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A WhatsApp message from Boris Johnson urges other top Tories to "calm down" and back the Prime Minister. The Foreign Secretary's message to a closed group of MPs has been confirmed to Sky News. In it, he lists eight points for Conservative politicians to consider. It was apparently sent on Sunday morning, following two days of speculation over whether Theresa May would be able to cling to power and if not, whether Mr Johnson is plotting to make a bid for the top job. On Sunday evening, he told reporters: "I'm going to be backing her - absolutely everybody I'm talking to is going to be backing her as well." Advertisement Mr Johnson also said Theresa May was the "best" person, before quickly correcting himself to say the "best-placed person", to deliver on Brexit. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Boris: 'Absolutely everybody' is backing May In the WhatsApp group, Mr Johnson had told fellow MPs they "need to …

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Boris Johnson will announce on Monday whether all Covid restrictions can be lifted in England on July 5. July 19 is the official date the nation is expected to return to normality – but the PM will study data on cases, hospitalisations and deaths this week to assess whether it is safe to do so earlier. He ‘re-emphasised the Government’s determination to ensure the road map is irreversible’ during a meeting with his Cabinet on Tuesday, according to Downing Street. The PM’s spokesperson said: ‘Monday will be the day when we were deciding on the decision on that and we are closely monitoring the data, ahead of providing a full update. ‘We will set out very clearly to the public, the rationale for the decision we’ve made.’ It’s thought Mr Johnson is likely to stick to his promised ‘terminus date’ of July 19. Senior Government sources said the country is ‘probably not in the place to remove all restrictions on July 5’ on Sunday night. Meanwhile, Business Secretary …

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A majority of the British public want Boris Johnson to pilot a four-day working week with no reduced for pay for workers. According to a new Survation poll, 64% of people across the UK would support the idea, with only 13% being outright against it. It comes after the Scottish Government announced it will launch its own pilot scheme to see if a four-day week improves work-life balance. The most recent poll, commissioned by the 4 Day Week Campaign, suggests support for the idea has grown in Britain since the onset of the Covid pandemic. The UK would be following in the footsteps of Spain if it decided to trial a national level pilot scheme. Microsoft previously saw productivity jump by 40% when it trialled four-day weeks in Japan in 2019. Joe Ryle, a campaigner with the 4 Day Week Campaign, said: ‘The four-day week with no loss of pay is a win-win for workers and employers. ‘The time has come to wave goodbye to the outdated 9-5, 5 days a week model and it’s in …

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Rachel Johnson makes dig at GB News during GMB appearance Sign up for FREE now for the biggest moments from morning TV SUBSCRIBE Invalid email When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Rachel Johnson, the journalist and sister of Prime Minister Boris Johnson made fun of the viewers of GB News in an arrogant jeer on Good Morning Britain . She mocked the channel's viewers as "wingnuts" for supposedly wanting to bring an end to the coronavirus lockdown restrictions as co-hosts Adil Ray and Susanna Reid also joined in on the mockery. But she insisted she was now in favour of easing lockdown and carrying on with normal life. Related articles GB News viewing figures: How channel …

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Brexit: UK 'can be a global trading nation without EU' says MP Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top politics stories again SUBSCRIBE Invalid email When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Without a post-Brexit agreement signed on the matter, up to 3,000 people could lose their driving licences after the French government announced all British expats must exchange their UK licence with a French one. This means some commuters risk losing their jobs while some expats who live in France may be forced to move back to the UK. Although some expats have applied to exchange their licence, the French system has rejected them on the grounds no post-Brexit agreement has been confirmed. …

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Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, has been warned off a pensions tax raid by senior government ministers who have said a radical shake-up would fail to pass Parliament without cross-party support. The Telegraph revealed on Monday that Treasury officials were looking at three major reforms to how pension contributions are taxed to cover heightened pandemic spending. On Monday, there was push-back from some senior Tories to the ideas being pursued, in a reflection of how politically challenging major pensions reforms would prove. One minister with an economic brief stressed that Conservatives should be encouraging people to put into their pension pots rather than making changes that could discourage it. The source told The Telegraph: “Anything to do with pensions, because it’s such a long-term gain, we have to proceed with caution. If we do anything radical you need to build consensus across Parliament.” Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, played down the chance of a …

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On 16 July last year, I made a prediction: the Tony Sewell-led race commission will be a complete and utter farce. I was certain this would be the case. To anyone in the know, a Tony Sewell-led race commission – announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson – was always going to be a more delightful read to racists than to people who have to live under the burden of racism . And that is exactly what has happened. But never in a month of Sundays did I think the Tony Sewell report would overplay their hand to such an extent that they labelled Britain a ‘model’ of racial equality to white majority nations. Putting it mildly, that is an absolutely laughable statement backed up by what would be a laughable report if this was not such a serious matter. When the headline was leaked days beforehand that the report would recommend the disaggregation of the BAME acronym (meaning Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic) I was personally bracing myself for the worst. Yes, the …

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A report on racial disparity in the UK ‘attempted to normalise white supremacy’ and its findings should be rejected by the Government, UN human rights experts have claimed. The UN working group of experts on people of African descent has ‘categorically rejected and condemned’ the report, accusing the commission behind it of ‘shifting the blame for the impacts of racism to the people most impacted by it’. They said it was ‘stunning’ to see a 2021 report that ‘repackages racist tropes and stereotypes into fact, twisting data and misapplying statistics and studies into conclusory findings and ad hominem attacks on people of African descent’. Widespread outrage was sparked after the report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities concluded that issues around race and racism are becoming ‘less important’ and in most cases, are not a driving force behind disparities in the UK. The authors found no evidence of institutional racism in the areas examined – …

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Dominic Cummings has claimed ‘everyone would sell everything and head for the bunker in the hills’ if they knew just how badly the country was being run. In his latest attack on Boris Johnson and his government, the PM’s former top aide said it was ‘impossible to describe how horrific decision-making is at the apex of power’. During an online Q&A session with paying subscribers to his digital newsletter, he added it was mainly ‘the blind leading the blind’. He claimed that No.10 is ‘a branch of the entertainment industry’ and there will be no serious focus on policy until the PM quits. Mr Cummings said: ‘The most valuable commodity in government is focus and the PM literally believes focus is a menace to his freedom to do whatever he fancies today.’ He claimed ‘No.10 lies routinely cos that’s the PM’s personality’. After releasing unflattering WhatsApp messages last week, he took another swipe at health secretary Matt Hancock, who allegedly ‘just says …

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Downing Street has denied that it could scrap the Government’s triple-lock pensions pledge. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said ministers remained ‘fully committed’ to increasing the state pension increasing in line with the highest from inflation, earnings or 2.5% – despite a number of reports suggesting otherwise. Strong recent earnings and inflation growth has sparked fears that sticking to the manifesto commitment will be too expensive for Chancellor Rishi Sunak ’s Treasury, and that the promise could be broken to pay for the coronavirus recovery. Average earnings data shows a rise of 5.6%, while the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) says inflation is 2.1%. That means the process of setting a new state pension for April 2022 is likely to come at a high cost – with reports suggesting the Government faces an added £4 billion pension bill. The earnings data is artificially high because a year ago wages were depressed with many people being furloughed, and …

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