🔴 NEW: Rishi Sunak receives further boost as Steve Barclay declares support
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➡️Rishi Sunak has vowed to run the economy like Margaret Thatcher if he becomes the next prime minister, telling Tory leadership rivals: “You have to earn what you spend.”
Mordaunt said that "recently I think our party has lost its sense of self" and that it needed to "get back to" its standard messages of "low tax, small state, personal responsibility"
🔴PMQs got off to a chaotic start as Neale Hanvey and Kenny McAskill, two Alba Party MPs were ejected.
The pair refused to sit down as they appeared to shout at Boris Johnson, prompting Sir Lindsay Hoyle to tell them "either shut up or get out" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴There are now reports that the Government is tabling a confidence motion in itself, with a vote to be held in the House of Commons in the coming days.
🗣️Boris Johnson has said it could be his last PMQs
"The next leader of my party may be elected by acclamation so it is possible this will be our last confrontation over this despatch box, it is possible" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
➡️Boris Johnson has told MPs that when he leaves No 10, he will do so "with my head held high".
"I am proud of the fantastic team work that has been involved in all of those projects both nationally and internationally" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴Boris Johnson is combatting Labour’s plans to force a no confidence vote by tabling a motion to ask MPs whether they have confidence in the Government telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔵Eight Tory leadership candidates remained in the race on Tuesday evening after each securing the backing of at least 20 MPs.
🔴Boris Johnson plans to leave No 10 on September 6 if the next Tory leader is chosen the day before as planned, the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman has said
📊Penny Mordaunt is the clear favourite among Tory Party members to replace Boris Johnson and she would beat all of her rivals in a final head-to-head contest, a new poll has suggested.
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!
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✍️ @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.