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Rishi Sunak to spend £500,000 of taxpayers’ cash on focus groups and online polling

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will spend £500,000 of taxpayer’s money on public opinion focus groups and online polling, according to new Treasury contracts.

Evening Standard

No10 staff 'furious' after Boris Johnson only gets two Partygate questionnaires

An insider who received a fine said junior staff are 'livid' because they received multiple fixed penalty notices - while Boris Johnson only received two Partygate questionnaires

Daily Mirror

7 things you may have missed as Liverpool beat Man Utd in legends clash at Old Trafford

MAN UTD LEGENDS 1-3 LIVERPOOL LEGENDS: The two rival clubs met in a 'Legends of the North' clash at Old Trafford on Saturday afternoon with Liverpool continuing their purple patch of success by taking home the full bragging rights

Daily Mirror

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Rishi Sunak spends £500,000 of taxpayers’ cash on focus groups ‘to repair his image’

Two focus groups and one online poll each week until February 2023 will take the total outlay to above £1.35m, Labour protests

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak signs off half a million of taxpayers' cash for focus groups and polls

Labour accused Rishi Sunak of spending taxpayers' money on "a vanity exercise for a Chancellor desperate to repair his image."

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson under pressure to explain meeting with Sue Gray

BORIS Johnson is under pressure to explain a meeting with Sue Gray over her highly-anticipated partygate report.

The National (Scotland)

UK PM Johnson must explain meeting with 'partygate' report author, says opposition Labour

Britain's opposition Labour Party has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to explain why he met a senior civil servant to discuss publication of her final report into parties held at Johnson's Downing Street office during COVID-19 lockdowns.

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Keir Starmer Beergate - what happens if Labour leader resigns? How contest could unfold

Keir Starmer's political future hangs in the balance after he said he would resign if police fine him over 'Beergate'. So what would actually happen if he did quit?

Daily Mirror

Prime Minister pressed to 'urgently explain' meeting with Sue Gray over partygate report

Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, called on the Prime Minister to explain

Manchester Evening News

Boris Johnson asked to ‘urgently explain’ meeting with Sue Gray over independent partygate report

The pair are understood to have held a meeting to discuss the report's progress

Wales Online

PM pressed to ‘urgently explain’ meeting with Sue Gray over partygate report

Labour says public confidence in the process has already been ‘depleted’, and people ‘deserve to know the truth’.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak's Treasury spent £250k on focus groups in a single year

More than half of the sessions run by Hanbury Strategy were conducted in Tory target areas in the North, Midlands and Scotland

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak blasted for using 'Computer Says No' excuse to cut benefits for millions

The Chancellor admitted 'it sounds like an excuse' after he blamed IT 'problems' for a real-terms benefit cut. Experts told the Mirror there were computer difficulties with some benefits - but they are no reason not to act

Daily Mirror

Police issuing more than 100 partygate fines is ‘non-story’, minister says

Jacob Rees-Mogg played down the importance of the news, questioning whether ‘the rules were right in the first place’.

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt does not rule out leadership contest before 2024 election

The senior MP said the ‘setbacks’ the party suffered in last week’s local polls were not just ‘mid-term blues’.

The Independent UK

Watchdog investigates amid cover-up allegation over Lebedev peerage details

Labour told Boris Johnson to ‘come clean’ if he has nothing to hide as the Government withheld full details of the appointment.

The National (Scotland)

Tory ministers accused of cover-up as release of Lebedev peerage details is blocked

THE UK Government has been accused of a “cover-up” by Labour after withholding detailed security advice over Russian-born businessman Evgeny…

The National (Scotland)

What has been said about partygate after latest fines?

THERE has been plenty of reaction from the political world since the announcement 50 more fines have been issued by the Metropolitan Police as part…

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The Independent UK

Ministers accused of cover-up as release of Lebedev peerage details is blocked

Questions have emerged whether Boris Johnson intervened to ask the security services to reconsider their assessment.

The Independent UK

PM and Cabinet Secretary unscathed in latest tranche of partygate fines

The Metropolitan Police has made around a further 50 fixed penalty notice referrals as part of its investigation into lockdown-breaking party claims.

The Guardian - UK

Under Boris Johnson, the rights of working women have become a feeble joke

The government promised us an employment bill to protect women at work. Where is it, asks Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner

Manchester Evening News

Angela Rayner jokes Tory MP Lee Anderson will be eating Space Raiders for dinner after foodbank comments

The Tory MP faced calls to apologise after suggesting people relying on foodbanks could make a meal 'for about 30p a day'

Manchester Evening News

The battle for control raging inside Tameside council's Labour group

Council leader Brenda Warrington has accused her would-be successor of a ‘hostile challenge’ that has created a ‘huge division’ in the group

Daily Mirror

Next Labour Party leader odds as Keir Starmer stakes future on Beergate gamble

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has gambled his leadership on being cleared by Durham Police in an investigation of allegations he broke Covid lockdown rules while having a curry. Starmer has said he is "absolutely clear" no rules were broken

The Guardian - UK

Beergate: Labour MPs wary of internal manoeuvring after Starmer pledge

Suspicions ambitious shadow ministers see situation as ‘win win’, with leadership contest on horizon if Starmer goes

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