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Government triggers court battle against Covid inquiry after Boris Johnson WhatsApp row

The Cabinet Office was given until 4pm today to hand over a trove of Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages and notepads to the Covid-19 public inquiry after days of wrangling

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson’s messages are just the start of it: the government is run on WhatsApp

If off-the-record messaging is a worrying trend, the real problem is that Westminster is one big gentlemen’s club, says French journalist Marie Le Conte

The Guardian - UK

Interim Edinburgh Council director's £160k salary 'completely indefensible'

Councillors said the role was the highest-paid public sector role in Scotland, working out at over £400k a year on a full-time basis.

Edinburgh Live

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Making sure our public inquiries get results

Letters: We need a more rigorous system of accountability, says Michael Bichard, while Graham Murphy says we can’t rush the Covid inquiry

The Guardian - UK

We need the return of Miliband the elder

Brief letters: David Miliband on Iraq | Tory turn-off | PoW chapel | Expensive flower shows | Malvern beckons

The Guardian - UK

Deadline passes for Government to hand over Johnson papers to Covid inquiry

With just minutes to go before the deadline, Rishi Sunak said the Government was still considering its next steps.

The Independent UK

Who is Geraint Davies? Labour MP suspended over sexual harassment allegations

Two female MPs have told the BBC that they were warned about the behaviour of Swansea MP

Evening Standard

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Assa Samaké-Roman: 'The National champions the aspirations of a nation'

TIME is ticking on our offer for a year’s worth of The National from just £24…

The National (Scotland)

East Ayrshire Council publishes elected members' salaries - and their expenses - for the last financial year

The local authority has published a breakdown of councillors' salaries, their expenses and details over other expenditure.

Daily Record

Welshman behind the Secret Tory Twitter account wanted to hold 'bad, incompetent or stupid' people to account

Henry Morris has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers and even written a book

Wales Online

Labour councillor alleged by restaurant owner to have abused staff and failed to pay bill is investigated by his local party

The restaurant owner wrote a former complaint to the leader of the Merthyr Tydfil Labour Group over the alleged conduct of Councillor Gareth Lewis

Wales Online

Former community council chair allegedly 'hasn't attended a meeting in six months'

The dispute over her future has become increasingly sour in previous months, with numerous accusations of improper conduct levied back and forth between councillors

Wales Online

'I'm just a lump in bed, in agony and unable to feed myself - I want the right to die'

Jane Barnes told how she is now just existing in her care home as husband Colin looks on helplessly, and says she wouldn'y wish such an existence on her worst enemy

Daily Mirror

Dining across the divide: ‘She made me see working mothers from a different perspective’

One feels women are under pressure to return to work after having children, the other was keen to go back. Can they find common ground?

The Guardian - UK

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Manchester Evening News

Former deputy mayor to keep assistant role for another six months - and get £45k for a year's work

The former Labour MP's input is still required, a GMCA report says

Evening Standard

Labour’s hunt for celebs off to a slow start (but Baldrick’s back)

The party has spent £50,000 on a celebrity endorsements officer

Belfast Live

DUP MP Ian Paisley says it could be an 'ice age' before Stormont is restored

The MP said a "multi-billion-pound package" is needed from the UK Government to address Stormont's budget problems

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak ‘confident’ on Covid inquiry position as deadline to hand over Boris Johnson documents passes – as it happened

If Cabinet Office has failed to comply with inquiry’s order to disclose the documents it could face legal battle

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The Independent UK

Labour suspends veteran MP over claims he sexually harassed junior colleagues

Party will investigate reports of ‘incredibly serious allegations of completely unacceptable behaviour’

The Week

Is Boris Johnson tearing the Conservative Party apart?

It is almost a year since many Tories decided that Boris Johnson would have to go, “yet a whole two prime ministers later, it’s almost as if he never left”, said Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian.

The National (Scotland)

Anger as Scots council to pay £160k salary for six-month, part-time role

A SCOTTISH council has approved an “indefensible” contract for a six-month, part-time role ...

Daily Record

Dumbarton Scottish Parliament seat could be set for radical shake-up

New proposals revealed last week would move areas west of Helensburgh into an enlarged Argyll and Bute seat, which would stretch as far as Tiree.

Daily Mirror

Tory millionaire whines he is 'haunted' by having to pay tax on fortune after he dies

Mega-rich Nadhim Zahawi, who was sacked as Conservative Party chairman over his own tax dealings, is leading a group of MPs who are demanding Rishi Sunak helps the rich by axing inheritance tax

The Independent UK

Revealed: Damning note from Britain’s top civil servant that ‘doomed’ Liz Truss

The former prime minister lasted just 49 days in the job and was forced to resign in the wake of her disastrous mini-Budget

The National (Scotland)

Labour MP suspended amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour

A LONG-SERVING Labour MP has been accused of inappropriate sexual behaviour towards multiple women ...

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