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Mike Pence and Liz Truss among VIPs who speak at Iranian dissident rally despite pressure from Tehran

Dozens of prominent US and UK politicians attend events despite warning of terror threat by US embassy

The Independent UK

Tightwad Rishi Sunak gives £10 wine to local school after $3million US college donation

The mega-rich PM who is worth more than half a billion pounds picked the cheapest wine from the House of Commons shop to donate to Leyburn Primary School in his constituency

Daily Mirror

Braverman says appeal court ruling on Rwanda ‘disappointing for majority of British people’ – as it happened

Home secretary says government will seek leave to appeal against judgment as she gives statement to MPs

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Johnson may be humiliated, but Sunak looks weaker than ever before

Last night's House of Commons votes was as damaging for the current Prime Minister as it was for his former boss, writes Liam Thorp

Liverpool Echo

UK lawmakers likely to back a scathing report that slammed Boris Johnson over 'partygate'

Britain’s House of Commons is likely to endorse a report that found Boris Johnson lied to lawmakers about lockdown-flouting parties in his office

The Independent UK

David Warburton: Tory MP formally quits over cocaine use and harassment allegations

David Warburton’s resignation as Somerton and Frome’s MP leaves Rishi Sunak facing another by-election battle

Evening Standard

Warburton formally quits as MP over cocaine use and harassment allegations

David Warburton’s resignation as Somerton and Frome’s MP leaves Rishi Sunak facing another by-election battle.

The Independent UK

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David Warburton accuses House of Commons watchdog of preventing him from ‘speaking out’

Warburton stood down from his seat of Somerton and Frome to leave Rishi Sunak facing another potentially damaging by-election

The Independent UK

House of Commons watchdog denies claims from ex-Tory MP

David Warburton stood down from his seat of Somerton and Frome to leave Rishi Sunak facing another potentially damaging by-election.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson Q&A: why report into misleading parliament still matters, even after he resigned as an MP

The House of Commons Committee of Privileges has released a damning report on former prime minister Boris Johnson, ruling that he deliberately misled parliament over the partygate affair and recommending that he be denied a pass giving him access to parliament as a former member. The committee concluded that were…

The Conversation

Boris Johnson: freed from the constraints of office, the former prime minister could be even more dangerous

The House of Commons committee of privileges has published its long awaited report on the conduct of Boris Johnson and the conclusions are damming.

The Conversation

The 7 most damning findings from the report into Boris Johnson misleading parliament

The privileges committee report is packed with detailed criticism of the former prime minister

The Independent UK

Five ways Boris Johnson misled the House of Commons

The former PM resigned last week prior to the findings of the cross-party Privileges Committee report being published

Liverpool Echo

Boris Johnson committed 'serious contempt' of House of Commons with partygate denials

"This attack on a committee carrying out its remit from the democratically elected House itself amounts to an attack on our democratic institutions'

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The Conversation

Boris Johnson resignation: why Rishi Sunak can't afford to lose more than one of three impending byelections

The turmoil in the Conservative party unleashed by Boris Johnson’s abrupt resignation from parliament has triggered three separate byelections. The first is in the former prime minister’s London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, where he had a majority of just over 7,000 votes in 2019 with Labour in second…

The Conversation

Caroline Lucas and the heavy burden of being a party's only member of parliament

Green MP Caroline Lucas’s announcement that she will be leaving parliament at the next general election will have come as a surprise to many. Elected in 2010 as the party’s first ever MP, overturning a pretty thumping Labour majority, she has become something of a force to be reckoned with…

The Guardian - UK

‘Shocking’ figures show 8% of muggings result in a charge, say Lib Dems

Party’s research shows police did not even find a suspect in 30,079 incidents in England and Wales

Fortune

Is crypto trading the same as gambling? This U.K. parliament committee thinks so, and most crypto advocates—unsurprisingly—disagree

The Treasury Committee in the House of Commons said crypto assets have "no intrinsic value."

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The Independent UK

Parliamentary schedule for Wednesday May 17

Parliamentary schedule for Wednesday May 17We will be covering the House of Commons and House of Lords throughout the day.All timings are approximate and subject to business.House of Commons:1130 Scotland questions1200 Prime Minister’s Question Time1245 A 10-minute rule motion on Artificial Intelligence (Regulation and Workers’ Rights)1300 Digital Markets, Competition and…

The Conversation

Labour take note: red-wall voters want an ambitious plan for renewal – not tough talk and flag waving

If projections can be relied on, Labour has good reason to feel confident of supplanting the Conservatives as biggest party at the next general election. Yet it remains far from clear that Keir Starmer is heading for a House of Commons majority.

Daily Record

SNP has been sending 'cold calls' to auditors as accounts deadline looms

The party is at risk of losing more than £1 million from House of Commons authorities if it does not appoint auditors by the end of next month.

The National (Scotland)

SNP Westminster group could miss out on £1.2m if accounts deadline missed, says Flynn

Flynn said the party is doing 'everything possible' to meet the deadline but finding auditors for the group is proving difficult.

Daily Record

Shamed MP Margaret Ferrier appeals against Commons suspension recommendation

The former SNP member is fighting moves to kick her out of the House of Commons.

Daily Record

Joanna Cherry claims treatment of former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier by party colleagues is 'shameful'

Joanna Cherry said that former SNP MP Ferrier "is a thoroughly decent woman who made a bad mistake".

The National (Scotland)

Tories made 'political choice' to delay retirement age decision until next election

The Tories have postponed making a decision on when to raise the pension age to 68 until after the next General Election.

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