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From Gove to Cleverly: Who is on Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list?

Michael Gove, Simon Hart and Alister Jack have all been handed peerages – but who else made the cut?

The Independent UK

‘Parade of political flunkies’: MPs critical as Sunak awards Michael Gove a peerage

Lib Dem deputy leader condemns ‘reward for failure’ as former PM elevates allies to Lords in resignation honours

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove awarded peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list

Others on the list include former Scottish secretary Alister Jack, former chief whip Simon Hart and ex-transport secretary Mark Harper

The Independent UK

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Why Lee Anderson was called ‘a total k**b’ and what it means for Farage, Reform and Rupert Lowe

News analysis: Ahead of Reform’s big press conference on Monday, revelations about Lee Anderson’s defection a year ago in a new book have raised further questions about how Nigel Farage and his party have handled the Rupert Lowe row

The Independent UK

Ungovernable by Simon Hart review: A tale of brothels, backbiting, and Conservative politics

The revelations are out from Simon Hart’s book: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip. There’s the one about being woken at 4am by an MP who was being held in a Bayswater brothel by blackmailers, not to be confused with another MP, Mark Menzies, who found it difficult to…

Evening Standard

Ungovernable by Simon Hart review – House of ill repute

Jaw-dropping revelations from a Conservative former chief whip call into question not just the system, but his own judgment

The Guardian - UK

Chief whip’s diaries reveal rescue of Tory MP from ‘KGB agent’ in London brothel

From rescuing an MP from a suspected ‘KGB agent’ to MPs’ demands for peerages, stories from former chief whip Simon Hart’s diaries have drawn attention

The Guardian - UK

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Orgies, fights and ‘KGB agents’ in brothels: Most explosive claims from Tory chief whip’s new book

Simon Hart’s new book makes several eye-opening claims about the final days of Tory rule

The Independent UK

Tory MP in Bayswater brothel with 'KGB agent', 12 naked women and CCTV in desperate call to Chief Whip

A taxi was sent on an ‘extraction mission’ to rescue the Conservative backbencher

Evening Standard

The 2024 election’s ‘Portillo moments’: which ‘Big Beasts’ have lost their seats?

Defeats of Penny Mordaunt, Gillian Keegan, Grant Shapps and Liz Truss among the jaw-dropping moments of election night

The Guardian - UK

Big-name Tories who could lose their seat after exit poll predicts disastrous general election results

Rishi Sunak’s own seat of Richmond, in North Yorkshire is at risk - here is when high profile Tories expect to hear their results

The Independent UK

‘Don’t trust any of them’: Tories face wipeout in Wales, but Labour is on shaky ground too

Residents bemoan the 20mph speed limit, polluted waters and strain of the cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

London schools have become 'fourth emergency service' in mental health fight

Teachers are spending more time helping students with mental health, social care and finance problems

Evening Standard

Police 'reviewing letter' about Tory MP Mark Menzies after alleged misuse of funds

Lancashire Police says it is in the ‘process of reviewing available information in more detail’

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Tory activist ‘appalled’ by party’s response to Mark Menzies claims

Katie Fieldhouse says Conservative party failed to act after she reported incident in early January

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Tory decline: splits, sleaze and a rush for the exit

Editorial: Fresh allegations against a backbench MP highlight an end-of-era atmosphere in the Conservative party

The Guardian - UK

Tories putting party reputation before sexual assault claim, says alleged victim

Exclusive: Woman says central party paid £15,000 for her private health care but did not investigate her allegation against MP

Evening Standard

Lee Anderson suspended from Conservative Party after ‘refusal to apologise’ for Sadiq Khan Islamist claim

Pressure had been mounting on Rishi Sunak to take action over the comments from the Ashfield MP.

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The Guardian - UK

Lee Anderson stripped of Tory whip over Sadiq Khan comments

Claim by Ashfield MP that London mayor had ‘given our capital away’ to Islamists prompted widespread outrage

International Business Times UK

Chief Whip To Warn Tory MPs Who Rebelled On Rwanda

Last week, The Conservative Party witnessed its biggest rebellion in years after 60 MPs called on Rishi Sunak to tighten his grip on the Rwanda legislation.

The Independent UK

11 Cabinet ministers could lose their seats in upcoming election, according to Tory poll

A YouGov survey has predicted that several senior ministers are on track to lose their seats to Labour, Lib Dems and the SNP

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak accused of pettiness for denying MPs chance to pay respects to speaker Betty Boothroyd

Exclusive: Government refuses requests to delay parliament’s start time so MPs can attend Baroness Boothroyd’s memorial service

The Guardian - UK

Reform UK leader says party has not offered Tory MPs money to defect

Richard Tice responds to claims by Conservative deputy chair Lee Anderson that he was offered ‘a lot of money’ to switch

The National (Scotland)

Lee Anderson claims he was offered a 'lot of money' to defect to Reform UK

THE Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson has been secretly recorded claiming he was offered “a lot of money” to defect to Nigel…

The Independent UK

Cash for seats row as Farage’s party accused of offering Tory MP ‘a lot of money’ to defect

Party denies allegation but claims it has had discussions with Tory MPs, ministers and former ministers ‘furious’ with the ‘complete betrayal of the government’s promises’

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