🚨BREAKING: Robert Jenrick, Communities Secretary, is out.
Jenrick has tweeted: "Thank you to everyone at the department for their hard work, dedication and friendship. I’m deeply proud of all we achieved"
🔴Promotions are set to begin.
Our political correspondent @Tony_Diver has tweeted: "Hirings about to begin. Police have just told photographers outside No10 there will be a series of politicians and cars on their way up the street, beginning shortly"
Labour may have lavished praise on Robert Buckland, as he steps down as justice secretary.
But no such warmth has been shown towards the former education secretary.
❌"Gavin Williamson has failed children and young people, their parents and our hard working education staff
🔴Labour 'savages' Gavin Williamson's legacy
🗣️"Gavin Williamson has failed children and young people, their parents and our hard working education staff throughout one of the most testing periods in our history," says Kate Green, his Labour counterpart
➡️Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, has just left what appeared to be a lengthy discussion with Boris Johnson as the pair wrangle over his future telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
🔴NEW: Dominic Raab has been demoted to Justice Secretary, following a lengthy meeting with the Prime Minister, as part of today's reshuffle. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
➡️Raab has also been formally named as deputy prime minister, a role he previously held on a de facto basis, but has lost his more senior role of foreign secretary
🔴Suella Braverman, the Attorney General, and Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Leader of the Commons, have arrived in Downing Street to speak to the Prime Minister.
Mr Rees-Mogg said he would "wait and see" if he will remain in post
Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.