Angela Rayner has repeated calls for the introduction of an ethics and integrity commission.
Angela Rayner has repeated calls for the introduction of an ethics and integrity commission and says Boris Johnson is unfit to uphold standards in public life. The deputy leader of the Labour party said: “Boris Johnson has shown himself unfit to uphold high standards in public life and is lowering the bar each and every day he clings to office, trying to rig the rules as he faces investigation for deliberately misleading Parliament.”
Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie, members of the cabinet as well as representatives of the opposition were spotted in the audience for this morning’s Trooping the Colour, which kickstarted the Queen’s jubilee celebrations. Earlier Johnson tweeted his congratulations to the Queen. He said: “The whole country, Commonwealth and world thank you for your unwavering duty and service. Vivat Regina Elizabetha! God Save The Queen!”
Priti Patel has suggested Tory plotters against the prime minister risk overshadowing the Queen’s jubilee celebration in the latest intervention from Boris Johnson’s cabinet supporters to try to head off a confidence vote in the prime minister. Speaking to the Daily Mail, the home secretary urged those pushing for Johnson to resign to “forget it” and warned that writing letters against him was a “sideshow”.
Republican campaigners have applauded a decision by Scottish Green MSPs to boycott a Scottish parliament debate celebrating the platinum jubilee by walking out en masse. All seven Scottish Green MSPs, including two government ministers – Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater – left the Holyrood chamber as Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister and Scottish National party leader, led celebrations of the Queen’s 70 years as monarch.
The UN refugee agency has said “a clear majority” of people arriving in the UK by small boats across the Channel should be considered to be refugees, in a challenge to the home secretary, Priti Patel. Patel told MPs and peers last year that 70% of people making the crossing were “single men who are effectively economic migrants”, and the government has repeatedly referred to them as “migrants”.
Asylum seekers who went on hunger strike over plans to send them to Rwanda have been threatened with faster deportation by the Home Office if they do not eat. At least 17 people from Syria, Egypt and Sudan, who are being held at the Brook House immigration removal centre near Gatwick airport, began the protest when they were told they would be sent to Rwanda on 14 June as part of a controversial new scheme.
It was “disingenuous” for the transport secretary to speak out about chaotic scenes at Britain’s airports as issues with staffing “have been on the radar for a long time,” Andy Prendergast, national secretary of the GMB union, said. Grant Shapps said on Wednesday the aviation industry must “do their bit” to resolve problems which have led to the disruption.
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