ERG told by legal ‘star chamber’ that Rwanda bill is ‘partial solution’; PM says he was not aware of claims about Treasury by No 10 during CovidSunak says the PM had to balance competing interests during Covid.Only he could do that, because only he saw all the competing arguments made by different cabinet ministers.Your phone, you said, doesn’t retain,...

European Research Group of backbench MPs say bill should be withdrawn before vote on TuesdayUK politics live – latest updatesRightwing Conservative MPs have called the government’s Rwanda immigration bill “partial and incomplete”, and urged Downing Street to agree to amend it before a crunch vote on Tuesday night.A panel of two MPs and two lawyers convened...

UK’s then chancellor said there was ‘plenty of opportunity’ for scientists to raise concerns, but none didRishi Sunak did not discuss his flagship “eat out to help out” scheme in advance with scientific advisers or ministerial colleagues because it was a market-sensitive fiscal event, and also because it was only a “micro policy” within a wider plan,...

ERG told by legal ‘star chamber’ that the government’s Rwanda bill is ‘partial solution’; PM says jobs would have been at risk without Covid schemeSunak says the PM had to balance competing interests during Covid.Only he could do that, because only he saw all the competing arguments made by different cabinet ministers.Your phone, you said, doesn’t retain,...

Farage has been effectively dictating Tory policy for years, so cut out the middle man – and let Labour get on with quietly running the countryOn Sunday night, Nigel Farage was buried alive with a writhing tangle of snakes, before losing an election. Or to put it another way, he now has a reasonable idea of what leading the modern Conservative party...

ERG told by legal ‘star chamber’ that the government’s Rwanda bill is ‘partial solution’; PM says jobs would have been at risk without Covid schemeSunak says the PM had to balance competing interests during Covid.Only he could do that, because only he saw all the competing arguments made by different cabinet ministers.Your phone, you said, doesn’t retain,...