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Half our MPs will be women, pledge Tories after Neil Parish porn scandalConservatives seek to reassure voters they can contain sleaze as MP quitsIn November 2020, Boris Johnson appeared to commit the party to equal gender representation in a video for the 50:50 Parliament campaign.
Lord Frost urged to stand for Neil Parish's seat in by-electionAllies have described the former Brexit minister as a 'proper Conservative' with 'star quality' who could be a successor to Boris JohnsonLord Frost is being urged by allies to stand in the by-election that will be created by Neil Parish's departure from his traditionally safe Conservative seat, The Telegraph can disclose. ...
Angela Rayner demands answers from Boris Johnson over alleged 'Sexist of the Year' award at lockdown-busting Downing Street eventAngela Rayner has written to Boris Johnson demanding answers over reports that a 'Sexist of the Year' award was handed out at a lockdown-busting Christmas party in Number 10.Labour's deputy leader has called on the prime minister to confirm whether or not the award was presented at a gathering in Downing Street in December 2020, as originally reported in the Sunday Times.In a letter, Ms Rayner says if such a presentation did take place, the government must release information stating who gave out the award, who was nominated for it and why, and who was presented with the prize...It continues: "You have claimed on the record this week that there is "no place" for sexism in politics, and yet there are now serious and credible allegations in the Sunday Times that sexist behaviour has not only taken place in your own office but has been celebrated and rewarded."
‘Is this wise?’: Emails ‘show officials planning events at Downing Street’ during lockdownWhitehall mandarin Sue Gray’s report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street will include details from emails suggesting “premeditation” among officials planning events, it was claimed today.One unnamed source told the Sunday Times that the report will show that rules were “wilfully broken”, with one official breaking into discussion on the venue for a planned event to ask: “Is this wise?”Planning is a key factor in assessing the seriousness of any breaches...One source told the Sunday Times: "The most shocking thing Sue’s report has uncovered is a series of emails which expose the extent to which the parties were premeditated and the rules were being willfully broken. She is also concerned by the lack of contrition shown by those who have been found to have broken the rules."
Boris Johnson’s defence on Covid risk to care homes hit by new revelationBoris Johnson’s claim that a lack of knowledge about the asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 put care homes at risk has been further undermined after it emerged he openly discussed the potential scale of symptom-free transmission.The prime minister has already been accused of misleading parliament over the claim. He made it last week after the high court ruled that the government had acted unlawfully in ordering the discharge of patients to care homes without testing in the spring of 2020. Johnson told the House of Commons: “What we didn’t know in particular was that Covid could be transmitted asymptomatically.”However, the prime minister commented on papers examining the issue at a Covid press conference on 25 March...At the press conference, he asked chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance about reports that many people could have the disease without symptoms. “Patrick, on the numbers of people who have the disease asymptomatically, there was a study I saw quoted from some Oxford academics saying that as many as 50% may have had it asymptomatically,” he said.
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