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Liz Truss to approve up to 130 new oil drilling licenses as soon as she becomes PM
The climate change committee has previously said it takes an average of 28 years for an exploration licence to lead to oil and gas production.
Tory mega-donor demands leadership race rule change to prevent Boris Johnson-style ousting
“If nothing changes, if Boris goes and this [party] constitution remains the same, I’m not interested.”
Billionaire Tory donor closes busy main road in South Kensington for gardening work
Richard Caring, the owner of the Ivy restaurant and who is estimated to have a personal fortune of over £1bn, secured permission from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to close part of Onslow Square for two weeks so that he could complete the gardening work.
The only chart you’ll need to prove Tory levelling up is a sham
So much for levelling up...
Emily Maitlis says BBC was keen to ‘pacify Number 10’ over Newsnight monologue
"We show our impartiality when we report without fear or favour, when we’re not scared to hold power to account, even when it feels uncomfortable to do so."
Who is Sir Robbie Gibb, the ‘active agent of Tory party’, shaping BBC news output?
Gibb was appointed to the BBC’s board last year by Boris Johnson and has played an influential role assessing the impartiality of the BBC’s coverage.