The “trial of Boris Johnson” – the televised hearings to determine whether the former prime minister lied to parliament – is now barely three weeks away, and after Friday’s document dump we know roughly what that confrontation will look like. And we know it will be explosive. MPs on the Tory-dominated privileges committee on Friday
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In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon HQ2 rendering showing the Helix, which includes work space, will also be open to the public select weekends every month. Courtesy: NBBJ Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters, dubbed HQ2, in Virginia, the company confirmed to CNBC on Friday. John Schoettler, Amazon’s
Feb 27, 2023 Jeff Wagenheim Jon Jones returns this weekend. Allow me to repeat that with appropriate emphasis and enthusiasm: Jon Jones! Returns! This weekend! I had to resist the urge to go all caps there, because this is BIG. Jones will be fighting for the first time in over three years when he steps
When Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury city centre – five years ago to this day – few would have known that a huge diplomatic crisis was about to erupt. Mr Skripal, a former Russian intelligence officer turned British double agent, had been targeted with the deadly
When Elvis star Austin Butler arrived at this year’s BAFTA Awards, it wasn’t his model girlfriend Kaia Gerber who accompanied the actor as his plus-one. Instead, Butler attended the ceremony with Polly Bennett, the movement coach who spent months working with the star to help him transform into The King. When the camera panned to
Support for energy bills from the government is expected to continue for three months from April, protecting consumers from an average increase of £500. Sky News understands the chancellor will cancel a reduction in support that would have seen typical annual bills rise from £2,500 to £3,000. In recent days, the government has asked energy
Boris Johnson says he believed “implicitly” that he was following COVID rules after a committee of MPs said it would have been “obvious” the rules were being broken around him at Downing Street gatherings. He also suggested that Sue Gray, who led an earlier civil service report into parties and has just been appointed Sir Keir
A mother and father who went missing with their newborn baby have been found and arrested, police say. But police are now searching for their baby in the area around Brighton. #shorts #police #missing SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us
CNN’s Erin Burnett details the desperation and brutal reality of Russian soldiers as war rages on in Ukraine. #CNN #News #shorts
Evidence strongly suggests it would have been “obvious” to Boris Johnson COVID rules were being breached at Downing Street gatherings he attended, an inquiry into whether he misled parliament has said. MPs on the cross-party Commons Privileges Committee were tasked with investigating whether Mr Johnson misled parliament over partygate allegations after Sir Keir Starmer tabled
Arctic Monkeys and Guns N’ Roses will join Sir Elton John in headlining this year’s Glastonbury Festival, meaning all the top-billed acts will be male. The Glastonbury line-up also includes Christine And The Queens, Fatboy Slim, Lana Del Rey, Lewis Capaldi, Lil Nas X, Maneskin, Rudimental, Manic Street Preachers, The War On Drugs and Royal
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The exterior of an Aston Martin store. Jeremy Moeller | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — British luxury carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda forecasts better profitability this year, after widening its 2022 pretax losses on the back of a weakening U.K. currency. The company more than doubled year-on-year pretax losses to £495 million ($598
A major Cambridge-based microchip designer has decided not to list on the London Stock Exchange, despite lobbying from three UK prime ministers. Arm, the Japanese-owned and Cambridge-headquartered company, announced on Thursday night it would list on the New York Stock Exchange, snubbing the City of London. Its owner, the giant Japanese technology investor SoftBank, spent
A mother who killed her five children has been euthanised at her own request – 16 years to the day after their murders, her lawyer has said. Genevieve Lhermitte slit the throats of her son and daughters – aged three to 14 – with a kitchen knife at their family home in the Belgian town
The Honor Magic Vs is on display at Honor’s stand at Mobile World Congres in Barcelona. The near $1,700 device is Honor’s attempt to challenge Samsung in the foldable smartphone market. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Honor CEO George Zhao has a simple philosophy — make the best products and the sales numbers for the Chinese
Ministers and the country’s top civil servant talked about the need to “get heavy with the police” to make sure the public obeyed lockdown rules during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The claim is the latest to be revealed from the thousands of WhatsApp messages sent to or from then health secretary Matt Hancock
It caused Northern Ireland’s government to collapse and the EU to start legal action against the UK – but we now finally have a new deal over the Northern Ireland protocol. Sky’s political correspondent Rob Powell explains what this new Brexit deal means, and what happens next. Read more here: https://news.sky.com/story/uk-and-eu-agree-new-deal-on-northern-ireland-post-brexit-trade-rules-senior-government-source-12820788 #Brexit #northernireland SUBSCRIBE to
Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, acknowledged in a deposition taken by Dominion Voting Systems that some Fox News hosts endorsed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Murdoch’s remarks were made public in a legal filing as part of Dominion’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News. CNN’s political analyst Maggie Haberman and
Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of murdering his wife and son after a six-week trial that revealed the prominent lawyer’s spectacular fall from grace. The 54-year-old shot his wife Margaret, 52, four or five times with a rifle outside dog kennels on their rural Colleton County property in South Carolina on 7 June 2021. On