rights Watch
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:24:54 GMT‘A farce’: Jamaica charter flight leaves UK with four people on board after dozens found to have right to stay
There is renewed concern about the efficacy of UK deportation policy as many Jamaican nationals were taken off the flight at the eleventh hour
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:09:52 GMTGeoffrey Cox timeline: How the Tory MP became embroiled in second jobs scandal
Ex-attorney general among wealthiest MPs in Commons and has made millions from carrying out legal work alongside his parliamentary duties
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:52:28 GMTGeoffrey Cox ‘rents out flat taxpayers helped fund while claiming for second home’
Sir Geoffrey claims £1,900 per month for accommodation costs
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:45:07 GMTSchool bus carrying dozens of children overturns in Lincolnshire
Police said no serious injuries but one child in hospital with broken arm
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:36:25 GMTTory MP defends extra 30 hours work a week for councils, saying the roles are ‘complementary’
Ben Bradley said his job as a council leader benefited his constituents and condemned MP’s who lobby on behalf of private business
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:24:34 GMTMail on Sunday’s legal battle against ruling over Meghan Markle letter enters final day
Publisher’s lawyers focus on witness statement made by Duchess of Sussex’s former aide
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:19:06 GMTPfizer ‘fair vaccine distribution claims misleading,’ says Amnesty
Amnesty International has accused Pfizer of prioritising profit over fair vaccine distribution