Nadine Dorries book – your guide to the highlights Boris Johnson’s No 1 fan hurls insults at Tories she claims brought her hero down The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2023
Sunak is ‘stooge’ put in place by Cummings, claims Johnson in Nadine Dorries book Former PM’s attack on Rishi Sunak is made in Dorries’s book The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2023
Dominic Cummings reveals he had emergency eye operation sparking wave of 'Barnard Castle' gags online The political strategist was rushed to Moorfields Eye Hospital on Wednesday following a routine eye check-up Evening Standard · Nov 9, 2023
Johnson takes aim at Sunak, warning Tories are ‘drifting to defeat’ Boris Johnson’s comments came in conversations with Nadine Dorries for her book on his downfall. The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023
Boris Johnson says Tories ‘drifting to defeat’ in attack on ‘stooge’ Rishi Sunak PM moans to Nadine Dorries about ‘plot’ to oust him: ‘We could have kept the whole thing going’ The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023
‘I would make a stand. For Boris. My rock’ – Nadine Dorries’ The Plot, digested by John Crace The former minister stretches out a tale of a fiendishly fiendish Tory party conspiracy. Our sketch writer shortens the story The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023
Top civil servant’s foul-mouthed attack on ‘lying’ Matt Hancock at Covid inquiry The inquiry also saw a message from Lord Sedwill to Simon Case saying Matt Hancock was ‘far up Boris Johnson’s a***’ The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023
Britain’s former top civil servant apologises for suggesting chickenpox-style Covid parties The former cabinet secretary acknowledged the remarks could seem ‘heartless and thoughtless’ The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023
Covid inquiry hears more testimony about Johnson’s ‘brutal and useless’ No 10 Former civil service chief also says he did not trust Matt Hancock, the ‘over-promising’ health secretary The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023
Cummings warned over Downing Street ‘dictatorship’ by top civil servant The clash between Lord Sedwill and Dominic Cummings came in mid-March 2020. The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023
Sedwill apologises for bringing up ‘chickenpox parties’ during Covid The former Cabinet secretary acknowledged the remarks could seem ‘heartless’. The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023
Covid Inquiry latest: Lord Sedwill joked he wanted Matt Hancock sacked 'to save lives and protect the NHS' The Covid-19 Inquiry is hearing from Lord Mark Sedwill, the former head of the civil service who departed Government amid reported clashes with Dominic Cummings. Evening Standard · Nov 8, 2023
Sir Mark Sedwill: Ex-civil service chief who ‘clashed with Dominic Cummings’ to face Covid inquiry Sir Mark Sedwill was running the civil service when the pandemic struck but resigned in September 2020 Evening Standard · Nov 8, 2023
Ex-head of civil service who ‘clashed with Dominic Cummings’ to face inquiry Sir Mark Sedwill was running the civil service when the pandemic struck but resigned in September 2020. The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023 Claims and conspiracies, and pulling the trigger on Johnson: Dorries’ book tells all The Plot: the Political Assassination of Boris Johnson says a secretive Tory cabal brought down the ex-PM – and Rishi Sunak takes advice from ‘Dr No’
The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2023 Top officials called Johnson’s No 10 ‘mad’ and ‘poisonous’, Covid inquiry hears Cabinet Office’s Simon Case told cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill: ‘I’ve never seen people less well-equipped to run a country’
The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2023 Westminster is rife with ‘entitlement syndrome’. During Covid it cost lives I recognise this from my time in cabinet, says Justine Greening, former education secretary
Evening Standard · Nov 6, 2023 Former Boris Johnson aide Cleo Watson teases sex and scandal in new 'bonkbuster' novel Cleavage is Cleo Watson's second novel
The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023 The Covid inquiry must look at facts as well as guilt Letters: David Hughes hopes the inquiry will correct the lurch towards a presidential style of government. Plus letters from Peter Slessenger, Michael Lavin, June Findlater and Susan Mahoney
The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023 In Boris Johnson’s Lord of the Flies fraternity, women were there to be talked over or banished It’s little wonder that No 10’s misogyny had fatal consequences for the female population
The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023 Cummings vs MacNamara: the backstage clash at the heart of the UK’s Covid response Boris Johnson’s chief adviser and senior civil servant traded blows at the pandemic inquiry last week, describing horrifying levels of government chaos. The irony was how often their assessments agreed
The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2023 When Britain most needed a decent leader, we had a derelict at the helm The Covid inquiry testimony is an eviscerating indictment of Boris Johnson and a stain on the reputation of his enablers
The Independent UK · Nov 4, 2023 Nadine Dorries claims secretive Tory cabal called ‘the movement’ brought down Boris Johnson Extract from new book say former PM was told: ‘If you don’t go, I’m going to take you down. I’ll finish you off’
The Independent UK · Nov 4, 2023 James O’Brien, LBC’s mid-morning mouthpiece, on the problem with Farage, right-wing media and being a ‘heterosexual bruiser’ The notoriously opinionated radio host speaks to Louis Chilton about meeting Matthew Perry, the BBC’s ‘mess’ of an impartiality system, and why his new book tackles the 10 people who ‘broke Britain’
The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2023 Dorries claims Tory cabal called the ‘movement’ brought down Johnson Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove were key figures in group that controlled the Conservatives, says ex-culture secretary