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
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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
The Liaison Committee includes William Wragg, who has said it was 'humiliating and degrading' to see ministers put out agreed lines in defence of Mr Cummings, and Caroline Nokes, who has informed her party whips there could not be 'wriggle room' for some people when it comes to lockdown rules. … [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
Boris Johnson should be protecting the nation. Instead he’s protecting one man
The scandal that today rightly roars around Cummings and Johnson is nothing compared with the their gigantic failure on Covid-19. Both men must know that their real reckoning is still to come. Those Westminster bubble descriptions of two “political geniuses” leave out what a mess they’ve made in government, on everything from suspending parliament to Brexit deals. Get past the 20,000-word blogposts and the three-word slogans – Take Back Control, Get Brexit Done – and all they have is a talent for self-preservation and media manipulation. It gets them into power, but leaves them no clue what to do with it. … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson should be protecting the nation. Instead he’s protecting one man
Boris Johnson refuses to sack Dominic Cummings over Durham trip despite Tory civil war breaking out
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said: “The public have made so many sacrifices and this polling clearly shows people think there cannot be one rule for senior government officials and one for everyone else. … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson refuses to sack Dominic Cummings over Durham trip despite Tory civil war breaking out
Faced with questions from MPs, Boris Johnson was like a blundering schoolboy
No 10 will say he was the first of the day, and so he hardly matters. But Watling’s turn against Cummings is important for two reasons. First, because he based it squarely on what Johnson said - and didn’t say - to the liaison committee. So it is a reminder that the prime minister is continuing to lose allies for new reasons. And, second, because Watling is the MP for Clacton, one of the signature Brexiter seats – the old Douglas Carswell seat, its electorate mostly white, working class and disproportionately old. Clacton is a “blue wall” place. Watling’s defection tells Johnson that one of key things about the Cummings affair is that it risks losing some of Brexit’s most loyal battalions on the one rule for us, another rule for the toffs principle. … [Read more...] about Faced with questions from MPs, Boris Johnson was like a blundering schoolboy
