Matt Hancock to give Downing Street press conference at 5pm - watch live Downing Street tight-lipped over funding of Boris Johnson's flat refurbishment Queen's former private secretary to be Boris Johnson’s new adviser James Dyson: BBC twisted truth over my links to the Tories Is BBC being used as a pawn over Boris Johnson row? Coronavirus latest news: NHS app will become your vaccine passport Subscribe to The Telegraph for a month-long free trial Boris Johnson will have the final say on whether he breached the ministerial code over the Downing Street flat, Number 10 has revealed. Former private secretary to the Queen Lord Geidt was appointed as the new independent adviser on ministers' interests this morning, charged with prioritising the so-called "cash for curtains" row. But the Prime Minister's official spokesman said Mr Johnson has concerns that an independent adviser with powers to launch probes could be drawn into an investigation with "
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Boris Johnson has repeatedly dodged questions about who initially paid for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat.
Speaking during PMQs on Wednesday, Labour leader Keir Starmer asked “who paid the initial invoice” for the renovations, which reportedly cost £200,000.
But the prime minister would only say he had “covered the cost”, with no reference to who paid the bills up front.
Downing Street has refused to say whether Johnson received an initial loan from the Conservative Party to cover the renovations to the flat.
Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former top adviser, has accused the PM of wanting donors to “secretly pay” in a “possibly illegal” move.
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50 MPs question Boris over Pakistan travel ban
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April 9, 2021
LONDON: Around 50 British Parliamentarians have asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson to urgently answer with full data and evidence to why Pakistan and Bangladesh have been added to the “red list” countries starting from 9th of April (today).
The letter has been written by Yasmin Qureshi MP, Chair of the All Parties Parliamentary Group on Pakistan (APPG), and signed by parliamentarians from Labour and Conservatives. The letter, passed to this reporter by Yasmin Qureshi MP, questions the UK government’s decision to place Pakistan and Bangladesh on the travel “red list” with the ban coming into force at very short notice at 4am on April 9, 2021.
50 UK MPs question Boris over Pakistan ‘Red List’ travel ban
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April 8, 2021
LONDON: Around 50 British Parliamentarians have asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson to urgently answer with full data and evidence to why Pakistan and Bangladesh have been added to the “Red List” countries starting from 9th of April 2021. The letter has been written by Yasmin Qureshi MP, Chair of the All Parties Parliamentary Group on Pakistan (APPG), and signed by parliamentarians from Labour and Conservatives. This is the biggest intervention yet made by the MPs after Pakistan and Bangladesh were added in the list of risky countries and comes soon after British Pakistani lawyer Barrister Rashid Ahmed announced that he will be initiating a proper legal challenge to the UK government for singling out Pakistan.