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    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      Tory party pressure led Johnson to delay Covid curbs, says Hancock

      Former health secretary concedes pandemic rule-breaking by ministers and aides hit public adherence

      2 hours ago
      Matt Hancock gives evidence at the Covid inquiry
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      Boris Johnson ‘not in charge’ in lead-up to pandemic, inquiry hears

      Sajid Javid says former UK PM allowed Dominic Cummings to make key government decisions in early days of crisis

      Sajid Javid giving evidence at the Covid inquiry
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      Boris Johnson was ‘bamboozled’ by scientific data, UK Covid inquiry told

      Diary entries by then chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance reveal how pandemic modelling ‘confused’ former PM

      Sir Patrick Vallance giving evidence at the Covid inquiry on Monday
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      News in-depthConservative Party UK
      ‘Tragicomic’: Nadine Dorries’s potboiler book highlights Tory disunity

      Book by staunch Boris Johnson loyalist is a sign of the dysfunction in the UK’s ruling Conservative party

      Montage of Nadine Dorries and cover of book ‘The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson’
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Jill Rutter
      Whitehall woes laid bare by Covid spats pose a serious challenge

      The civil service, blamed and attacked by Johnson-era politicos, also has lessons to learn from this inquiry

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of four people whose heads are pixelated. Three are in a suit, while one is in casual clothing. Two hold a paper on which is written the word Policy.
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      Ex-top UK civil servant urged Johnson to sack Hancock, Covid inquiry hears

      Mark Sedwill says then PM would have been ‘under no illusion’ about his view at height of pandemic

      Lord Mark Sedwill gives evidence on Wednesday
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      UK politics
      Johnson fought against lockdown in autumn 2020, inquiry told

      Former chief strategic adviser claims UK PM said he would rather ‘let the bodies pile high’

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      Covid inquiry must offer more than lurid revelations

      The real question is why government systems failed when we most needed them

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of the 10 Downing Street door with red hearts pouring out of it, some inscribed with ‘Mum’ and ‘Dad’
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      News in-depthUK Covid inquiry
      ‘We were going to be great’: UK’s Covid failings laid bare in week of damning testimony

      Evidence from Downing Street insiders during inquiry paints devastating picture of response to pandemic

      Montage of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, Matt Hancock overlaid with a pulse line
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      Hancock wanted to decide ‘who should live’ if NHS overwhelmed, Covid inquiry told

      Former health service chief Simon Stevens says he sought to ‘discourage idea’ that ‘never crystallised’

      Lord Simon Stevens
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      ‘Macho’ culture hit UK’s Covid response, says ex-civil servant

      Helen MacNamara tells inquiry that Number 10’s assumption was ‘we were going to be great’

      Helen MacNamara
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      UK hit by ‘widespread failure’ in Covid-19 response, inquiry hears

      Dominic Cummings says ‘dysfunctional system’ of state led vulnerable to be ‘appallingly neglected’ in 2020

      Boris Johnson with Sir Patrick Vallance during a Covid press conference in 2021
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Covid inquiry won’t topple the Boris Johnson myth

      But the deep dive into government decision-making will bring about tighter regulation of ministers’ communications

      Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      UK civil servant said Johnson changed ‘direction every day’, Covid inquiry hears

      Private messages between government advisers reveal chaos and division in early days of crisis

      Cabinet secretary Simon Case, left, with then-PM Boris Johnson
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      GB News
      Boris Johnson to host TV shows on GB News

      Broadcaster says former PM will join in new year and play key role in its election coverage

      Boris Johnson
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Dorries in government dispute over exposé of Johnson’s downfall

      Former minister is refusing to submit manuscript of new book for review by officials

    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Brexit
      Starmer heads to Paris for Macron talks to set out post-Brexit stall

      UK’s opposition leader pledges to repair relations with EU leaders but may find they have other priorities

      Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      UK politics
      Labour urges probe into shortlisting of Johnson relative for British Council job

      Rayner asks Sunak to refer case to independent adviser on ministerial interests and public appointments commissioner

      Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      News in-depthUK politics
      How was Boris Johnson’s loan guarantor put forward to run the British Council?

      The former prime minister’s ally Nigel Adams was involved in recruitment for role

    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Can UK honours system arise from the swamp?

      With two of Liz Truss’s nominees reportedly refusing gongs, Britain could learn better practices from abroad

      Liz Truss and Boris Johnson attend the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph on Whitehall
    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      UK politics
      Sunak’s suits don’t fit, but that’s precisely their point

      In social media age, politicians’ outfits become ever more key to conveying aims and values

      Rishi Sunak speaks to the media during a visit to Crofton Park, Birmingham
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry set to obtain Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages

      Technical experts manage to retrieve data from former prime minister’s old mobile phone

      Boris Johnson
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      News in-depthClimate change
      UK’s green halo fades under Sunak leadership

      UN climate leaders write to Number 10 about PM’s ‘lackadaisical’ attitude to global warming

    • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
      UK politics
      Tory pledge to build 40 new hospitals will fail, says report

      Spending watchdog warns of multiple problems with construction programme

      Construction site sign at an NHS hospital
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      Covid inquiry set to finally gain access to Johnson’s old mobile phone

      Former PM’s allies say he has confirmed the pin number for the device using government records

      Boris Johnson
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