Theresa May has arrived to vote in a ballgown The former PM is also wearing sequin encrusted heels

🔵 Boris Johnson needs the backing of 180 Tory MPs to remain as party leader 1) Sajid Javid

“I’m supporting the Prime Minister” he tells #r4today

In the last 24 hours 963 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan by British forces in a “significant acceleration” of the airlift, defence minister James Heappey tells Sky News

“We're looking forward to delivering similar numbers today, tomorrow, and over the days ahead” Defence minister James Heappey says the “reality” is flights out of Kabul airport will be stopped at some point “and quite possibly not everybody will have been got out”

🚨 | EXC: Dominic Raab failed to make crucial phone call while he was on holiday to seek urgent help airlifting translators out of the country Senior officials advised last Friday: "We recommend the Foreign Secretary urgently calls the Afghan foreign minister Hanif Atmar"

The British Embassy in Kabul said it was important call was made by him rather than a junior minister

Dominic Raab finally breaks cover

Foreign Secretary says Britain will hold back foreign aid cash "pending reforms" in Afghanistan

He says we are a "big hearted nation" but refuses to say how many Afghans will be welcomed Asked about his holiday, Dominic Raab says: "Everyone was caught by surprise by the scale and pace of the Taliban takeover"

A three hour emergency debate on foreign aid cuts is taking place in the Commons Andrew Mitchell says MPs opposed to aid cut have been described as rebels, "but it is the government that is rebelling" against its manifesto promise to keep the 0.7pc target

🚫 Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle announces he has *NOT* selected the foreign aid amendment to be voted on Hoyle tells Government that MPs *SHOULD* get a vote on foreign aid cut

EXC: Tory MP Tobias Ellwood attended a Christmas dinner with *27 guests* at a private members club in Mayfair on Tuesday🎄🍴 The Iraq Britain Business Council on its website described the event at the Cavalry and Guards Club in Piccadilly as its "Christmas party" 🎅

But Mr Ellwood insists it was a "business meeting" so was allowed under Tier 2 restrictions that applied at the time

💉Exclusive: Volunteers without previous medical experience are being recruited to help with the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine 💉St John Ambulance is offering to train those who are not first aiders how to administer injections, according to leaked documents

My beginner's guide to the Robert Jenrick/Richard Desmond planning row in 8 tweets 👇 🏗️Richard Desmond, the billionaire former newspaper tycoon, applied for planning permission to build a £1bn development, including 1,500 homes, on the site of the old Westferry printworks on the Isle of Dogs

Understand that Robert Jenrick is refusing to answer Urgent Question in the Commons this morning on this

Junior minister Chris Pincher is being sent in his place

https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1270617964228870145

Housing minister Simon Clarke on Sky News earlier insisting Robert Jenrick is a “good man and a good minister” who has done nothing wrong

Unclear why he doesn’t want to answer Qs in the Commons if nothing to hide

Robert Jenrick refuses to apologise for moving between his homes in London and Herefordshire. Government guidance is that people should not be living in their second homes A reminder for those saying he's not broken the rules by shifting to his home in Herefordshire:
+ the govt has told people not to stay in their 2nd homes
+ he and his wife work in London
+ his children go to school in London
+ his own website says he lives in London and Newark

Exclusive: Rick Stein refuses to pay workers at his restaurant empire - despite posting on Instagram about importance of looking after them dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8… Earlier *this month* Rick Stein was awarded one of 100 Best Companies to Work For

Now he has done what even Wetherspoons has backed away from and told staff they won’t get wages until end of April when government furlough scheme pays out

BREAKING: Man shot dead by police in Streatham had only been released from prison in the last few days after serving sentence for the possession and distribution of extremist material Authorities had concerns about man’s behaviour, including language that suggested he continued to hold extremist views, but he had to be released under current laws