Starmer claims win as PM proposes banning MPs from paid consultancy jobs
Keir Starmer has claimed a victory after Boris Johnson proposed that MPs should be banned from acting as…
Boris Johnson
How Labour plans on putting the screws to Johnson over Tory sleaze this week
The row sparked by the Owen Paterson £112,000-lobbying scandal has developed into an embarrassing mess for the Prime…
Johnson fails to draw line under sleaze row as Tory backbencher blocks motion
Boris Johnson has tried and failed to draw a line under the sleaze scandal. Two weeks after whipping Conservative MPs to back…
COP26 commitments to cut emissions by 2030 “still way short”, Starmer warns
The world is on track for “devastating” global warming even if all the commitments made by countries at…
Starmer urges Prime Minister: “We need to call time on the Tory sleaze scandal”
Countries agreed a watered-down climate deal as COP26 ended this weekend. India and China managed to force a last-minute change…
Johnson tries to hold back the tide as criticism threatens MPs’ second jobs
“What on earth must Geoffrey Cox’s constituents think?” Labour’s Thangam Debbonaire has asked. Cox himself says he is…
50 Tory MPs earned £1.7m in consultancy fees this year alone, analysis shows
New analysis of the parliamentary register of interests shows that 50 Conservative MPs have earned more than £1.7m…
Miliband: COP26 draft agreement leaves world “miles from where we need to be”
Ed Miliband has declared that the draft COP26 agreement leaves the international community “miles from where we need…
Boris Johnson loses opinion poll lead amid Conservative sleaze scandal
Research carried out partly during the ongoing sleaze row sparked by the Owen Paterson scandal has shown the…
Labour puts pressure on Boris Johnson over declaring luxury holiday freebie
Labour is putting further pressure on the government following the Owen Paterson controversy by demanding a “sleaze inquiry”…
