my publishing their resignation letters, they have paragraphs about what boris johnson letters, they have paragraphs about what borisjohnson did well and ukraine was always coming up. i think we will see a continuation of his policy on these matters by whoever becomes executive leader. conservative leader. i m joined now by the whitehall editor of the financial times, sebastian payne. from inside the red wall as it were, how does this contest look? how worried are those mps who won seats under borisjohnson? these candidates may be very admirable but they are just not going to cut it in those places that, for the first time in some cases, gave their votes, lent their votes to the conservative party. votes, lent their votes to the conservative party. you can imagine nearly every conservative party. you can imagine nearly every contender conservative party. you can imagine nearly every contender is conservative party. you can imagine nearly every contender is probably l nearly e
allegedly against coronavirus rules in downing street and across the government estates in 2020. so i think we need to see the outcome of that investigation in the early part of this year, and there are lots of questions over covid restrictions. borisjohnson questions over covid restrictions. boris johnson obviously suffered the worst revolt of his career from backbenchers in the week before the parliament broke for christmas. again, ithink parliament broke for christmas. again, i think he faces a tricky time ahead if he wants to push ahead with tougher measures and has to rely on the opposition, potentially, to get those through. on the policy front there is another tricky area up front there is another tricky area up ahead. lots of interest in particular in seeing what is made of the levelling up a paper that was delayed before christmas. it is key to what borisjohnson has tried to shake shape as what borisjohnson is. i think critics have said it is an empty slogan, he needs to pr
for many of us, it is a bright start to the day. we ll see lots of sunshine emerge and we ll keep the sunny skies as we head through the afternoon top temperatures of around five to seven degrees celsius, of course dependent on that fog clearance. now, as we head through this evening and overnight, we keep the light winds and the clear skies. again, there ll be some more patches of mist and fog developing into tomorrow morning. a widespread frost temperatures in some spots could get as low as perhaps minus three or minus four degrees celsius. so frosty, foggy again to start of the day on friday, which is looking chillier and cloudier. lots more on our webiste including what borisjohnson s constituents in uxbridge think about the downing street party. i m back in half an hour. good morning, welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today. an apology from boris johnson about the downing street party but will it be enough to save the prime minister
could be advanced to move very fast. in the things they forget date that actually has shifted all the revelations about penn farthing in the rescue of 150 cats and dogs out of afghanistan. we were told by the prime minister last year that he was not involved in authorising that rescue, and lets river that rescue happened while they were afghan people who had worked with british forces who could not get out of afghanistan and people who needed to be rescued from afghanistan who did not make it out but somehow there was the british government authorising the removal of 150 cats and dogs. we now know actually that thatis and dogs. we now know actually that that is wrong and that borisjohnson lied to the public and there have been two e mails come out then have revealed that the prime minister did authorise that rescue. and i think that s significant because it s yet another example of the prime minister miss leading parliament which is very serious and it s one
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