Nadine Dorries ridiculed for claiming a ‘coup’ brought down Boris Johnson
“Has Nadine Dorries forgotten that she did the exact same thing to Theresa May?”
Conservative Party
Penny Mordaunt has accepted thousands of pounds in donations from donor linked to climate denial group
Mordaunt received the donation from a firm called ‘First Corporate Consultants, owned by Terence Mordaunt – a renowned critic of established climate change science’.
Priti Patel slammed for avoiding accountability after refusing to appear before Home Affairs Committee
“Not exactly in the spirit of the ministerial code”
Tory leadership contender Suella Braverman slammed for demonising the poor
Braverman of course completely overlooks the fact that 56% of people in poverty in the UK are in a working family and 7 in 10 children in child poverty are in a family where at least one parent works.
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
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Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs under investigation by HMRC
Revelations about the investigation are awkward for Zahawi, given that HMRC falls under the control of the treasury.
Resurfaced video shows Rishi Sunak admitting he has ‘no working class friends’
“Imagine having no working class friends. Unreal. I dunno why but I stupidly assumed that they at least knew normal people.”
The 8 biggest scandals that led up to Boris Johnson’s resignation
From Partygate to Owen Paterson and from Islamophobia to the Downing Street flat, Johnson’s government has been riddled with scandal
Lying, bigoted and incompetent Boris Johnson is finally booted from office
The lying, bigoted, incompetent prime minister that is Boris Johnson has finally been booted from office. His dragged-out departure, in which he set a record for the highest number of ministerial resignations in the space of 24 hours, has causedtest
Boris Johnson to resign as Prime Minister
A number 10 source has said that Johnson has spoken to Tory 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady and agreed to stand down, with a new Tory leader set to be in place by the party conference in October.
