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Downing Street puts up traditional Christmas tree outside No10

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Traditional tree felled in York is put up outside Number 10 as Boris Johnson says it is a ‘first step to bringing us some festive cheer in a very challenging year’ Traditional Downing Street Christmas tree was put up outside Number 10 today Tree came from a … Read more

Downing Street urges EU to resume face-to-face trade talks

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Downing Street today urged Michel Barnier to come to London to resume face-to-face Brexit trade talks amid reports the EU’s chief negotiator had threatened to walk away from discussions.  Top-level talks between Mr Barnier and UK counterpart Lord Frost were suspended last week after a member of the EU team tested positive for coronavirus.  Negotiations … Read more

Downing Street ‘takes sledgehammer’ to Dominic Cummings legacy

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The Cummings clearout: No10 ‘will hand back control of special advisers to ministers’ as maverick aide’s legacy is dramatically torched Special advisers had to report directly to Dominic Cummings under old regime But new regime led by acting chief of staff Edward Lister is tearing up old rules Means special advisers will once again report … Read more

Ousted pair Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain could return to Downing Street, insiders claim

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Ousted pair Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain could return to Downing Street and work on the Conservative’s 2024 election campaign, insiders claim. The Prime Minister is thought to have left the door open for Mr Cain’s return while speaking to the communication chief’s colleagues following his dramatic departure on Friday.  The Tory leader is also … Read more

Dominic Cummings leaves Downing Street with his belongings in a box

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Dominic Cummings arrived home clutching a bag of alcohol tonight after Boris Johnson ordered him to leave Downing Street for good. After a week of turmoil, the Prime Minister told his most senior adviser to go with immediate effect in a bid to end the toxic rows at No 10.  Lee Cain, who announced his … Read more

Tory aide ‘frogmarched’ out of Downing Street wins ‘five figure payout’ 

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Tory aide ‘frogmarched’ out of Downing Street after being fired by Dominic Cummings amid Brexit leaks frenzy settles employment case with ‘five figure payout’ Ex-Treasury aide Sonia Khan has settled employment claim with ‘five figure’ sum  Ms Khan was frogmarched from No10 after being fired by Dominic Cummings She had been accused of still being … Read more

Boris Johnson’s advisers competing amid Downing Street ‘civil war’

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Downing Street is today locked in a bitter and very public civil war over the direction of the Government after Whitehall was rocked by the resignation of Boris Johnson’s director of communications Lee Cain.  Mr Cain last night announced he will leave Number 10 at the end of the year after a standoff over whether … Read more

Dr Ranj Singh slams government and claims Downing Street ‘could have and should have done better’

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ITV’s doctor Dr Ranj Singh has slammed the government following the announcement that the UK now has the highest Covid-19 death toll in Europe . The health professional, 41, said he was ‘sick and tired’ of justifying the government’s actions relating to the pandemic, as he discussed the new alarming numbers with Philip Schofield and … Read more

Boris Johnson aide Lee Cain QUITS amid Downing Street power struggle

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Boris Johnson’s director of communications Lee Cain last night dramatically announced he is quitting amid a blazing power struggle inside Number 10.    The longstanding Johnson aide and Dominic Cummings loyalist was only hours before being touted for promotion to the role of Prime Minister’s chief of staff.  In his resignation statement, Mr Cain confirmed he had … Read more