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Jan 18 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🔴 NEW: Boris Johnson is set to announce the lifting of "Plan B" Covid restrictions on Wednesday as a plot to oust him by Tory MPs first elected in 2019 emerged

Read more from @benrileysmith, @LOS_Fisher and @HarryYorke1👇
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🔴The Cabinet is expected to sign off scrapping work from home guidance and Covid passports at a meeting on Wednesday morning, although some face mask rules could remain

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The changes – which would take effect in England after Jan 26 – come as Mr Johnson is set to play up his record on tackling Covid to counter a rebellion sparked by revelations about Downing Street parties
The Prime Minister gave his first public comments in six days on Tuesday, issuing a "categorical" denial that he was warned that a Downing Street garden drinks event on May 20, 2020, was "against the rules"
Yet as he laid out his defence, a group of 20 recently elected Tory MPs, many representing former Labour heartland "Red Wall" seats, met to discuss his fate in a gathering described as the "pork pie plot"

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Those present told The Telegraph the group discussed submitting letters of no confidence together – a move that would markedly increase the political danger for Mr Johnson.

If 54 Tory MPs submit letters to the 1922 Committee, an automatic leadership vote is triggered.
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Jan 19
🚨BREAKING: Boris Johnson has said that Plan B measures would be allowed to expire and that from Thursday next week mandatory Covid passes will end.

The Government will no longer mandate the use of face masks anywhere from that point onward
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🔴The Government is no longer asking people to work from home.

“People should speak to their employers about arrangements for returning to the office” Boris Johnson said
😷From tomorrow, face masks will no longer be required in classrooms.

The use of face masks will continue to be suggested in crowded places, but Mr Johnson said the Government "would trust the judgement of the British people"
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Jan 19
🔴On a tumultuous day in Westminster, follow our live updates as the Prime Minister battles to save his premiership👇

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As many as 11 members of the 2019 Conservative MPs have submitted letters of no confidence in Boris Johnson this morning, writes @christopherhope

@christopherhope Boris Johnson was “broken” and “close to tears” last night as he tried to convince rebel MPs not to call for his resignation, @Tony_Diver reports

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Jan 19
🔴NEW: The voters are our boss, not Boris Johnson, says minister as 'pork pie plot' emerges

Follow all the latest updates on our politics liveblog, which is currently free to read, here 👇

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🔴Christian Wakeford last night became the first 'Red Wall' MP to call for Mr Johnson to go, telling Yahoo News he had called on the PM to resign and confirming reports of a 'pork pie plot'

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Read the full list of Tories calling for Boris Johnson to resign here 👇

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Jan 18
♟ "For a man caricatured as an evil genius, there is a distinct lack of genius in Dominic Cummings’s evil plan to get rid of the Prime Minister"

Read the latest analysis from @GordonRayner: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
"Cummings's zealous offer to testify on oath that Johnson ignored warnings about a drinks party in No 10 was meant to be a coup de grâce – but, instead, it appears to have helped shore up the PM’s precarious position", writes @gordonrayner
"Because if MPs are forced to choose sides between Cummings and Johnson, there will only ever be one outcome"

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Jan 18
🇹🇴First images from surveillance planes flying over Tonga reveal “catastrophic” and “extensive” damage to villages in low-lying coastal parts of the archipelago.

A devastating volcanic eruption and a subsequent tsunami has caused untold devastation 👇
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➡️Photographs taken by the New Zealand Air Force emerged from Atata and Nomuka islands, where surveillance crews observed “a large number of buildings missing” and “multiple trees uprooted, with debris throughout”
The first of two confirmed deaths emerged on Monday but the real casualty figure in the tiny nation of about 100,000 people remains unknown.

Communications were cut off by the volcanic explosion and roads and the airport damaged
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Jan 18
🔴 The British jihadist who carried out a terror attack at at synagogue in Texas was granted entry to the US despite having a string of criminal convictions.

US officials have been accused of ‘dropping the ball’

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Blackburn-born Malik Faisal Akram, who was once banned from his local magistrates’ court for ranting about the 9/11 attacks, flew to New York at the end of December
❌ Intelligence sources refused to confirm a report on Monday night that he had been on a terror watchlist
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