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January 20, 2022

NHS Chief Warns Against Bonfire Of Covid Rules

Masks won’t be required from next week and work-from-home advice is ending immediately after the prime minister announced the end of plan B rules in England.

3 mins

PM Facing Open Revolt After Top Tory Launches Assault

Boris Johnson is engaged in a desperate fightback to save his political life, after a ferocious attack from one of the Conservatives’ most senior former ministers and the defection of one of its newest MPs failed to fell him.

5 mins

Tory Party Could ‘Die Death Of 1,000 Cuts' If PM Stays On

The Conservative Party is at risk of “dying a death of 1,000 cuts” if MPs do not move to oust Boris Johnson as prime minister, a senior Tory said.

2 mins

The prime minister's chum has delivered a killer blow

There’s no rule that says a prime minister has to resign for knowingly misleading a news reporter in a broadcast clip.

4 mins

Defector unites Tories to help PM survive the week

Defections are the hard currency of politics. Alan Howarth in 1995 was the harbinger of the Labour landslide.

4 mins

Bury constituents appear to welcome Wakeford's shift

Andrea Simpson, the first deputy of Bury’s Labour-led council, has just come out of a morning-long work meeting and has not heard the news. Forty minutes earlier, Christian Wakeford, the Conservative MP for Bury South, stunned the House of Commons when he defected to the reds.

4 mins

The Outspoken Tory MP Who Saw Writing On The Wall

Conservative defector Christian Wakeford won Bury South with a wafer-thin majority of just 402 in 2019 and has been a vocal backbench critic of the PM

3 mins

A Tory ‘crossing the floor' could signal Johnson's end

The dramatic defection of Christian Wakeford from the Conservatives to Labour is fairly easily explained, by close reference to the psephology of his parliamentary seat, Bury South.

3 mins

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