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I know what it is like to have a party leader visit your house in a flood. Six years ago this month, I had spent a tidy sum doing up my dad’s modest house in Wraysbury, Berkshire, after he died, and I was about to sell it. Then I switched on the TV one morning and … Read more
David Dimbleby has launched a savage attack on ‘lying’ Boris Johnson’s ‘pernicious’ attempt to curb the BBC licence fee. The veteran broadcaster accused the Prime Minister of using the issue to undermine the corporation and avoid having his policies scrutinised. He said Mr Johnson ‘doesn’t give a damn’ about fairness because his landslide election victory … Read more
Boris Johnson unveils new blue passport as Britain reverts back to the colour of its original document post-Brexit PM pictured holding a blue passport on a flight to Newcastle on day of Brexit The blue passports will be sent out at the end of March after 30-year hiatus British passports were dark blue from the inception … Read more
Boris Johnson unveils new blue passport as Britain reverts back to the colour of its original document post-Brexit PM pictured holding a blue passport on a flight to Newcastle on day of Brexit The blue passports will be sent out at the end of March after 30-year hiatus British passports were dark blue from the inception … Read more
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 ‘A feud should live a full and colourful life,’ said movie icon Paul Newman, ‘and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.’ I’ve spent the past 18 months engaged in a bitter war of words with ex-Wham! star Andrew Ridgeley after he appeared on Good Morning Britain and behaved … Read more
Boris Johnson hit by £10bn pension tax backlash as savers urge the Prime Minister and his Chancellor not to raid their retirement pots Treasury to be planning to cut pensions tax relief to 20 per cent for all workers These savers would effectively be taxed twice on their retirement income Institute for Fiscal Studies warned … Read more
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1 New year, new decade, new start… or perhaps not. My only plan for 2020 is to sit back and laugh as friends make an attention-seeking, virtue-signalling fool of themselves doing #DryJanuary or even worse, #Veganuary. As Oscar Wilde put it: ‘Good resolutions are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where … Read more
Families devastated by flooding today demanded action from Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he enjoys a grace and favour break with his girlfriend in Kent. Up to 1,500 homes have been flooded and thousands more evacuated across Britain following Storm Dennis which brought torrential rain and 90mph winds. But Mr Johnson has chosen to remain … Read more
House prices have risen in every UK region for the first time in almost two years thanks to the ‘Boris bounce’. The value of the average home jumped by 2.2 per cent – or £5,013 – to £234,734 in the year to the end of December. But for the first time since February 2018, prices … Read more
Priti Patel has branded rapper Dave’s claims that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a ‘real racist’ as ‘utter nonsense’ and ‘highly inappropriate’. The Home Secretary, today appearing on Sky News and BBC Breakfast to promote the Government’s radical immigration-system overhaul, said that Mr Johnson was ‘absolutely not a racist’ and disagreed with Dave’s ‘generalisation’. Her … Read more