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Steven Swinford Profile picture
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Jul 23, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
EXCLUSIVE

Jeremy Hunt's Cabinet future on brink after he told Boris Johnson he will not accept demotion from foreign sec

He made clear he's only willing to accept 3 jobs - his current role, chancellor or DPM

Johnson has offered him defence secretary

Hunt has turned it down
Talks between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are ongoing

But time is ticking.

Boris Johnson will sack ministers in his office in Parliament at 5pm tomorrow

He’ll appoint Cabinet ministers from 7pm in No 10

Will Jeremy Hunt be among them?
You can read more in tomorrow’s Times:

* Priti Patel back among top jobs, tipped for Home Sec

* Gove in line for big promotion - he’s been mooted for housing & NI but something more significant is in the offing

* Some surprises - Nadine Dorries could become a junior minister

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Sep 13, 2023
EXCLUSIVE:

Keir Starmer’s migration policy:

* Treat people smugglers like terrorists, freeze assets & restrict movement

* Pursue EU-wide returns deal

* Scrap Tory 'unsustainable' plans to ban cross-channel migrants from claiming asylum

thetimes.co.uk/article/ff8875…
Starmer wants to use civil orders used to target terrorists and serious criminals against people traffickers

The orders enable the authorities to restrict movements, communications & freeze assets pre conviction
Starmer confirms that Labour will ultimately seek an EU-wide returns agreement

Asked if he is willing to accept 'quid pro quo' of migrant quotas, he says it's a matter for future negotiations with Brussels
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Jun 12, 2023
Exclusive:

Privileges Committee has found Boris Johnson knowingly misled Commons after rejecting central defence

MPs found no evidence to back his claim he was assured by officials that Covid guidance had not been breached - in fact they found opposite

thetimes.co.uk/article/58f392…
Johnson was told by his PPS Martin Reynolds not to claim that social distancing guidance has been followed at all times in No 10 - he said it was ‘unrealistic’

Johnson went on to make claim repeatedly in Commons anyway
Boris Johnson’s former director of communications Jack Doyle also said he had not given PM assurances that social distancing guidelines had not been breached in No 10
Read 6 tweets
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Jun 9, 2023
BREAKING

Boris Johnson is standing down as the Tory MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, triggering an immediate by-election

Comes after Privileges Committee recommended suspension of more than 10 days
Boris Johnson on Privileges Committee:

'It is very sad to be leaving parliament - at least for now - but above all I am bewildered and appalled that I can be forced out, anti-democratically, by a committee chaired and managed, by Harriet Harman, with such egregious bias'
Boris Johnson:

'I am being forced out by a tiny handful of people, with no evidence to back up their assertions, and without approval even of Conservative party members let alone the wider electorate.

'I believe that a dangerous and unsettling precedent is being set'
Read 5 tweets
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May 23, 2023
EXCLUSIVE from @hzeffman

Boris Johnson referred to police by the Cabinet Office over visits by friends to Chequers and Downing Street while covid restrictions were in place

Met Police and Thames Valley Police confirm they are considering evidence

thetimes.co.uk/article/7d1115…
Boris Johnson's govt-funded lawyers raised concerns about a series of visits between June 2020 and May 2021 listed in his ministerial diary

They were going through the diary in preparation for public inquiry into Covid pandemic
The govt-funded lawyers raised concerns with senior officials in the Cabinet Office

They referred the matter to the police and also informed the privileges committee

They were obliged to do so under civil service code
Read 6 tweets
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May 23, 2023
Exclusive:

Officials emailed Cabinet Office's propriety and ethics team after she asked if they could intervene over speeding fine

They were concerned it was inappropriate - the Cab Office told them not to get involved

Follows @HarryYorke1
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thetimes.co.uk/article/suella…
@HarryYorke1 Rishi Sunak is going through the emails as he weighs up whether to refer Suella Braverman to the independent adviser on ministerial interests

Braverman supporter says officials contacted Cabinet Office as a matter of 'due process' to establish if they could help her
@HarryYorke1 Braverman allies are already issuing tacit warnings to PM over referring Braverman for investigation

One said Sunak risks making a 'mountain out of a molehill' and that they hope Sunak sees that
Read 4 tweets
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May 22, 2023
Exclusive:

Meet the New Conservatives - Tory MPs from right of the party in 2017 & 2019 intakes who are seeking to realign Tory Party to Midlands & Red Wall

They profess loyalty to Rishi Sunak but want action on migration, tax cuts, size of armed forces

thetimes.co.uk/article/lee-an…
Lee Anderson, deputy chairman of Tory Party, says there is a risk Britain will become 'full' and there will be 'no space in this island'

'Our children, our grandchildren will say why? You had a chance to sort this out. At some stage our country will be full. What do we do then?'
Alex Stafford, Tory MP for Rother Valley, says businesses have become 'addicted to cheap labour'

Nick Fletcher, MP for Don Valley, says the Tory manifesto pledge on migration is 'achievable'. 'It's always a problem when you break a pledge'
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