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Jan 26 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
🔴 Boris Johnson faces a #PMQs grilling as the #SueGrayReport looms

Follow the latest from Westminster live 👇
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Watch #PMQs live here 👇
Boris Johnson is asked by Kate Osamor if he agreed with Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, writing off £4.3 billion of fraud.

"No of course not Mr Speaker, but we do not support fraudsters or those who steal from the public purse," the PM says

#PMQs

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🔴Sir Starmer says: "The Ministerial Code says ministers who mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation. Does he believe it applies to him?"

The PM says the code does apply to him but notes that he can't comment on the investigation

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
"Since he acknowledged the Ministerial Code applies to him, will he now resign?" Sir Keir asks of Boris Johnson

"No," responds the PM

#PMQs

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🗣️'We've discovered the real Captain Hindsight' quips Sir Keir Starmer

"Does the Prime Minister really not understand the damage his behaviour is doing to our country?"

#PMQs

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🔴Boris Johnson brings up Ukraine in response to 'Partygate' question at #PMQs

"It's almost as though he was ignorance of the fact we have a crisis on the borders of Ukraine" the PM says to Sir Keir Starmer

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
❓"Can the Prime Minister confirm he will publish the full Sue Gray report as he receives it?" asks Sir Keir Starmer

Mr Johnson calls to "leave the report to the independent investigator

"When I receive it I will do exactly what I said"

#PMQs

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🔴Sir Keir Starmer tells Boris Johnson: "The police say the evidence meets the test, frankly the public have made up their minds, they know he's not fit for the job"

#PMQs

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Sir Keir Starmer brands Boris Johnson "unable to lead the country, incapable of doing the right thing."

🗣️Boris Johnson's response is: "He wants me out of the way because he knows this Government can be trusted to deliver"

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…

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Jan 26
🔴 With Sue Gray's 'partygate' report imminent, some leading lights might well take their chance to bring down the country's most powerful man

@CamillaTominey reports

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The Prime Minister may have granted himself a stay of execution pending the findings of Sue Gray’s much anticipated "partygate" report.

❌But Wednesday’s developments suggest that there is only so much power the most powerful man in the country can wield
Take the strength of the briefing around Ms Gray’s desire to see her investigation published in full.

✍️In theory, it should be in a Prime Minister’s gift to decide when and how an inquiry he has called should report back to the public
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Jan 26
📰Sue Gray's report on allegations of lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street is expected any day, but No 10 and Tory rebels are already planning their next steps

This is what to watch out for 👇🧵

#SueGrayReport

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
1⃣ Boris Johnson addresses MPs

The PM has made clear he will address Parliament about Sue Gray’s findings soon after they are made public.

The position is being framed by Downing St as the chance for Parliament to hold Mr Johnson accountable for what is found
2⃣ Departures from PM’s inner circle

There is a near-universal belief among Tory MPs and government advisers that an overhaul of his inner circle is coming.

The move in part reflects the PM feeling let down by his team at the scale of drinking in Downing Street
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Jan 25
"Their politics may be vastly different, but their political style is scarily similar – and that could make her Labour's 'wild card'"

@CamillaTominey on why Angela Rayner could be the new 'Boris' in the making 👇
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
"The power-dressing, fake-fur-loving Labour leadership hopeful is becoming positively Boris-like in her habit of hogging the headlines" writes @CamillaTominey

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🎙️"The 41-year-old mother-of-three might bristle at comparisons with her Dispatch Box nemesis, but the similarities are increasingly plain to see in their penchant for speaking without thinking and their star status as politicians with a populist touch"

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Jan 24
🔴As the Prime Minister hunkers down in No 10, braced for Sue Gray's findings on the partygate saga, Downing Street continues to do battle with Boris Johnson's own Tory colleagues

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➡️William Wragg has brought in police over complaints of “blackmail and intimidation” by the whips’ office.

Now the Government faces yet another inquiry over Nusrat Ghani’s claims that she was “reshuffled” in February 2020 because of her “Muslimness”
🗣️Yet amid the claims and counter-claims, with chief whip Mark Spencer vehemently denying that he made an issue of Ms Ghani’s religion...

...there is a tie that binds those currently causing Mr Johnson the most strife
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Jan 17
🔴Boris Johnson has been questioned by Sue Gray over "partygate" allegations, Whitehall sources have told @Telegraph.

It comes as new signs of a Tory grassroots backlash emerged.

#Thread👇

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
The Prime Minister is understood to have shared what he knows with Ms Gray, the civil servant overseeing the investigation into alleged parties at Downing Street during lockdown
➡️Downing Street is already planning its response to the findings, with the promise to overhaul a "drinking culture" in Number 10.

The departure of senior figures is expected
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Jan 14
🔴EXCLUSIVE: Former government head responsible for Covid rules held 'boozy' leaving party during Christmas restrictions

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🔴The Telegraph has been told that “dozens” of officials from the Cabinet Office’s Covid-19 taskforce attended the event on Dec 17 2020 while the country was still under draconian restrictions

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Those present are alleged to have gathered in the taskforce’s office in 70 Whitehall that evening, where they consumed alcohol and held a party to mark the departure of Kate Josephs, the then director-general Image
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