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Labour steps up preparations to govern as Reeves attacks ‘unfunded’ Tory tax cuts

Shadow cabinet talk with Whitehall officials after Keir Starmer meets head of civil service

The Guardian - UK

University friend of Liz Truss and alleged Remainer Olly Robbins tipped to run Keir Starmer's government

Olly Robbins is rumoured to become one of the most powerful men in Britain

Evening Standard

To hit the ground running rather than face first, Labour must prepare for power now

Sir Keir Starmer and his key personnel need to be thinking about how to do government not after the election, but before the weight of its pressures is on their shoulders

The Guardian - UK

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Boris Johnson’s second day at the Covid inquiry: key points

The former PM addressed Partygate, ‘letting it rip’ and ‘eat out to help out’ in his second day of evidence

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson claims Partygate coverage is ‘million miles’ from truth in extraordinary rewriting of history

The former PM hit out at the ‘dramatic representations’ of what went on in No 10 – as he tied himself in knots and backtracked on his own witness statement

The Independent UK

No 10 culture led to better decisions, Boris Johnson tells Covid inquiry

Former prime minister denies he made major mistakes and defends top team during full day of questioning

The Guardian - UK

Ten times Boris Johnson was cornered by Hugo Keith at the Covid inquiry

Ex-Conservative leader faces tough questions from counsel Hugo Keith KC

The Independent UK

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Boris Johnson and mystery of the 5,000 missing Whatsapps as he appears before Covid Inquiry

Former PM gives apology to those who had lost loved ones and suffered during the pandemic

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson faces tough questions at Covid inquiry over handling of pandemic

Former prime minister to give evidence as mystery deepens over retrieval of WhatsApp messages

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s Covid charge sheet: from Partygate and flip-flopping to ‘letting it rip’

Security is beefed up at the Covid inquiry as the former PM finally faces grilling on decisions he made during pandemic

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson’s legacy will be shaped by Covid inquiry appearance

Discredited ex-PM faces a demolition job in one of the few policy areas to which he and his allies still cling

The Guardian - UK

Matt Hancock admits affair with aide damaged public trust in Covid rules

Ex-health secretary’s latest inquiry appearance reveals tensions between Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson over second lockdown

The Independent UK

Hancock messages claimed Sunak ‘would have pressured Johnson’ to avoid lockdown

Former health secretary also discusses discharge of patients to care homes during second day at Covid inquiry

The Guardian - UK

Endgame author Omid Scobie interview: Meghan, Harry, Kate and why the royals are tearing themselves apart

He’s the ‘royal insider’ often thought to be Harry and Meghan’s personal spokesperson who has now published a new blockbuster book full of killer revelations about the royal family and the blistering rows that could spell the end of the monarchy as we know it today. Here, Robbie Griffiths sits…

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Britain’s top civil servant won’t appear at Covid inquiry this year due to ill health

Inquiry chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett formally excused the cabinet secretary from giving evidence in 2023 ‘due to ill health’

The Guardian - UK

Whitehall infighting could hamper scrutiny of Telegraph sale

Foreign Office could stifle possible inquiry into bid from Abu Dhabi-backed fund RedBird IMI in absence of cabinet secretary

The Independent UK

Cabinet Secretary Simon Case could miss Covid inquiry evidence again due to illness

Cabinet secretary Simon Case’s evidence before the Covid inquiry appears to have been delayed for a second while he is on medical leave

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock to tell Covid inquiry he is being made scapegoat by No10 ‘to cover up failings’

The former health secretary’s allies believe he is being used as a ‘dead cat’, with witnesses so far criticising his ‘nuclear levels’ of overconfidence and painting him as a serial liar

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Evening Standard

Twenty seven of the most amusing and shocking claims from Nadine Dorries book The Plot

So, after so many exciting pre-publication puffs, Nadine Dorris’s book, The Plot, is out.

The Guardian - UK

A look inside Boris Johnson’s ‘feral’ No 10: this week at the Covid inquiry

Seven key moments, including top civil servants’ exasperation at chaotic environment in Downing Street

The Independent UK

Top civil servant’s foul-mouthed attack on ‘lying’ Matt Hancock at Covid inquiry

The inquiry also saw a message from Lord Sedwill to Simon Case saying Matt Hancock was ‘far up Boris Johnson’s a***’

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Plot by Nadine Dorries review: a conspiratorial mess that fails to exonerate Boris Johnson

So, what’s the story about Nadine Dorris’s The Plot, subtitled, The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson – just so you know, the subtitle sums up the gist. The former Culture Secretary – and the joke there was on us – gave up her parliamentary seat in August to write this…

The Independent UK

Top civil servant’s foul-mouthed attack on ‘lying’ Matt Hancock at Covid inquiry

The inquiry also saw a message from Lord Sedwill to Simon Case saying Matt Hancock was ‘far up Boris Johnson’s a***’

The National (Scotland)

Working with Boris Johnson's 'feral' team was like 'taming wild animals'

Working with Boris Johnson’s “brutal and useless” team was like “taming wild animals”, the two most senior civil servants who worked with…

Evening Standard

Top civil servant wanted Matt Hancock sacked as health secretary

Lord Sedwill joked it was necessary to remove Matt Hancock to ‘save lives and protect the NHS’

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