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Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied any offences over the refurbishment of his Downing Street home but faces claims his government is “mired in sleaze, cronyism and scandal”. Mr Johnson’s insistence he has not broken any laws came shortly after the Electoral Commission confirmed there are “reasonable grounds” to suspect an “offence or offences” may have occurred relating to the Downing Street work, as it launched a formal investigation into the matter. Labour le...

SHARE Britain's Electoral Commission launched a formal investigation into the funding of renovations to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Downing Street flat . The watchdog said on Wednesday that there "were reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence or offences may have occurred". Read More The inquiry was announced an hour before Mr Johnson faced MPs at an ill-tempered Prime Minister's Questions during which he was challenged over who payed for the renovations. He was also forced to explain a reported remark that he would rather "let bodies pile high" than order another Covid-19 lockdown....

The Labour leader quizzed the Prime Minister over the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat.

Boris Johnson refuses to deny flat refurb loan from Tory donor Andrew Woodcock © Provided by The Independent Boris Johnson repeatedly dodged questions in parliament over who initially paid for the £88,000 refurbishment of his Downing Street flat, failing to deny that some of the money came from Tory donor Lord Brownlow. In a stormy session of prime minister’s questions just an hour after the Electoral Commission announced it was launching an investigation into the “cash for curtains” allegations, Keir Starmer asked the PM four times to say who originally paid the cost...

Matt Hancock to give Downing Street press conference at 5pm - watch live Downing Street tight-lipped over funding of Boris Johnson's flat refurbishment Queen's former private secretary to be Boris Johnson’s new adviser James Dyson: BBC twisted truth over my links to the Tories Is BBC being used as a pawn over Boris Johnson row? Coronavirus latest news: NHS app will become your vaccine passport Subscribe to The Telegraph for a month-long free trial Boris Johnson will have the final say on whether he breached the ministerial code over the Downing Street flat, Number 10 has revea...