Sue Gray’s report into Covid lockdown rule-breaking in Downing Street has finally been published. Jessica Elgot analyses what it means for Boris Johnson’s future
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Coleen Rooney not seeking compensation after ‘Wagatha Christie’ verdict
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Coleen Rooney does not want any compensation or retribution following the “Wagatha Christie” libel trial, according to her lawyer, who said she is “just glad that it’s over and that she can get on with her life”. On F...
‘Wagatha Christie’ trial: verdict due in Vardy v Rooney libel case
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It has taken almost three years of legal arguments, millions of pounds in lawyers’ fees, and an often excruciating public trial – but at noon on Friday the world will finally learn who has won the “Wagatha Christie” l...
How well did the Tory leadership candidates do in the second TV debate?
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Sometimes in TV debates there are clear winners. It often happens in the first debate of a series, when viewers do not know what to expect, and it happened last week, when Rishi Sunak and Tom Tugendhat clearly made a ...
Who should succeed Boris Johnson as Tory leader? Our panel’s verdict
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At a time when the world is increasingly unstable and extreme, and where the UK has turned away from the European Union, Britain needs a strong leader who will stand for the values of the west and protect our vital tr...
Johnny Depp’s lawyers urge judge not to toss Amber Heard verdict
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Lawyers for Johnny Depp have urged the judge in the dueling defamation case with Amber Heard to leave his $10m judgment intact after attorneys for Heard requested that the verdict be set aside, including on grounds th...
Boris Johnson has resigned. What now? Our panel’s verdict
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He’s gone. Political obituaries for this scoundrel can wait. Here’s where the Conservative party has landed us. Hours from sitting round his cabinet table, his ministers suddenly find him too unfit, too “reckless” eve...
What do the byelection results mean for the Conservatives? Our panel’s verdict
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Governments lose byelections, but these results are very grim for the Conservatives. Wakefield was expected to return to Labour and it did, with a substantial (but not spectacular) 12% swing from Tory to Labour. Tiver...
These byelection results are the verdict on a cruel and useless government that’s running out of road
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The voters of Tiverton and Honiton didn’t get the memo. Nor, it seems, did the good people of Wakefield. They were meant to have moved on, to have put Partygate behind them, to have realised that Boris Johnson got the...