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Boris Johnson is facing a fresh police investigation after the Cabinet Office handed over evidence to cops regarding events at Downing Street and his Chequers country retreat during the pandemic

PM said to be considering emails sent to Cabinet Office’s ethics team about home secretary’s request for help

Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.…

Other lives: Senior civil servant whose work behind the scenes led to the licensing of bedsits and introduction of leasehold reform

The government has announced a U-turn on its plans to remove all EU laws from British statute books by the end of the year in a move that has been criticised by Tory Brexiteers. 

Senior Tories have criticised the move to cut back post-Brexit plans to scrap EU laws.

Former business secretary says '‘politicians need to stick to what they said they will do’ in attack on Rishi Sunak

Jacob Rees-Mogg blamed the Whitehall ‘blob’ for the delay

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove urged the Labour leader to ‘fess up’ about when he first approached the partygate investigator.