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Back to Scotland for a moment. I am told by a minister that the PM’s big plan to keep Scotland in the union is to love bomb it in the

On 26 May Dominic Cummings will give evidence to MPs grouped on the health and science super committee, chaired by @Jeremy_Hunt and @GregClarkMP. This will be box office politically, because

I understand that @BorisJohnson's first conversations about having the Downing Street flat funded by donors were as long ago as February 2020. At the time Ben Elliot, joint chairman of

.@DUPleader will inevitably resign soon, in the face of the coup against her. What happens next will have huge significance in respect of Northern Ireland remaining part of the UK

Downing St has for the third time in five days put out a statement that is irrelevant to the central question, which is how long @BorisJohnson borrowed tens of thousands

I'm understand CCHQ (Tory Party) made payment to the Cabinet Office to cover initial costs of refurbishing the PM's home in Downing Street, and the PM is now repaying CCHQ.

Cutting the aid budget from the symbolically important 0.7% of national income to 0.5% seems weird for a PM who said Brexit was about creating Global Britain - and when

These are the measures to be announced by the PM at 5, as I understand it. They will last 2 December. And they are, In effect, a new “Tier 4”

The chancellor @RishiSunak insists he is not blocking the provision of free school meals over the holidays including Christmas. What is striking is that his billionaire father-in-law NR Narayan Murthy

I have been banging on about how the number of people dying right now of #COVID19 is much higher than it should be, if @CMO_England and @uksciencechief are right that

It is extraordinary that #Covid19 has turned @BorisJohnson into more Castro than Castro. By the time the remade Job Support Scheme, the Self-employed grant and the business grants terminate at

Just to be clear, a mob of EU officials were already booked on eurostar to come to London tomorrow for technical talks on the free trade deal long before the