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The whiff of decay coming off the tired Tory party after 14 years will cloud Rishi Sunak’s premiership

The whiff of decay coming off the tired Tory party after 14 years will cloud Rishi Sunak’s premiership

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William Turner

WILL the Tory party have any MPs left by the end of the year? With the number of by-elections of late triggered ...

Met Police launches Westminster honeytrap scandal investigation

Met Police launches Westminster honeytrap scandal investigation

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William Turner

On Sunday, Dame Andrea Jenkyns came forward as another target. The Conservative MP for Morley and Outwood said she received the suspected ...

Senior Tory Andrea Jenkyns calls for action against honeytrap scam MP

Senior Tory Andrea Jenkyns calls for action against honeytrap scam MP

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William Turner

Speaking to The Telegraph, Dame Andrea said she received the suspected scam message at the start of this year and has informed ...

Farage calls honeytrap scam MP William Wragg’s actions ‘abominable’

Farage calls honeytrap scam MP William Wragg’s actions ‘abominable’

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William Turner

Nigel Farage has called William Wragg’s actions “abominable” and said there “is a case” for the MPs’ standards tsar to investigate after ...

George Galloway damned by MPs as ‘stain on democracy’ for ‘lurid untruths’ about Princess of Wales

George Galloway damned by MPs as ‘stain on democracy’ for ‘lurid untruths’ about Princess of Wales

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William Turner

In a programme broadcast on March 16, Clews said there was a “high risk that [the Princess] may be dead because they’ve ...

Banning trans conversion therapy would be ‘law by social media’, Rosie Duffield warns

Banning trans conversion therapy would be ‘law by social media’, Rosie Duffield warns

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William Turner

Suella Braverman has said she fears she could be criminalised if transgender conversion therapy is banned because she teaches her children that ...

Tory MP suspended from Commons for 35 days paves the way for by-election

Tory MP suspended from Commons for 35 days paves the way for by-election

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William Turner

The panel also described Mr Benton’s arguments against the recommended suspension as “misconceived or erroneous”, finding the sanction was “neither unreasonable nor ...

Lindsay Hoyle accused after breaking pledge to give SNP new Gaza ceasefire vote

Lindsay Hoyle accused after breaking pledge to give SNP new Gaza ceasefire vote

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William Turner

Mr Flynn, who has already said he thinks the Speaker should quit, said the decision “called into question” the trust placed in ...

Tory Islamophobia row is ‘hysteria’, says Suella Braverman

Tory Islamophobia row is ‘hysteria’, says Suella Braverman

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William Turner

On Monday, Mr Sunak faced calls from Labour and the Liberal Democrats to condemn Mr Anderson’s comments as Islamophobic. However, his official ...

MPs given bodyguards as extremism threat rises

MPs given bodyguards as extremism threat rises

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William Turner

Thousands of MPs’ surgeries and hundreds of events have been protected since the scheme began, and that number is rising as tensions ...