PMQs verdict: Angela Rayner lovingly eviscerates Dowden in final ‘battle of the gingers’
The B Team were back in the House of Commons today, assuming positions on behalf of their bosses for the first time since the election in July.
‘Very partial’: Deputy PM dismisses claim Johnson saw Covid as ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’
Oliver Dowden has dismissed the claim that former prime minister Boris Johnson saw Covid as “nature’s way of dealing with old people”. Dowden, who serves as deputy prime minister and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said that that account, which was revealed at the Covid inquiry yesterday, was “very partial”. He told Sky News: […]
The Westminster Round Up: NHS Recovery | Boris’s Legal Fees | Israeli Government | Independence Pursuit
What has happened in parliament this week? This is a short, summary video, compiling the best of our Commons Today clips and bringing you the highlights from the week in Parliament. This week, the video features Steve Barclay’s NHS recovery statement on emergency services, the Minimum Service Bill, Boris Johnson’s taxpayer-funded legal fees, Scotland’s multi-faceted […]
‘Unforgivable’ for health secretary to turn down pay talks to suspend strikes, says Labour
It is “unforgivable” for the health secretary to reject an offer by nursing leaders to attend pay talks in return for suspending strike action, shadow health and social care minister Liz Kendall has said. She told BBC Breakfast: “You asked what we would do, and let me say this very simply. “And I think it’s […]
1922 Committee treasurer talks of ‘difficult decisions’ for MPs, as Dowden resigns
Following by-election defeats in Tiverton and Honiton and Wakefield, the treasurer of the backbench 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, has suggested his colleagues have “difficult decisions” to make around the prime minister’s future. The comments by the veteran MP, follow the surprise resignation of the Conservative Party Chairman, Oliver Dowden MP. In […]
‘Change of culture’ needed in Downing Street says Conservative party Chairman
Conservative party Chairman Oliver Dowden has defended the prime minister this morning, insisting that there is no need for Mr Johnson to resign. Nonetheless, presented with a list of the parties that are currently understood to have taken place in Downing Street and Whitehall during the pandemic, Mr Dowden admitted that a “change of culture” […]
