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Politicians 'reluctant to tell truth about mess UK is in', former Tory chair says

A FORMER chair of the Tory Party was applauded on Question Time after saying that politicians were not telling people the truth: 'We’re in one…

The National (Scotland)

Former Tory chairman warns Britain is in 'one hell of a mess' in savage attack

Lord Chris Patten told a BBC Question Time audience he has little in common with "flat earthers" within the modern-day Conservative Party as said the UK doesn't look like "a country which has things going for it"

Daily Mirror

King appoints Lord Patten and Baroness Ashton to Order of the Garter

The announcements for the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in the country are made on St George’s Day.

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Richard Sharp ‘unsuitable’ for chair, says former BBC boss

John Birt says appointment process for chairman ‘fatally flawed’ due to ‘cosiness’ of Boris Johnson loan

The Guardian - UK

Tory candidates both vow crackdown on illegal migration

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have pledged fresh measures to tighten British borders.

The Independent UK

Sunak pledges to cap refugee numbers while Truss plans to expand Rwanda scheme

THE UK will crack down further on refugees in the coming months regardless of who enters Downing Street, after both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak…

The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss BOTH lurch to right with grim migrant pledges

Rivals Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak vying to be Britain's next Prime Minister showed tonight that whichever way the scandal-hit Tories go, the UK will see further attempts to crack down on illegal migration - including the widely derided Rwanda asylum scheme

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Sunak and Truss promise crackdown on illegal migration

Both the Foreign Secretary and the former chancellor appeared united on the need to toughen up UK policy on migrants.

The Independent UK

Thatcher ministers turn on Liz Truss over tax cut plans

Chris Patten, Norman Lamont and Malcolm Rifkind warn former PM would never have approved borrowing to fund £30bn cuts

The Guardian - UK

The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten review – handover notes

The journal of Britain’s last governor makes for candid reading, supplemented by a polemical essay on Hong Kong 25 years on

The Guardian - UK

Hong Kong: 25 years under Chinese rule

Hong Kong has been through immense changes since it was returned to Chinese rule in July 1, 1997.

Al Jazeera

The Hong Kong ‘unofficials’ who advised Britain on the handover – and were ignored

Reviled by Beijing and dismissed by London, a group of local advisers tried and failed to ensure the interests of Hongkongers would be protected after 1997

The Guardian - AU

Boris Johnson victory at next election would be ‘disaster’ for Tories and Britain, says former party chair

Under current PM, government is not Conservative but English Nationalist, says Chris Patten

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson general election victory would be ‘disaster’, says Chris Patten

Former Conservative party chair says decision by Tory MPs to keep Johnson as leader was ‘terrible weakness’

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The Independent UK

Hong Kong's last UK governor says crackdowns 'heartbreaking'

The last British governor of Hong Kong says Beijing’s crackdown on civil liberties in the former British colony has been “a lot worse” than he expected

The Guardian - UK

Tory donors and polarised party losing faith in Johnson ‘cult’

Hotelier Rocco Forte demands PM changes course as Commons battle looms over tensions with EU

The Guardian - UK

Chris Patten: ‘We have a populist government that is – fatally – not popular’

The Tory grandee, publishing his diaries of his time as governor of Hong Kong, on the ‘greedy’ west giving China an easy ride – and his party’s ‘long nervous breakdown’

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Former Tory chairman Chris Patten slams 'moral vacuum' Boris Johnson on eve of local elections

The former governor of Hong Kong does not expect Thursday's elections to decide the PM's future, but said the "continuing pitter patter of fines" for lockdown breaches could do more damage

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The Independent UK

Boris Johnson labelled ‘moral vacuum’ over Savile comments by former Tory chairman

Lord Patten says some wings of the Conservative Party have ‘turned into an English nationalist, populist, Johnsonian cult’

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