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Believes will prove he didnt knowingly mislead parliament over partygate allegations has been published. in it, mrjohnson accepts that he misled parliament when he said covid rules had been followed in downing street but insists the statements were made in good faith. mrjohnson will be questioned by lawmakers tomorrow. in but will be televised hearings. in the uk, misleading parliament is seen as a serious breach of the parliamentary rules. im joined now by lord robert kerslake, former head of t...

Senior British Parliamentarians in Kazakhstan as part of a human rights investigation have been blocked by authorities from meeting Zhanbolat Mamay.

5% of them were not of mental capacity to realise that you had to put your details in a template letter and they still had their money deliberately ripped off them. and ifound that made me angry then. and it makes me angry now. i can see, i can hear the rage. and rage with what? because its just not fair. its not right. its not a proper way to behave. the answer i can hear people shouting at the radio or the telly is get involved. now, you did want a peerage at one stage. yeah. yeah, ijust got t...

And rage with what? because its just not fair. its not right. its not a proper way to behave. the answer i can hear people shouting at the radio or the telly is get involved. now, you did want a peerage at one stage. yeah. yeah, ijust got turned down again a couple of weeks ago. actually turned down. yes. for cross—bench? yes. by who? by the house of lords appointments commission. do you know why? yes, i do. and i was much more annoyed the last time because i did this really silly thing and i ...

There are other ways i think that independence can have impacts and you mentioned the one teal independent who was in parliament through the last and they manage to elevate climate to being the top issue as we went into this election and obviously that was helped by things like cop 26 when there was a huge debate about australia�*s stands so i think they have taken a small target approach to climate policy because it�*s been a weapon eyes in this country for so long. now they have a cross be...

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has talked tough on the economy, vowing to keep the Coalition’s stage three tax cuts while refusing to negotiate with the Greens.

Listen to me about why she is opposed. what worries me about this bill is its very widely drawn and its very vaguely worded and it really uses noise for the first time as a way for police to decide whether you or i are criminals. it actually extends even to one—person protests, so if you or i wanted to sit on a street corner shouting, the police now have very widely drawn powers to decide whether we are causing what they call in the bill "serious annoyance or serious inconvenience". now, that ...

Are probably good on that so, no. it harks back to those wonderful images of the royal yacht britannia and before that king edward vii conducting his royal, kingly diplomacy around the world, but those days are past. this isnt going to be a royal yacht britannia and i honestly dont see how it fits into promotion of modern, high—tech britain. that was a cross bench appear and a former ambassador to france amongst many otherjob former ambassador to france amongst many other job titles former amb...

And welcome back to day two of the CBI’s Urban Revival conference. When I came to the UK from India in the early 1980’s for my further education, Britain was known as the ‘sick man of Europe’. And our cities were quite frankly pretty run down. With some even down and out. Fast-forward to today and so many of those cities are far more vibrant, happening, and attractive places to live, work and invest in. London is the greatest of the world’s great cities. And whether you go to Birmingh...

Because the van is very narrow inside. we heard its 17 inches from bench to cross bench. and he said that if he got in there in a seat belt that his gun would be exposed to any prisoner he was transporting and he believed that was a risk. he did say in the police academy he was taught that you were supposed to seat belt somebody in. but when he wept out for field training never once was there any explanation or to seat belt a prisoner inside the transport van. he said in essence, he didnt see it...