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Parties in Downing Street weren’t just the three or four we know about – they were a regular event throughout lockdown, particularly on a Friday…

SEXUAL harrassment and bullying complaints against Scottish ministers will be investigated outside the Government from next month to avoid a repeat…

An inquiry is currently taking place into the alleged No 10 parties, with the investigation being led by Sue Gray. Let’s find out more about her...

No10 quiet over Carrie Symondss £200,000 Downing Street flat refurb David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline and Simon Walters for the Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Downing Street today dodged questions over the Prime Ministers refurbishment of his official residence after it was revealed he fears the final bill for Carrie Symondss lavish makeover could be as high as £200,000.  A spokesman for Mr Johnson refused to comment on speculation...

Downing Street today dodged questions over the Prime Ministers refurbishment of his official residence after it was revealed he fears the final bill for Carrie Symondss lavish makeover could be as high as £200,000.  A spokesman for Mr Johnson refused to comment on speculation today after he told aides of his financial worries in crisis meetings on how to pay for his fiancees refurbishment. Mr Johnson is believed to have mooted setting up a charity to pay for the extensive work to the accommo...

The first thing i saw coming back from the airport was this announcement that hes going to withdraw immediately from syria. i have done a lot of work since then. i can assure you, it was done not based on sound military advice, all the advice the president received from his national security team was its not time to withdraw from syria. that isis will come back. they have not been defeated. most importantly, the kurds who have helped us so much, been such good allies, are now exposed to be taken...

Overseeing robert muellers russia investigation. jessica schneider has the details. >> we know the acting attorney general, his he has consulting with ethics officials at the doj ever since he was appointed in november. theyre telling him he does not need to recuse himself from overseeing the special counsels russia investigation. now, whitaker has been in these ongoing talks, and it is expected that whitaker will inform senators later today that the ethics team has cleared him to oversee the sp...

Probably smart. its 22,200, very small footprint. i think most americans know when you get somebody to help you like the kurds, you owe to the team to see it through. theres not a groundswell of support. senator paul is an outlier. i like him, but i think his view of the world is dangerous. and his world view, we just leave everybody alone, theyll leave us alone. that didnt work in afghanistan. we had no troops, not even an ambassador in afghanistan, on september 10th. we got hit anyway on septe...

Team. i have advised him to. but what we can do in congress is hold presidents accountable. theres a historical record that the decision to withdraw from iraq was not based on sound military advice. then all of the concerns came true. well make the same record in syria. and president trump has done a lot of good things on national security. this dramatically undercuts those good things. >> senator, is something bad going to have to happen before that backlash really sets in? >> thats a really go...

The worst is definitely yet to come. i talked to the secretary mattis yesterday. the traffic, the chatter out there, is pretty devastating. when the president suggests that assad and iran and russia are not happy, they are very happy. the biggest winner of this could be the iranians to have a corridor now from tehran all the way to lebanon. they could use the space we occupy to get more weapons to hezbollah. its certainly putting the kurds at risk. we see a lot of chatter. so yes, he could. and ...