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Colleagues and i must decide on the right course of action that will restore confidence in our government. just trying to read you one or two other lines from that letter. just zooming in on that. she talks about the partygate report. she says, and studying the report carefully, it is painfully clear to me that, given the extent and severity of rule breaking taking place over a 20 month period, it is extremely unlikely that senior leaders were unaware of what was going on. i therefore agree with...

Now, when that sue gray report was published on wednesday spelling out the scale of rule breaking that had gone on in downing street and some other government buildings during covid restrictions, there wasnt a huge swell of rebellion from the conservative benches. there wasnt anything that felt like a threat that was going to topple boris johnson, lets remember, 5a conservative mps submit letters to the 1922 committee, that backbench committee of mps it triggers a vote of confidence in the leade...

With this now need to move on because theyre bigger things such as the cost of living crisis? i made the decision for myself, im not part of a campaign group am not trying to persuade anyone else about what the decision will be. i have weight of the evidence and i came to the view that i dont think the suggestion of the prime minister was unaware of rule breaking was credible. i dont believe he was not aware of the sum of what was going on and that background, i think the consequences are that h...

The report into those lockdown parties. our political correspondent david wallace lockhart is at westminster. david, the prime minister has said he believes he enjoys enough confidence in the cant to continue. ——. —— conservative party. are there are warning signs for the government in some of these comments and in another tory mp submits a letter of no confidence, given the prime minister has published the report and says lessons have been learned? definitely seems to be a drip, drip, d...

And rebuilt in a different country, on a different continent. and thats the dream for abba — to tour the globe, bringing joy to thousands while sitting at home in sweden. colin patterson, bbc news, the abba arena. breaking news, another conservative mp has called for the prime minister at borisjohnson to resign following the soo great report partygate. he isjohn barron and in a statement on his website he said those responsible for setting the rules have a special duty to adhere to them. the m...

Bring you up—to—date on some other major news. the british prime minister borisjohnson is under renewed pressure following the latest allegations by people who attended gatherings in downing street during the covid lockdown. they described a culture in which parties were routine, sometimes crowded affairs and security guards were even laughed at when they tried to stop a party taking place. it has been obtained by bbc panorama programme and it comes as mrjohnson graces himself of the publica...

Hasissued or not? do not forget, once sue gray has issued her report, there is another phase to all of theirs, an investigation by the parliamentary committee and they will look into whether the prime minister has misled parliament, some of the things he said about whether they had been rule breaking or not, denying there had been parties, that is the next phase of all this and lots of tory mps are worried about that because if you are found to have deliberately misled parliament, thatis have de...

Britain has had more fines from the people making the rules. the prime minister and chancellor have been fined by the metropolitan police, whereas durham police, where the alleged incident took place, the rule breaking apparently took place, durham police has said there is no case to answer. the police has been very clear. in 10 downing street rule breaking did happen. in durham, keir starmer did not break the rules. that is the key difference. borisjohnson has lie denied again and canada allies...

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Patches of their constituencies that feel this is overblown. i am an opinion columnist, you quoted me earlier, i say to those who are outrage, outreach comes easily and i am outraged, but i am one of those people, i was also arguing that there are a lot of people in this country for whom outrage and virtuous outrage, even if i think it is justified, virtuous outrage, even if i think it isjustified, is very virtuous outrage, even if i think it is justified, is very off—putting and there is a gr...