Politics LIVE as Boris Johnson facing huge Tory rebellion over foreign aid cut

Boris Johnson backing Matt Hancock "risks jeopardising vital public health measures", the SNP said today. The party said the Prime Minister's decision to retain the under-fire Health Secretary over his interaction with Gina Coladangelo raised "very serious questions".

Michael Gove to cover public attitude to Brexit, rebuilding after the covid crisis and “attitudes to the UK Union”.The contract is being challenged in court because Public First is run by husband and wife policy team, James Frayne and Rachel Wolf, both of whom previously worked with Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings.Blackford said: “In the middle of a pandemic Tory Ministers secretly directed funds from an emergency Covid contract to carry out polling on the Union.”He asked Johnson to confirm

Scottish independence referendum has been ruled out until after the next general election in May 2024, Michael Gove has said. The Cabinet Office minister announced that Boris Johnson is keen to focus on coronavirus recovery rather than having to deal with another vote.

covid pandemic "for the lifetime of this parliament". Gove, who is responsible for countering the push for indyref2, has went further than any UK Government minister before in stating that it is the wrong time to hold a vote.

COVID-19 rules, with all restrictions in the UK set to end on July 19 under new guidance set out by Boris Johnson last week.Industry bodies including LIVE (Live music Industries Venues and Entertainment), the Concert Promoters Association, the Events Industry Forum and the UK Crowd Management Association have written to Johnson detailing staff shortages across the music industry, and calling for the government to help fill vacant roles.“While the overall picture is complex, one short-term

Burnham has charged Sturgeon with treating the north of England with the same contempt she claims Boris Johnson treats Scotland by announcing a travel ban to the Manchester area without notifying him. The First Minister announced a travel ban for Scots to Manchester and Salford on Friday but the Labour mayor was infuriated that she did so without notifying him.

Wales the right to vote. The First Minister is coming under increasing pressure from Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to compensate businesses in the area after Sturgeon announced a travel ban on Friday.

Indyref2 by making Ruth Davidson the leader of the pro-Union campaign.

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Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings has published a WhatsApp exchange in which the Prime Minister appeared to describe UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s performance as “totally f***ing hopeless”.The former Downing Street adviser renewed his attacks on the UK Health Secretary on Wednesday in a blogpost detailing evidence of what he described as the "covid disaster" caused by Hancock.Cummings,

Scotland too. Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow home secretary, used a speech on Tuesday to slam the government’s covid borders policy as Labour prepared to force a Commons vote calling for the amber travel list to be scrapped.

Follow all the latest updates on our blog below. A delay to lockdown easing may also help break the link between infections and hospital admissions, a public health professor suggested.Professor Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, told LBC that the variant first identified in India now accounted for the majority of UK cases, but the death rate among people with this infection was low."You can see amongst people who were infected with this variant, the mortality rate was 0.7%, just 12

Selena Gomez has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to donate all of the UK's surplus coronavirus vaccines to poorer countries. The 28-year-old pop star has hit out at the politician after he announced that the UK will have donated five million surplus doses of coronavirus vaccines by September.

Selena Gomez has tweeted at Boris Johnson criticising him over his announcement that the UK will have donated five million surplus doses of coronavirus vaccines by September. Tiktokker suffers heart-attack after trying out the popular 'dry scooping' challengeTrump claims he is trying to ‘save’ democracyDermot O’Leary has heated debate with anti-vaxxer Beverley Turner.

US President instructed his senior diplomat in London to deliver an official dressing down of UK’s Brexit Minister Lord Frost in a rare diplomatic move between allies. Yael Lempert, a senior official at the US Embassy in London, reportedly told Brexit chief Lord Frost that the UK government was “inflaming” tensions in Northern Ireland by disregarding the customs protocol agreed with the EU.

Keir Starmer over the decision to cut to the foreign aid budget by 0.2 per cent. Opposition MPs, charities and many Tory politicians are up in arms over the UK Government 's decision to slash funds to some of the poorest countries in the world.

Prime Minister’s official spokesman made clear that ministers did not believe a Commons vote was necessary. The official said: “We are acting in accordance with the act as set out.

Noel Gallagher has blasted Boris Johnson a “fat cunt” over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.The Prime Minister has faced intense criticism over his perceived lack of leadership throughout the pandemic, with the virus claiming the lives of 128,000 people across the UK.Speaking in an interview with The New Cue, the Oasis icon said: “Boris Johnson has proved himself not to be the fucking man in the crisis.