✍️"The growing backlash against slick, evasive responses suggests we’ve had enough of spokespeople swerving difficult questions," writes Rosa Silverman
🗣️Volodymyr Zelensky spoke via a pre-recorded video message as he urged crowds at the Somerset festival to “spread the truth about Russia’s war” and warned them “time is priceless and every day is measured in human lives”
🔴The "boyfriend loophole" had long meant that people convicted of domestic abuse could avoid being banned from buying a gun if they were not married to, or living with, their victim
🥔Researchers at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee have successfully “doubled” the amount of vitamin C in a new strain of potato by snipping out sections of its DNA
JK Rowling was the latest victim to fall foul of Vovan and Lexus, a Russian comedy duo known for their prank chats with prominent leaders and public figures
The prospect of summer travel chaos intensified on Friday when London Underground workers voted for a series of strikes that will coincide with the walkout on the railways
✈️Check-in staff at Heathrow Airport have already voted to walk out in a dispute over pay.
Unite the Union has now said 16,000 BA workers, ranging from cabin crew to engineers, could join them
🔴Boris Johnson is facing a new plot to oust him, as Conservative rebels launched a push to change party rules in order to hold another vote on his leadership.
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Tiverton and Honiton was the biggest by-election defeat in history, in terms of the size of majority overturned.
No government has suffered two by-election losses in a single day since 1991.
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🔴The rebels' plans emerged after the Tories suffered a double by-election defeat, with the Liberal Democrats claiming Tiverton and Honiton and Labour regaining the seat of Wakefield
🗣️Three Tory MPs who want Mr Johnson out told The Telegraph they would seek election, promising a rule change.
One said: “We could be heading into a world where the situation is beyond a joke. At that point, you need officers who are willing to say: ‘Enough’s enough’”
❌Under 1922 Committee rules, another vote cannot be held for a year.
However, rebels want that rule scrapped.
The regulations can be changed at any time by a simple majority of 10 out of the 18 senior 1922 Committee figures
🔴Currently, Mr Johnson is protected from another leadership vote for a year, after winning a poll earlier this month – despite 41% of Tory MPs voting for his removal
➡️MPs who want to remove the Prime Minister are seeking election to the 18 most senior posts on the 1922 Committee, which dictates how to conduct confidence votes in Tory party leaders
🔴Boris Johnson is facing a new plot to oust him, as Conservative rebels launched a push to change party rules in order to hold another vote on his leadership
Tory rebels plot next move to oust Boris Johnson
Prime Minister’s enemies to push for control of 1922 Committee in order to hold a second vote of no confidence
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: While trade unionists were manning the picket lines, party's deputy leader sipped champagne and settled down to watch the Marriage of Figaro
🔴Baroness Scotland of Asthal has been re-elected as Secretary General of the Commonwealth, in a blow for the Prime Minister who attempted to have her ousted by backing a rival candidate
🔴On Friday, the UK Health and Security Agency said that the omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 had now taken over as the dominant strains, and had a growth advantage of 35% compared to earlier versions
It was the tete-a-tete that had been the talking point of the week.
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