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Feb 8 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🔴 NEW: Sir John Major is expected to accuse Boris Johnson of corroding trust in politics over the "partygate" saga in a bruising intervention to be delivered on Thursday

Read more from @benrileysmith 👇
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➡️The former prime minister and Conservative leader will deliver a speech entitled "In democracy we trust?" at the Institute for Government think tank Image
🔴 Sir John is set to call into question Downing Street's response to allegations of lockdown-breaking parties, which at first saw a blanket denial issued by Mr Johnson's press team
🍻He is also likely to criticise the behaviour that led to accusations of hypocrisy being levelled at Number 10 officials who drank alcohol and socialised while the public was in lockdown Image
It will be Sir John's first major intervention on claims of parties on government property during Covid restrictions, which have triggered a police investigation

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🔴John Major has launched a scathing attack on Boris Johnson for 'breaking lockdown rules'.

In a speech he said: 'Brazen excuses were dreamed up. Day after day the public was asked to believe the unbelievable'

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🔴Sir John, a former Conservative Party leader, argued that the UK’s reputation overseas was being "shredded", undermining its attempts to influence world affairs
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🔴Boris Johnson is set to face Sir Keir Starmer at today's #PMQs and is unlikely to apologise for his remarks over the Labour leader and Jimmy Savile, according to the health minister

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🇷🇺🇫🇷On Monday, while eastern Europe continued to teeter on the edge of full-blown war, Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron met for crisis talks at the Kremlin.

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Feb 8
🔴NEW: Boris Johnson to reshuffle his ministers this afternoon

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🔴Mark Spencer has been made Lord President and Leader of the House of Commons.

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Feb 8
❓Do reports of a growing rivalry between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak sound familiar?

It's because we had more than a decade of festering resentment between the Treasury and No 10 when Blair and Brown were at the pinnacle of British politics🧵👇
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It is easy to dismiss reports of disquiet between the two centres of power as Whitehall tittle-tattle.

❌Yet the relationship between the prime minister and their chancellor is the very hinge a government rests on – and if it fully breaks down, the government cannot last long
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Asked whether he every worried that the Chancellor might be after his job, Boris Johnson replied “absolutely not”.

✍️That the Prime Minister even needed to say it speaks volumes about the febrile atmosphere inside Downing St, writes @CamillaTominey

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