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What Mandelson vetting row reveals about escalating tensions between ministers and civil servants

Keir Starmer’s decision to fire Foreign Office chief Olly Robbins has contributed to “one of the worst crises in relations” between ministers and civil servants in modern times. The words of former cabinet secretary Gus O'Donnell, writing after Robbins was sacked for declining to inform Starmer that Peter Mandelson failed…

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Woman plunged 9m to death through gap in wall near Barnard Castle

A coroner has warned future deaths could occur after a 78-year-old woman slipped through a gap in a protective stone wall and fell into the River Tees

Evening Standard

Starmer tells Labour MPs he is ‘not prepared to walk away’ after call for him to resign – as it happened

Prime minister addresses parliamentary Labour party amid Mandelson scandal fallout

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‘It could be a shoe or a stick’: Sajid Javid on being beaten by his father, petty crime – and turning his life around

As a young teenager, Javid and his brother were caught stealing from slot machines, arrested and held in a cell. His future hung in the balance. How did he get from there to the top of UK politics?

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Keir Starmer’s promise to deliver should have brought results by now

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The embattled prime minister is much more clear-eyed about the scale of the task ahead of him than many believe – but knowing what to do is not the same as getting on and doing it

The Independent UK

Whitehall Officials Will 'Bug Phones' To Smash Nigel Farage, Dominic Cummings Claims

Dominic Cummings claims Whitehall officials plan 'dirty tricks' against Nigel Farage. Explore the establishment's fears and Reform's path to power in 2026.

International Business Times UK

Hackers stole data in UK government cyberattack, minister confirms

The attack seems to have happened in October but the risk towards citizens is minimal.

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Sajid Javid told Boris Johnson he was Dominic Cummings’ ‘puppet’

Former chancellor also says Johnson was ‘least well briefed’ of the PMs he had served

The Guardian - UK

Covid inquiry lays bare unforgivable failures of Boris Johnson’s government

Letters: Readers respond to the official report on the handling of the pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Conservatives must apologise for their disastrous handling of Covid

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Covid inquiry’s conclusion that the needless loss of 23,000 lives was due to government decision-making at the start of the pandemic, made worse by the toxic and chaotic leadership of Boris Johnson, has yet to make many leading Tories of the day sufficiently penitent

The Independent UK

What is Dominic Cummings doing now?

With Boris Johnson’s former Chief Advisor back in the headlines, we look into what Cummings is doing now, and how his relationship with the former Prime Minister fell apart

Evening Standard

Nearly 6,000 Londoners died due to Covid within weeks after 'deadly delay' in ordering lockdown

Boris Johnson’s government was slammed by the Covid Inquiry for its ‘chaos’ and the ‘toxic’ culture in No10

Evening Standard

This shameful Covid report leaves no way back for Boris Johnson

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW : Editorial: That 23,000 people in England alone lost their lives because of the dithering of the former leader is a fitting – and awful – denouement to the political career of a man who was never up to the job of prime minister

The Independent UK

Ten bombshell findings from damning Covid inquiry report - including that lockdown could have been avoided

The Standard has compiled the 10 most shocking revelations from Baroness Hallett’s Covid-19 inquiry report

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'Lockdown may be only way to stop London NHS collapse in 15 days', Cummings warned Johnson as Covid virus spread

Details of fraught meetings at the heart of Government on how to protect the capital were laid bare in a damning report by the Covid Inquiry

The Guardian - UK

Covid report lays bare Boris Johnson’s complacency and lack of leadership

Damning analysis finds former PM failed to act with urgency and was disengaged in early stage of the pandemic

The Independent UK

Toxic No 10 culture, unnecessary deaths and failed children: Key takeaways from the Covid inquiry report

Boris Johnson failed to appreciate the ‘urgency of the situation’ and also failed to tackle a toxic culture in Downing Street, report says

The Independent UK

Johnson and Cummings oversaw ‘toxic and chaotic’ Downing Street – Covid inquiry

Baroness Heather Hallett’s report on the response to Covid-19 criticised Boris Johnson’s excessive optimism in the face of the looming pandemic.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories

Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Boris Johnson’s No 10, Covid inquiry finds

Report from inquiry’s second module also says Johnson as PM ‘at times actively encouraged’ chaotic culture

The Independent UK

The key players who presided over the government’s ‘chaotic’ Covid pandemic response

Baroness Heather Hallett's report on the response to Covid-19 criticised Boris Johnson's excessive optimism in the face of the looming pandemic and ‘oscillation’ on key lockdown decisions

Evening Standard

Government ‘chaos’ under Boris Johnson and failure to tackle Covid cost 23,000 lives, inquiry finds

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry was highly critical of former prime minister Boris Johnson and his team

The Independent UK

Covid chaos in Boris Johnson’s government led to 23,000 deaths, damning inquiry finds

Report finds PM and Dominic Cummings presided over ‘toxic and chaotic culture’ in Downing Street

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry latest: Bereaved families hit out at Johnson’s ‘deafening silence’ over pandemic mistakes

The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK campaign group said Boris Johnson’s pandemic actions were a ‘grave betrayal’ of the British public

Evening Standard

UK Covid-19 Inquiry to publish findings into decisions made by Boris Johnson

During hearings, the inquiry heard wide-ranging criticisms of Mr Johnson and his top team of advisers.

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