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PM says it ‘wouldn’t be right’ for No 10 to interfere in any punishment given to predecessor

The Commons Privileges Committee is expected to haul the ex-PM in for a grilling next week as part of their probe into whether he deliberately misled Parliament about lockdown boozing in No10

Boris Johnson is scheduled for a televised appearance before the Privilege Committee next week.

The Prime Minister said his administration would be looking ‘at what our allies are doing’ with the Chinese-owned video sharing app.

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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wanted an £11bn boost to take account of the war in Ukraine and the rising threat posed by China, but has been forced to make do with far less

The party's defence spokesperson Dave Doogan said that the lack of funding means that salaries in the armed forces will be "uncompetitive", and that equipment and facilities will be "substandard".

UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget is a tricky one in terms of timing. Having announced a set of steadying measures in the autumn statement after the Truss/Kwarteng debacle, this budget is likely to be the last but one before a 2024 general election. This makes it a little early…

It must feel discouraging. Imagine winning election after election. Throw in a couple of referendums for good measure. You’ve earned the power to pass laws, move fast and break things. You also enjoy the latitude to appoint coteries and contemporaries to top jobs across the bureaucracy. Yet you look around…

New foreign and defence policy blueprint says Beijing represents an ‘epoch-defining and systemic challenge’ to UK.

Former PM says that he is why he backed Iraq War - to make sure White House called No 10 first in a crisis.