The time for warm words and lofty pledges is over. It’s time to close the divide: https://t.co/KPoOXnIxVA A woman who lost her mother to Covid-19 says the issuing of a fine to Boris Johnson shows he has broken Covid laws and is unfit to lead the country. Boris Johnson will start his summer holiday today, despite his premiership ending in less than five weeks time. In the Commons, the atmosphere among Tory MPs was mutinous with critics lining up to condemn No 10’s handling of the matter.

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The inquiry heard a note read from the diary of the former private secretary to the prime minister for public services, Imran Shafi. The note is claimed to have been from a meeting between Mr Johnson and then-chancellor Mr Sunak in March 2020.The group asks if a new variant emerges that requires fresh public health measures, will Johnson have the "moral authority" to impose them? You on the other hand did not. You broke those laws intended to keep us safe. You trampled on the sacrifices we and all the British public made," the letter from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group says. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here.

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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are currently competing to succeed Boris Johnson in Downing Street Credit: Liam McBurney/PA Boris Johnson continues: "I understand the anger many will feel that I myself fell short when it came to observing the very rules which the government I lead had introduced to protect the public. Asked about this perception of Mr Johnson, Mr Reynolds told the inquiry: “I think it’s fair to say the prime minister did, as it were, blow hot and cold on some issues.”

In a 2006 collection of journalism, entitled Have I Got Views for You, Johnson wrote about the increasing tendency of women to work, saying they had been “socially gestapoed into the workplace”. He wrote: According to ITV News, up to 30 people attended and were served cake. At the time, gatherings of more than two people inside were banned by law. Mr Johnson attracted further criticism by falsely accusing Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile while director of public prosecutions. Mr Reynolds denied the action was taken in a bid to conceal communications within the WhatsApp group, titled “PM Updates”, from the inquiry but accepted the inquiry was being discussed before disappearing messages were switched on. The prime minister’s authority was damaged by a confidence vote that saw 41% of his MPs try to oust him.

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This comes on top of the mass de-industrialisation of the 1980s and contributed to stripping the heart out of those communities the levelling up agenda is intending to reinvigorate. Boris Johnson has just tweeted about his call with the Russian president Vladimir Putin about the Ukraine crisis.Fuel bills for drivers and food prices have also risen due to the increased price of fossil fuels, as inflation surges to its highest levels in 40 years.