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By hosting the event in person, Trump has raised questions over whether the typically large delegations that accompany leaders to the G7 would be attending, what physical distancing measures would be in place and how journalists from around the world would report on the summit. … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson may meet Donald Trump at G7 summit in US next month

Speaking to the Commons Committee on the Future Relationship with the EU, Britain's chief negotiator David Frost said: "The expectation on both sides is that these are done at leader level, and therefore, yes, the Prime Minister would attend." … [Read more...] about Pay up and we will extend Brexit transition, EU tells Boris Johnson

Jeremy Hunt's statement on Dominic Cummings:In a letter to his constituents calling for Cummings to go, Hunt said: 'Having watched the broadcast yesterday, my own view is that what he did was a clear breach of the lockdown rules – coming back into work when he had been with his wife who was ill, driving to Durham instead of staying at home and visiting Barnard Castle. … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson pleads with people to ‘move on’ from Dominic Cummings row and dismisses calls for an official probe as he is grilled by cross-party MPs over his chief aide’s 260-mile trip to Durham

Johnson will think that the session went well. He will think he had the better of the day. He made no concessions on Cummings, whom he managed barely to mention by name. He consistently treated the scandal as the past, going through the motions of saying he understood why it mattered to others but displaying no sign whatever that he understood why. His mantra was to move on, to start talking about the next phases of easing the lockdown, to promise a working tracking and tracing system and lots more shopping opportunities. There will be much more of this in the coming days, not least (though not solely) because it creates new stories and diversions. … [Read more...] about Faced with questions from MPs, Boris Johnson was like a blundering schoolboy

In that revelation lies so much of the huge public disquiet. The government has displayed huge force in trying to rescue Cummings, while showing just how hugely corrupt it is, by ripping up rules to accommodate one associate of the prime minister. The hard-right groupuscule running Britain has exposed how rotten Britain has become.L’etat, c’est Dom et moi. As Danny Kruger wrote to his fellow Conservative MPs last night, “Appreciate the inbox and press are horrific but the PM is signalling that he’s serious … calling for [Cummings] to go is basically declaring no confidence in [the] PM.” You can always judge a man’s priorities by his diary, and this prime minister skipped five Cobra meetings on the coronavirus crisis on the trot, even while finding time to attend a giant fundraising ball for the Conservative party. … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson should be protecting the nation. Instead he’s protecting one man