Angela Rayner has hit out at the Prime Minister's new staffing appointments - describing the move as 'frantically rearranging deckchairs'.
17.01.2022 - 14:53 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Keir Starmer has said he doesn’t care which Tory leader he faces in a general election as he renewed calls for Boris Johnson to quit.
The Labour leader said it was now “in the national interest” that the Prime Minister stands down as he has lost all authority to ask the country to abide by rules he broke himself.
Starmer was asked in an LBC radio phone-in whether he would rather face a wounded Boris Johnson in an election than a replacement Tory leader.
he replied: “I’ll take on whoever is and I don’t really care. I think that it is in the national interest that Boris Johnson goes now.
“Put the party politics to one side, he’s lost all authority and that matters, whichever party you’re in.
“We’re still in the pandemic, it’s very important that people behave in the way that we need them to behave, but he’s lost the authority to ask people to do so.”
He added: “But even if you put that on one side, we’ve got an energy bill crisis, we’ve got waiting lists in our hospitals, we’ve got Russian troops on the border with Ukraine, there are big issues going on. We’ve got a prime minister that, you know, is too weak to lead.”
Starmer also dismissed Tory attempts to smear him as a lockdown rule breaker by digging up images of him drinking beer in an office in the run-up to the May 2021 elections when coronavirus rules meant indoor socialising was banned in England.
He told LBC Radio: “The restrictions allowed people to work when they needed to, we were running an election campaign, we were in a constituency office.”
He said no restaurants or pubs were open and the hotel he and colleagues were staying in did not serve food so “if you didn’t get a takeaway then our team wasn’t eating that evening”.
Asked if he was prepared to apologise,
Angela Rayner has hit out at the Prime Minister's new staffing appointments - describing the move as 'frantically rearranging deckchairs'.
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Civil servant Sue Gray has published part of her long-awaited report into the partygate row. She has been investigating a number of rule breaking parties allegedly held during lockdown, including the 'bring your own booze' gathering on 20 May 2020. Now, an update from the report has been made available to the public. The inquiry covers a total of 16 separate gatherings on 12 different dates. Ms Gray is understood to have pared back the report following a request from the Metropolitan Police. The wording of a government statement issued on Monday (31 January) suggested that the official may wish to publish a fuller-version of the results of her inquiry after the Met completes its investigation. But Downing Street said it will publish the Gray report in the full form it has received from the inquiry team - and did not commit to publishing a fuller version in the future.
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Professor Green has taken aim at Prime Minister Boris Johnson with his new single ‘Dance Like A Tory’ – listen below.The London rapper – real name Stephen Manderson – released the satirical song today (January 27) in response to the recent parties scandal that’s engulfed Downing Street and led to calls for Johnson to resign.‘Dance Like A Tory’ is described as “a playful prod at the privileged politicians who believed that they’re too important to follow the very rules that they made”. It arrives with a tongue-in-cheek video in which Pro Green takes on the role of Johnson at a coronavirus press conference.“It’s popping off on Downing Street / My favourite restaurant just closed down / The doors to 338 are closed / While Number 10 gets down,” Green raps in the single.
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Boris Johnson's daughter Romy was hit "quite badly" by Covid-19 but is now "on the mend", it has been reported. Last week, Downing Street had announced that a member of the 57 year old Prime Minister's family had tested positive for the virus, but did not specify who it was.The PM, who shares a stunning home with wife Carrie after a pricey refurbishment, had pulled out of a visit to Lancashire after Downing Street revealed he'd been in close contact a with relative who had coronavirus. At the time, a No10 spokesperson said he would "follow the guidance for vaccinated close contacts, including daily testing and limiting contact with others".
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Boris Johnson – check it out below.For their latest release, the satirical duo repurposed Rage Against The Machine‘s 1991 protest anthem ‘Killing In The Name’ in response to recent allegations that Downing Street hosted various parties during lockdown.The clip begins with the PM asking the British public to “limit contact with other people” during a coronavirus press conference. “Now you do what I tell you,” Johnson adds over an instrumental of the classic Rage single.“As you comply, I socialise/ With cheese and wine, and forty guys/ From ‘Next slide please’ to wine and cheese/ The rules you see, don’t apply to me,” Johnson says in the style of the original track.