🔴The former Prime Minister has intervened over 'partygate', saying that she expects her successor to follow "full accountability" if the report by Sue Gray founds wrongdoing
🔴The Metropolitan Police has received the material it requested from the Cabinet Office to support its investigation into possible breaches of Covid regulations and guidance in Downing Street and Whitehall, the force has said
🔴Scotland Yard has announced that it will start sending letters to Downing Street officials suspected of breaching lockdown rules after receiving a dossier of evidence from Sue Gray
With No 10 at the heart of a storm, Jacob Rees-Mogg opens up to @CamillaTominey about family, politics and his enduring faith in the embattled Prime Minister.
"Jacob Rees-Mogg is so laid-back, he might as well be horizontal" writes @CamillaTominey
Partygate has thrown a grenade under No 10, but as far as the Leader of the House of Commons is concerned, everything’s still tickety-boo telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
“I’m a great supporter of his but I wouldn’t say we are close friends,” Rees-Mogg says of Boris Johnson.
“I would say I am a carrier of the flabellum” - which is, the devoted Catholic adds, “the ostrich feather carried in front of the Pope.” telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
On this episode of I Witnessed History, The Telegraph’s Assistant Editor Philip Johnston paints a picture of being at Thatcher's side as the Tories staged a coup
Philip Johnston, The Telegraph’s assistant editor, was in Paris with Margaret Thatcher while a vote on Michael Heseltine’s challenge for the Conservative leadership took place
Just four votes shy of her needed majority, Thatcher vowed to fight on, but would resign before the end of the year
More than half of women are childless by the age of 30, according to official figures which show later motherhood, or choosing not to have any children, has now become the norm
The statistics show that for the first time, the majority of women enter their 30s without having started a family