5 things we learned from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s podcast this week
Jacob Rees-Mogg told Conservative Home’s Moggcast that he stands behind Boris Johnson, who he compared to Disraeli.
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Messier and messier: Boris Johnson’s biggest blunders of 2021
As rumour about the embattled PM’s future fizzes, we look back on Johnson’s second full year of office – 12 months beset with epic gaffes, U-turns, rebellions and clangers.
NHS privatisation: Nearly 3 quarters of people are worried for the future of our health service
The new Health and Care Bill would allow private companies to sit on bodies that decide how NHS money is spent
Number of Tory MPs refuse to wear masks even after Sajid Javid’s plea to ‘set an example’
“I’m looking round the house today and I’m looking at my Conservative colleagues… I think there’s four out of fourteen wearing a facemask this morning.”
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, September 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Lib Dem conference: Party tries to woo Tory voters
Having overturned a 16,000 majority in Chesham and Amersham, the party is confident that it can win over more disgruntled Tory voters.
Five unforgettable blunders by Gavin Williamson as rumours about his future grow
A look back a political career characterised by gaffes
Calls to investigate senior Tory who coached corporate clients on handling MP scrutiny
James Gray MP accepted payments to train witnesses ahead of select committee appearances.
Official Secrets Act: Tory proposals are part of a long history of suppressing journalism to hide government misdeeds
The government wants to toughen the law again for the digital age. But the real target is journalists and their sources.
Unite’s Steve Turner says ‘no one can get close to his record’ and calls on Labour to offer ‘real opposition’
‘I am standing on my record and nobody can touch that, they won’t even get close.’