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Helen Whately declines to endorse former health secretary’s 2020 assertion as pandemic public inquiry begins in earnest

Every time London Fashion Week ostentatiously saunters around (wearing an unnecessarily jaunty hat and a pair of Astroturf pantaloons), Number 10 decides to throw a party. These celebrations are organised for precisely the same reasons Downing Street throws parties for farmers, boffins or the Welsh; to show they care.

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock feared he was about to be shoved down a Tube escalator during a confrontation with an anti-vaccine protestor, a court has heard.

Geza Tarjanyi, 62, of Leyland in Lancashire, has denied causing harassment without violence to the former health secretary.

Climbdown over procurement law follows rebellion by senior Tory MPs

Hugo Keith KC said the Cabinet Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) had both submitted correspondence but had removed…

Both the Foreign Office and Cabinet Office had made submissions containing redactions, the chairwoman was told.

The Information Commissioner told MPs that ministers and senior officials should not use WhatsApp’s ‘disappearing messages’ function.

Former health secretary Matt Hancock made a verbal apology in the Commons after being found to have committed a ‘minor breach’.