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Boris Johnson has given the green light to the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, promising £700m of government funding for the project. He confirmed the move during a speech from the site in one of his final acts as prime minister - and amid the rising cost of living crisis - saying he was "absolutely confident it will get over the line" in the next few weeks. The government has previously said the £20bn power plant would take just under a decade to build and could power six million homes. Mr Johnson is due to be replaced as...

Since Britain’s first prime minister took office in 1721, a total of 55 people have held the job. They’ve come from a variety of backgrounds and political persuasions, but they’ve all had at least one thing in common: They were white. The next prime minister may not be. Rishi Sunak, a 42-year-old multimillionaire of Indian heritage and former Treasury chief, is one of two finalists for the job, which will be filled early next month with a vote by rank-and-file members of the Conservative Party.

...Who is 47-year-old Liz Truss and how did she manage to overtake her rival Rishi Sunak in the race to succeed Boris Johnson? With 57.4 percent of the vote in the Conservative Party leadership contest, Truss can savour a comfortable victory over ex-chancellor Sunak. The outgoing foreign secretary's success is all the more satisfying because her challenger was initially the bookmakers' favourite to be the next prime minister. Truss's triumph can be explained by some strategic moves on her part that have played to the party faithful, but also by mishaps in the campaign of her rival. When the scandal-plagued...

Liz Truss will be the new UK prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest It was a closer result than many pundits expected, with Truss taking 57% of valid votes cast

You ain’t seen nuthin’, yet.Don’t be fooled into thinking this disaster movie is coming to an end.Rishi Sunak was quick off the mark last week with his pitiful, self-serving claims about having known the lockdowns were a bad thing but that despite him drumming his tiny fists on the table until they were a little bit sore no one would listen to him.He said his heroic efforts to avert disaster were deleted from the official records of meetings he attended.If that’s true – if minutes of meetings affecting government policy were doctored – then Sunak’s claims demand criminal investigation and...

Liz Truss urged Dominic Cummings to scrap hundreds of 'woke' civil service roles in an attack on Whitehall 'groupthink', a leaked document has revealed. As international trade secretary in 2020, Miss Truss's office called for the abolition of diversity and inclusion roles in the civil service. Her office reportedly signed off the document to Mr Cummings, who was then Boris Johnson's most senior adviser, criticising the 'risk-averse' Whitehall for its liberal 'groupthink'. And she lambasted the difficulty of firing poorly-performing officials, according to the Telegraph. A source close to Miss Truss told the paper the document represented how she would...

Tonight's Conservative Party leadership debate between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak was halted after presenter Kate McCann fainted during the live broadcast. Ms Truss held her hands to her face and said "oh my God" after a loud crash was heard - and then the contest was taken off air. TalkTV said Ms McCann is "fine" but that the channel had been given medical advice not to continue. "We apologise to our viewers and listeners," it added in a statement. As the debate was halted a message on TalkTV and The Sun's stream read: "We're sorry for the disruption to...

It is 7.30pm on a Wednesday evening and Donna, a 47-year-old care assistant, is sitting in her Wakefield home, wrapped in a shawl.Like many across the country, she has become acutely conscious of the rising cost of living. Increasing food, energy and diesel prices are already having a significant impact on her day-to-day life.Energy tariffs that offer cheaper “off peak” rates allow Donna and many others to shift their use of household appliances to the evening, or night time. Other adjustments, though, are more dramatic, like eating significantly less hot food.“I have noticed it recently,” she said. “My kids have...

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, fighting for his political life over revelations about his role in parties during strict lockdown, faces one of the most crucial weeks of his time in office -- and one that will likely decide whether he remains in 10 Downing Street, or is forced to step down.

Attends indoor event surrounded by thousands of maskless people.. An MP who claimed she felt “unsafe” around people who don’t wear masks proudly posted maskless photos of herself to Twitter enjoying a party surrounded by people not wearing masks. Whoops. “I feel incredibly unsafe in the chamber,” when Tories don’t wear masks Labour MP Zarah Sultana stated during a recent BBC News interview. ... Those fears were apparently absent when Sultana visited the MOBO awards in Coventry, during which she was photographed in close proximity to others at an indoor event attended by thousands. “The @MOBOAwards came to Coventry last...

Plans to introduce vaccine passports for access into nightclubs and large events in England will not go ahead, the health secretary has said. Health Minister Sajid Javid told the BBC: "We shouldn't be doing things for the sake of it." He said the government had looked at the evidence, adding: "I'm pleased to say we will not be going ahead." It was thought the plan, which came under criticism from venues and some MPs, would be introduced at the end of this month. No 10 stressed it would be kept "in reserve" should it be needed over autumn or winter....

Support for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative party has slipped behind the opposition Labour party to its lowest level since the 2019 national election, a poll showed, after announcing a tax rise to fund health and social care. The poll, conducted by YouGov for the Times newspaper, showed support for the Conservatives slump five points to 33%, with Labour up one point to 35%, ahead of Johnson's party for the first time since January. Johnson set out plans on Tuesday to raise taxes on workers, employers and some investors to try to fix a health and social care funding...

Actor turned London Mayoral candidate Laurence Fox has come up with yet another snappy campaign slogan… Don’t tell me what to do. F*** off. The Reclaim Party leader was being interviewed by Breitbart News, appropriately enough over a pint and cigarettes in a pub, while on the campaign trail in Sutton, South London. Woke has effectively cancelled his career as an actor. [He’s best known DS James Hathaway in Lewis]. So now he’s on a political mission to cancel woke. We’ve let the genie out of the bottle and the genie is that people will steadfastly bully people that don’t...

A Labour mayor who was expelled from the party after saying Boris Johnson 'completely deserves' his intensive care battle with coronavirus has now been suspended from her job and faces a disciplinary hearing. Councillor Sheila Oakes, who is currently mayor of Heanor in Derbyshire works as a paralegal for Nottingham law firm VHS Fletchers who were quick to distance themselves from her hard-hitting comments, revealing that she is now under investigation. In response to several complaints from members of the public, VHS Fletchers revealed in an email and via social media: ‘The views expressed by Ms Oakes are not shared...

They voted 358 to 234 - a majority of 124 - in favour of the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which now goes on to further scrutiny in Parliament. The bill would also ban an extension of the transition period - during which the UK is out of the EU but follows many of its rules - past 2020. The PM said the country was now "one step closer to getting Brexit done".

Working class communities deserted Jeremy Corbyn and Labour in huge numbers after Boris Johnson's vow to get Brexit done, a damning new election analysis shows today. The Tories won over the DE social class made up of the unemployed and unskilled workers by 13 points, an astonishing gulf for a Conservative leader. The lead, 47 per cent to 34 per cent - swallowed up Jeremy Corbyn's three point advantage among the same group in the 2017 election. And it also dwarfs the eight point lead that Ed Miliband enjoyed in 2015, which prompted his resignation as Labour leader. In more...

"Blowout" was how one UK newspaper described the decisive victory of Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party in last week's election. How decisive was it? Not only did conservatives win an 80-seat majority in Parliament, a constituency in Blythe Valley in Northeast England elected a conservative member for the first time since its creation 40 years ago. Pundits leading up to the election were wrong, as usual. They predicted a very tight race. What is it about pundits that they are so often wrong, including in the U.S., but they get to keep prognosticating anyway? The election was viewed as...

Boris Johnson has thanked the first-time Tory voters who have handed him an “overwhelming mandate” to get Brexit done, and offered an olive branch to those who opposed him. Speaking on the steps of Number 10 Downing Street, the modest official residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Johnson related that he had been formally invited to form a new government by Queen Elizabeth II, and pledged that he would lead a “people’s government”. “I’m proud to say that members of our new One Nation government, a people’s government, will set out from constituencies which have never returned...

The Tories have taken a string of former Labour strongholds, as an exit poll suggests they are set to win the election with a comfortable majority. Labour have lost seats in the north of England and Wales in areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum. The results point to the BBC/ITV/Sky exit poll suggesting a Tory majority of 86 as being broadly accurate, although most seats have yet to declare. Labour are set to win 71 fewer seats than in 2017, the exit poll suggests. The Scottish National Party have made their first gains of the night, taking...

Live Updates: U.K. Votes in General Election Britain’s voters head to the polls to choose their next government on Thursday in a deeply divided moment for the country that has left the outcome unpredictable. RIGHT NOW Voting has begun in the British general election, the second since the country’s landmark Brexit referendum.