Nicola Sturgeon rules out cutting Scotland quarantine to 10 days

Scots could spend longer in coronavirus self-isolation than the English after Nicola Sturgeon said she would not follow any time reduction introduced in England. The First Minister said she had no plans to cut the quarantine period from 14 days amid claims that it could be slashed to 10 days following a row between Mr … Read more

Dominic Cummings should face prosecution for breaking lockdown, says former top prosecutor 

Prosecutor who lost brother to COVID compiles dossier of evidence ‘showing Dominic Cummings should face prosecution for breaking lockdown laws and perverting the course of justice’ Nazir Afzal  submitted  evidence to suggest Dominic Cummings may have lied  The evidence relates to the chief aide’s controversial trip in April to Durham Mr Afzal’s dossier is based … Read more

PM and Sunak ‘at loggerheads over three-year funding package for the military’

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak ‘are at loggerheads over three-year funding package for the military’ as coronavirus crisis hammers government finances Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak said to be clashing over military budget plans PM wants a three-year settlement so defence and security review can go ahead Chancellor insisted financial situation too uncertain during coronavirus … Read more

PM and Sunak ‘at loggerheads over three-year funding package for the military’

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak ‘are at loggerheads over three-year funding package for the military’ as coronavirus crisis hammers government finances Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak said to be clashing over military budget plans PM wants a three-year settlement so defence and security review can go ahead Chancellor insisted financial situation too uncertain during coronavirus … Read more

Pub in locked-down Liverpool is renamed ‘The Three Bellends’

Pub in locked-down Liverpool is renamed ‘The Three Bellends’ with sign featuring faces of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and Matt Hancock The James Atherton in New Brighton, the Wirral, was renamed overnight   Daniel Davies, owner of the bar, changed the name in response to the lockdown Pubs across the area have been forced to close … Read more

TOM BOWER: When Boris Johnson had Covid, his relationship with children was strained

One week into Boris Johnson’s campaign to take over from Theresa May as Prime Minister last year, long-standing differences of opinion among his team erupted.  Lynton Crosby, the strategist who had masterminded his victory as London Mayor, was frozen out by Boris’s partner Carrie Symonds, who was convinced he had orchestrated her recent departure from … Read more

TOM BOWER: When Boris Johnson had Covid, his relationship with children was strained

One week into Boris Johnson’s campaign to take over from Theresa May as Prime Minister last year, long-standing differences of opinion among his team erupted.  Lynton Crosby, the strategist who had masterminded his victory as London Mayor, was frozen out by Boris’s partner Carrie Symonds, who was convinced he had orchestrated her recent departure from … Read more

PM agreed to Dominic Cummings’s ‘terrorist demands’ for total control of No 10’s admin machine

Boris Johnson agreed to Dominic Cummings’s ‘terrorist demands’ for total control of No 10 operation in order to secure his services as an adviser, explosive biography reveals EXCLUSIVE: Tom Bower’s The Gambler serialised in tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday It reveals how the PM cycled to Mr Cummings’ home after becoming Tory leader Among the adviser’s … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: As Spitting Image puppets return… it’s Satireday night lively and dangerous! 

Spitting Image returns to our screens on Saturday. We are promised grotesque new latex puppets of, among many others, Donald Trump, Meghan and Harry, Kim Kardashian, Boris Johnson, Taylor Swift and Angela Merkel. Ed Sheeran is to be portrayed as a turnip, with a root growing from his chin, and Dominic Cummings as an evil … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: As Spitting Image puppets return… it’s Satireday night lively and dangerous! 

Spitting Image returns to our screens on Saturday. We are promised grotesque new latex puppets of, among many others, Donald Trump, Meghan and Harry, Kim Kardashian, Boris Johnson, Taylor Swift and Angela Merkel. Ed Sheeran is to be portrayed as a turnip, with a root growing from his chin, and Dominic Cummings as an evil … Read more