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Boris Johnson’s former aide turned on disappearing messages on his own phone during the pandemic, the Covid Inquiry was told. Martin Reynolds turned on the function on WhatsApp on April 15 2021, just weeks before Mr Johnson announced the Covid Inquiry. Hugo Keith said Mr Reynolds was “plainly discussing Covid related matters” between the moment he turned on the disappearing ...

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced he is joining GB News. Mr Johnson, who stepped down as an MP earlier this year, will work for the news channel as a presenter, programme maker and commentator. He will “play a key role” in coverage of the UK and US elections next year and will host a series “showcasing the power ...

LONDON: A woman who left Britain to marry a fighter of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group when she was a teenager began her appeal against the revocation of her citizenship in a UK court on Tuesday. A lawyer for Shamima Begum, 24, told the Court of Appeal in London that the Home Office had failed to consider its legal ...

A former parliamentary staff member has described how “physical, emotional and psychological abuse” by the MP he worked for left him a “broken shell of the young man I once was”. Peter Bone was suspended as a Conservative MP after an investigation found he had bullied and was sexually inappropriate around the individual. The MP’s ex-assistant told the BBC the ...

The decision to deprive Shamima Begum of her British citizenship was unlawful, the Court of Appeal has heard. Ms Begum travelled to Syria in 2015 – at the age of 15 – before her British citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019. Earlier this year, the now-24-year-old ...

Thousands of people are taking part in a pro-Palestinian protest in London for the second consecutive weekend. The Met Police estimated up to 100,000 people had joined the march, which was due to end in a rally near Downing Street, as of 14:00 BST. Smaller demos have taken place in Birmingham, Cardiff and Salford. It comes as the first aid ...

Britain’s ruling Conservative Party suffered two damaging by-election defeats to Labour on Friday, boding ill for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his party’s chances at the next general election. The elections were in traditionally safe Tory seats, but Labour managed to overturn huge majorities in both on a notable evening for the opposition party, AFP reports. Labour had played down ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday said that “Hamas are the new Nazis” and urged continuous support from UK PM Rishi Sunak in their “long war” against Hamas. In a joint statement with Sunak, who arrived in Tel Aviv earlier today, Netanyahu said, “…this is a long war and we’ll need your continuous support. There’ll be ups and downs and ...

Rishi Sunak has arrived in Israel, commencing a two-day trip to the wider region amid growing concerns the conflict with Hamas could escalate. The prime minister will hold a meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, before travelling to a number of other regional capitals in a diplomatic bid to prevent fighting from spiralling. Downing Street ...

LONDON, 18 OCTOBER : British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Wednesday that the government still expected inflation to “keep falling this year,” after September data showed annual consumer price inflation was unchanged from August’s 18-month low. “As we have seen across other G7 countries, inflation rarely falls in a straight line, but if we stick to our plan then ...