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Disgraced former Health Secretary Matt Hancock scrambled to save his political career in the hours after footage of him kissing aide Gino Coladangelo during the Covid pandemic

The party has long been over for cake-guzzling former Prime Minister Boris Johnson after he undermined the trust of the British public and totally trashed political standards

Ex-PM Boris Johnson 'knew of law breaches' because he was THERE as MPs probing whether he lied to Parliament give damning verdict and new bashes come to light

Brian Reade says Matt Hancock's WhatsApp fiasco just confirms how incompetent the Tory Government - and he himself - were during the Covid-19 pandemic

Preet Kaur Gill, Britain’s first Sikh MP, said she was left with no choice but to call the police. She is also forced to have a bodyguard at her surgery meetings

Leaked messages appear to show former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and shamed ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock were at loggerheads during the pandemic over the extent of Tory lockdown measures

The former PM claimed it was 'surreal' the Commons Privileges Committee, which is investigating him, will use evidence from Ms Gray given she is poised to become Keir Starmer’s chief of staff. Labour dismissed the comments as 'ludicrous'

GMB general secretary Gary Smith called on the Government to look at how President Joe Biden is planning to boost American manufacturing by switching to green power

An unrepentant Boris Johnson insisted there was 'no evidence' to show he knew rules were being broken with lockdown bashes - despite the Commons Privileges Committee saying it should have been 'obvious' to him

The finding comes after grocery price inflation soared to 17.1% - adding £811 to households’ annual shopping bills - and with the Government under pressure to do more to help hard-up households

Conservative MPs spent the day and night at the Fairmont Windsor Park, the same hotel where Rishi Sunak agreed his new Brexit deal European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday.

The grieving families of teenage sweethearts Liam Curry and Chloe Rutherford want the government to change the law so they can register the deaths of their children

The hippos, which are territorial and weigh up to three tonnes, have been declared a toxic invasive species because they have no natural predator in Colombia and pose a biodiversity risk because their faeces changes the composition of rivers

YEAH RIGHT, says Fleet Street Fox. From Megxit to Sue Gray's Partygate report, Britain has to fix its mistakes

A 24-page dossier by the Commons Privileges Committee lays out a string of questions Boris Johnson will have to answer when he is summoned to give evidence in a live showdown in the week of March 20

It won't earn him diddly squat, but Jeremy Clarkson has apparently been voted the sexiest man in the UK - and he's not the only surprise name on the list

One of the family members of a man killed in the Omagh bombing has said the recent shooting of DCI John Caldwell has thrust the town in Northern Ireland 'back into the dark ages.' Michael Gallagher, who knows Caldwell, condemned the attack

Neil Coyle, who lost the Labour whip after the complaints, faces the sanctions after a report from the Independent Expert Panel, which considers allegations of misconduct by MPs

Furious Tories have tried to claim Partygate inquisitor Sue Gray's move to work for Labour reveals a plot to oust Boris Johnson - but Today programme presenter Nick Robinson pointed out she 'didn't deliver the suitcases of alcohol' to No10

Mark Thurston said the impact of inflation on the HS2 high-speed rail project over the past year has been ‘significant’ as bosses and the Government consider delaying to curb costs

Matt Hancock's leaked WhatsApp messages reportedly reveal that plans were being drawn up for tougher lockdowns that would ruin Christmas for many, on the same night as a Downing Street party

Leaked WhatsApp messages reveal that the former Health Secretary was keen to crack down on those breaking Covid lockdown rules just days before a party was held at 10 Downing Street

Fiona Bruce asked energy minister Graham Stuart whether he found leaked WhatsApp messages from his former colleagues 'embarrassing' on last night's BBC Question Time

The only people who failed to appreciate this were Matt Hancock and the then Education Secretary Gavin Williamson who, like silly schoolboys, sent puerile messages in which Williamson accused teachers of being lazy

Matt Hancock's leaked messages reveal that ministers and officials made jokes about people arriving in the UK during the Covid pandemic being locked up in quarantine hotels