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Nadine Dorries backtracks on resignation as she demands answers about peerage

The delay could prolong Rishi Sunak’s by-election challenge

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries demands answers about peerage before she resigns

The delay could prolong Rishi Sunak’s by-election challenge.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson 'must have known' he had broken lockdown rules, Partygate report will find

The Privileges Committee is expected to conclude that the former PM deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown-busting gatherings in Downing Street

Daily Mirror

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Call for House of Lords to be scrapped to end 'grubby horse-trading' for peerages

Campaigners have renewed calls to scrap the House of Lords following controversy over Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list...

The National (Scotland)

Nadine Dorries has still not resigned as an MP - days after saying she would

She said on Friday that she was stepping down with immediate effect

Nottingham Post

Nadine Dorries has yet to formally resign as an MP - days after saying she would

She said on Friday that she was stepping down with immediate effect

Wales Online

Nadine Dorries could prolong Sunak’s by-election challenge with ‘unusual’ delay

The Prime Minister would welcome ‘certainty’ for her Mid Bedfordshire constituents as the Tory MP holds out on handing in her notice.

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Nadine Dorries vows to hold Rishi Sunak to ransom over resignation

Dorries ‘barely seen in Commons for six months’, says Sunak ally – as Tories say she must quit now

The Independent UK

Starmer claims Sunak ‘weak’ for failing to block Boris Johnson’s honours list

The pair clashed at PMQs after several days of Tory infighting.

The Independent UK

MPs cheer as it's officially announced in Parliament that Boris Johnson has quit

Chief Whip Simon Hart told MPs that a by-election will take place in Uxbridge and South Ruislip after the disgraced former PM announced he would stand down over Partygate

Daily Mirror

Watch: Rishi Sunak faces first PMQs after Boris Johnson’s resignation

Watch as Rishi Sunak faces Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 14 June, amid tensions with Boris Johnson over his resignation honours list.

The Independent UK

No 10 criticises Nadine Dorries for delaying her resignation – as it happened

PM’s office says Mid Bedfordshire deserves ‘proper representation’ and delay to resignation ‘obviously unusual’

The Guardian - UK

Nadine Dorries refuses to resign officially until No 10 explains her lack of peerage

Ex-minister responds to Downing Street pressure to stand down with demand for unredacted details of decisionUK politics live – latest news updates

The Guardian - UK

Nadine Dorries ‘to delay resignation until summer recess’ in fresh headache for Sunak

‘We don’t want to wait around, we want to get on with these things,’ a Tory source said

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Evening Standard

Tories to turn by-election for Boris seat into ‘referendum on Sadiq Khan’s Ulez’

Conservatives are seeking to turn a by-election in Boris Johnson’s former constituency into a “referendum on Sadiq Khan’s Ulez”.

Evening Standard

Publication of Partygate Privileges Committee report delayed after Boris Johnson outburst

The committee earlier said the former prime minister had made last-minute representations ahead of the release of its report

The Independent UK

Sunak faces questions over spat with Johnson as two by-elections loom

The Tories will give notice for two by-elections on Wednesday, including in the seat vacated by the former prime minister.

The Guardian - UK

‘Anyone but Tory’: blue wall Yorkshire village questions loyalty ahead of byelection

Bolton Percy residents who were ‘true blues’ say party has lost its direction in recent years

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The Conversation

Boris Johnson resignation: why Rishi Sunak can't afford to lose more than one of three impending byelections

The turmoil in the Conservative party unleashed by Boris Johnson’s abrupt resignation from parliament has triggered three separate byelections. The first is in the former prime minister’s London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, where he had a majority of just over 7,000 votes in 2019 with Labour in second…

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Boris Johnson has triggered a bumper byelection bonanza – I studied 148 past contests to find out what we can expect

The UK is facing three byelections in constituencies all vacated within 24 hours of one another. Former prime minister Boris Johnson announced he was leaving parliament with immediate effect on June 9, leaving his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituents in need of a new MP. His vocal supporter Nadine Dorries…

The National (Scotland)

Tories at war as Nadine Dorries blasts 'sinister forces who denied my peerage'

THE Conservative Party is in the midst of a civil war as it prepares to fight three by-elections caused by the resignations of Boris Johnson and two…

The Independent UK

Who is Charlotte Owen and why is she getting a peerage?

The 29-year-old aide among controversial names on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson trade blows as Tory civil war erupts over peerages

The Prime Minister and his predecessor indulged in a public slanging match over Johnson’s bid to give peerages to his cheerleaders

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson formally quits as an MP under archaic process

The former prime minister was appointed by the Chancellor to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern.

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson formally steps down as MP

Confirmation of ex-PM resigning Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat follows period of frequent overseas trips and Commons’ absences

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