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Boris Johnson in new Afghan pets rescue storm

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Boris Johnson denies he personally intervened in the evacuation of 173 pets from Afghanistan (Image: Alessandro Rota/Getty and Getty)

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The Prime Minister faced new questions as Foreign Office emails suggested he had “authorised” Nowzad’s staff and animals to be evacuated after the Taliban takeover. Those involved in the exodus said the campaign by Nowzad founder and ex-Royal Marine Pen Farthing had frustrated attempts to saveAfghan people.

In December a Johnson aide was said to have written to Mr Farthing confirming his staff and animals could be airlifted.

Mr Johnson called the claim “complete nonsense”, but emails released by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, probing the Government’s handling of the Afghan crisis, have suggested Mr Johnson did approve the efforts.

In one, an official for Foreign Office minister Lord Goldsmith said Nowzad “has received a lot of publicity and the PM has just authorised their staff and animals to be evacuated.”

Pen Farthing

Nowzad’s Pen Farthing (Image: Alessandro Rota/Getty)

Another said a separate animal charity wanted Afghan staff flown out “in light of the PM’s decision earlier today to evacuate the staff of the Nowzad animal charity”.

Labour said the development is fresh evidence Mr Johnson had failed to come clean over how Nowzad left Afghanistan.

Yesterday Lord Goldsmith said: “I did not authorise and do not support anything that would have put animals’ lives ahead of people’s.”

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No 10 said: “At no point did the Prime Minister instruct staff to take any particular course of action on Nowzad.”

And Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Tuesday: “No one lobbied me. At no stage did the Prime Minister ask me to make a way for those pets.”

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$1 billion to be pumped into saving Great Barrier Reef environment and jobs

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The federal government is set to make its largest-ever investment in saving the Great Barrier Reef, announcing an additional $1 billion towards improving water quality, reef management and research.

Key points:

  • More than $3 billion has been committed to protecting the Great Barrier Reef
  • New money will fund water-quality improvements and scientific research
  • The United Nations is due to report on the health of the reef next month

The government hopes the funding will help protect more than 64,000 jobs and $6.4 billion in tourism dollars attached to the reef economy.

More than half of the funding will go towards improving water quality through remediating erosion, improving land condition and reducing nutrient and pesticide run-off.

Environment Minister Sussan Ley said the $1 billion package would be managed by her department and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and would be delivered through local communities and industries, including traditional owners.

“Our farmers, tourism operators and fishers are our reef champions and we are supporting them through practical water and land-based strategies that will contribute significantly to the health of the reef,” Ms Ley said.

Reef still faces ‘in danger’ listing

The federal government has faced calls to increase its efforts to preserve the Great Barrier Reef, since UNESCO warned last year it intended to list the reef as “in danger”.

The government successfully staved off an immediate listing , but the reef still faces the prospect of being listed as ‘in danger’.

The World Heritage Committee has asked UNESCO to undertake a monitoring mission but Sussan Ley said they have not yet visited Australia.

“I’ve written to UNESCO, I’ve invited the reactive monitoring mission to come and look forward to further correspondence indicating that they will visit,” she told the ABC.

“I look forward to the reactive monitoring mission coming to Australia and seeing for themselves how our reef communities are working hard are practising the strongest possible reef management.”

The federal government was also required to submit a report to UNESCO by next month that outlines how it is protecting the reef and Ms Ley said the report is on track to be sent soon.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s chair has previously warned the health of the reef will continue to deteriorate without climate action.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Great Barrier Reef was “the best-managed reef in the world”, and the new funding was on top of $2 billion already invested in its sustainability plan.

“We are backing the health of the reef and the economic future of tourism operators, hospitality providers and Queensland communities that are at the heart of the reef economy,” Mr Morrison said.

The government said it would direct scientific research funding to projects such as coral seeding, reef stabilisation, the development of heat-resistant coral and climate adaptation work with turtles and other marine species.

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If colleague honoured, greet him with appreciation: Karan Singh on Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Padma award

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Several members of the group of 23 leaders who had written to Sonia Gandhi demanding an organisational overhaul in the Congress congratulated Azad for being awarded Padma Bhushan, saying it was “well-deserved”.

Amid internal rumblings within the Congress over Ghulam Nabi Azad being awarded Padma Bhushan , senior Congress leader Karan Singh on Thursday said national awards should not become subject of intra-party controversy and if “one of our colleagues” is honoured, he should be greeted with warm appreciation rather than “snide remarks”. Singh’s comments come amid a controversy triggered soon after the announcement of the Padma awards on Tuesday evening when Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, while commenting on CPI (M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharya’s refusal to accept the award, said, “He wants to be Azad not Ghulam”.

Several members of the group of 23 leaders who had written to Sonia Gandhi demanding an organisational overhaul in the Congress congratulated Azad for being awarded Padma Bhushan, saying it was “well-deserved”.

Reacting to the row, Singh said he was distressed at the “unseemly controversy” over the well deserved Padma Award to Azad.

“These National Awards should not become subject of inter-party controversy, far less of intra-party ones,” Singh, a former Union minister and party stalwart, said in a statement.

“I have known Ghulam Nabi for half a century since he first started his political career as an active participant in my second election campaign for the Lok Sabha in 1971 from the Udhampur constituency, to which he belongs,” he said.

Since then, Singh said, he has seen Azad rise through sheer dint of hard work, dedication and administrative ability to becoming a Cabinet Minister, both with P V Narasimha Rao and Dr Manmohan Singh.

As Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha for seven years, he played a positive and constructive role in our Parilamentary system, Singh said.

Azad also served as the first Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from the Jammu region, and his short stint is still remembered positively in both regions, he said.

“If one of our colleagues is honoured he should be greeted with warm appreciation rather than snide remarks,” Singh said.

Congress veteran and former law minister Ashwani Kumar has also come out in support of Azad and hit out at Ramesh, saying his criticism of Azad is nothing less than a “shameful innuendo” and does not do justice to the ethos of the Congress party.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, who is also in the G23, has said that it was ironic that the Congress does not need Azad’s services when the nation recognises his contributions to public life.

“Ghulam Nabi Azad conferred Padam Bhushan. Congratulations bhaijan. Ironic that the Congress doesn’t need his services when the nation recognises his contributions to public life,” Sibal said on Twitter on Wednesday.

Other members of the G-23 Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor and Raj Babbar congratulated Azad for the Padma award, saying it was “well-deserved”.

Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi also criticised Ramesh, saying it shows one’s shallowness.

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Mark Zuckerberg set for Republican grilling after Facebook suppresses voter fraud claims en masse

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Mark Zuckerberg faces a tense grilling in Washington DC next week over Facebook’s handling of election misinformation and its sanctions against Donald Trump during and after the 2020 US election.

The 36-year-old chief executive will testify alongside Twitter boss Jack Dorsey on Tuesday in a virtual Senate hearing on “censorship, suppression and the 2020 election”, chaired by one of President Trump’s biggest allies.

Lindsey Graham, who leads the Senate’s judiciary committee, scheduled the meeting after Twitter and Facebook imposed warning labels on posts by Mr Trump and other Republicans that falsely claimed he had won the election.

The two chief executives had originally been summoned in order to explain why they squelched a negative New York Post story about Joe Biden and his son last month, sparking widespread accusations of anti-conservative censorship .

It comes after a fateful seven days for both companies, in which the President’s all-in bet on largely unsubstantiated allegations of mass vote ­rigging pressed them to effectively ­designate his main campaign message as dangerous misinformation.

As broadcasters such as Fox News turned their back on Mr Trump, cutting away from footage in which his campaign continued to claim victory , Facebook deleted groups and pages representing hundreds of thousands of his supporters, while Twitter repeatedly blocked users from sharing his tweets.

Thomas Kadri, a law professor at the University of Georgia who studies how social networks enforce their rules, said that this year had been a “game changer” in finally forcing tech giants to accept their role as what Mr Zuckerberg has called “arbiters of truth”.

Mr Kadri said: “It’s become a lot harder for the platforms to say, with a straight face, ‘we just can’t do this’. Mainly through the pandemic, but also now the election, they have undercut their own ability to make those kinds of arguments.

“We’ve moved into a realm where the platforms are engaging in all sorts of highly editorial decisions… the more they’re dealing with the high-profile political questions surrounding these warnings, the more they start to seem like traditional broadcast and journalism media.”

That is significant because American social networks benefit from not being classified as publishers under “section 230, an ageing internet regulation that is now under sustained attack from both parties .

On top of the anger of Mr Trump’s allies, Mr Zuckerberg and Mr Dorsey may face arguments from Democrats that they did not do enough to limit viral rumours, many amplified by the President himself, that drew armed protesters to counting centres across the country.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube remain locked in a virtual battle of whack-a-mole as new conspiracy theories pop up, often in the form of video live streams, which are harder to track and police than text posts. Some originated with the QAnon movement, which has been plunged into confusion by the ongoing silence of its prophet “Q” .

Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former chief security officer and now director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, called last week “the most intense online disinformation event in US history – and the pace of what we have found has only accelerated.”

Mr Biden’s campaign criticised Facebook for failing to act earlier against pro-Trump media outlets that have helped spread false stories accusing it of turning a blind eye to past misbehaviour for fear of offending Republicans.

Mr Zuckerberg will also be questioned about Stop The Steal, a pro-Trump group devoted to misinformation about election fraud that swelled to more than 300,000 members within 24 hours before being shut down because its members had begun encouraging violence.

Some fear that the hearing may itself become a vehicle for election fraud claims in the hands of seasoned social media critics such as Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. Mr Hawley has tacitly boosted Mr Trump’s narrative, as has Mr Graham.

A similar hearing aired days before the election was described by Democrat senator Brian Schatz as a “sham” after it descended into a verbal boxing match . Some Republicans seized on claims of liberal bias to undermine the protections intended to stop Mr Trump from calling the election early, as he eventually did.

Mr Cruz, who has long accused Big Tech unfairly censoring conservative voices, himself received a warning label on November 8 for a video in which he claimed that “there would be recounts” and that “President Trump still has a path to victory”, suggesting that postal votes are more likely to be tossed out.

According to Mr Kadri, however, the hearing is unlikely to produce any legal danger for tech giants. Mr Biden would struggle to pass any reforms to section 230 without control of Congress, and the two parties disagree profoundly as to whether social networks censor too much or too little.

Even then, he said, Facebook and Twitter’s warning labels, which range from pointing users towards authoritative information to stating that a given piece of content is disputed or not true, would probably be protected under the US’s First Amendment, which guarantees free speech to people and  corporations alike.

Boris Johnson LIVE: Guto Harri just told Kuennsberg something very interesting about PM

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Guto Harri, who worked with Mr Johnson before he took over the running of the country, said the leader has always “underestimated how critical it is to have a fantastic team around him”. He added: “I don’t think, even if he can pull this back, he will be allowed to do it unless he promises to his party that he is going to overhaul that machinery so the kind of nonsense that has happened, and the bad stuff that has happened will never happen again.”

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Labour to force vote on seeing FULL Gray report if details held back

Labour is threatening to force a vote on seeing the full Sue Gray report into Downing Street parties if details are held back by the Government.

The Sue Gray report, which is investigating whether a string of parties held in Downing Street during lockdown broke any rules, is widely expected to be submitted on Monday.

But Lisa Nandy, the shadow levelling up secretary, said the public is getting “deeply frustrated” by the delays and the Government’s refusal to say they will publish it in full.

Ms Nandy said: “If the Prime Minister won’t publish it in full, we will take every step that we can to make sure that information is in the public domain.”

Labour plans to use a “humble address” motion to expose the full report if the Government does not offer it up willingly.

Humble address motions are binding and if it were to pass the document would have to be published.

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Tories could be leading again in a couple of months, predicts politics enthusiast

Commenting on the latest Kantar Public poll, Kevin Edger suggests the Tories could be back in the lead in a few months’ time.

He said: “Shows the Conservatives have recovered the losses from earlier in the month.

“Not a bad poll considering everything. I see no reason why the Tories can’t be leading again in a couple of months, especially as they’ve got all the major decisions spot on.”

Shows the Conservatives have recovered the losses from earlier in the month. Not a bad poll considering everything. I see no reason why the Tories can\u2019t be leading again in a couple of months, especially as they\u2019ve got all the major decisions spot on.

\u2014 Kevin Edger (@KEdge23) January 27, 2022

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Voting intention holds steady, poll finds

The voting intention has held steady, according to the latest Kantar Public poll.

It shows Labour in the lead on 38 percent, with the Conservatives close behind on 34 percent.

LAB: 38 percent (-)

CON: 34 percent (-)

LDEM: 11 percent (-)

GRN: 7 percent (-)

Westminster voting intention: @KantarPublic , 20 – 24 Jan

\u2014 Britain Elects (@BritainElects) January 27, 2022

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‘Total rhubarb,’ PM denies he approved animal airlift from Afghanistan

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dismissed claims he approved the controversial airlift of animals from Afghanistan as “total rhubarb”.

His denial comes a day after a Foreign Office whistleblower released emails suggesting that Mr Johnson personally approved the rescue mission.

The mission gained notoriety after it was said to have frustrated efforts to save Afghans.

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Tory leads in key polling areas collapse – PM risks election bloodbath

Conservative leads in key polling areas have collapsed risking an election bloodbath, with Labour gaining ground on the economy, jobs and living standards.

Conservative leads on key areas of economic competence have been massively eroded, and in some cases overturned completely, according to the latest YouGov polling.

The Labour party is closing the gap on who the public believes would better handle the economy, as the Conservatives hold on by only six points – a drop of 18 points from May 2021.

Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer’s party has overtaken the Tories on key issues such as jobs (five-point lead, up 14 points), living standards (nine-point lead, up 15 points, and prices (nine-point lead, up 20 points).

With Labour often struggling to compete with the Conservatives on perceived economic competency, this narrowing is highly significant for Labour’s ambitions to win the next election.

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MP who defected to Labour will not support Jeremy Corbyn

Christain Wakeford, the MP who defected from the Conservatives to Labour less than an hour before Boris Johnson battled PMQs, has said he will not support restoring the whip to Jeremy Corbyn.

He says he was asked in a local Labour party meeting what his stance was.

He answered that he would not support the former leader of the Labour party because he refuses to take responsibility and apologise for allowing antisemitism to fester under his leadership.

campaign for Jeremy Corbyn to have the whip restored. The answer is that I would not. Mr. Corbyn has been told what he needs to do in order for the whip to be restored, and has repeatedly refused to apologise and own up for his failed leadership which allowed antisemitism

\u2014 Christian Wakeford MP (@Christian4BuryS) January 27, 2022

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‘All Labour care about is cake and animals,’ slams Rees-Mogg

All the Labour party care about is cake and animals, according to Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Speaking in Parliament, Labour Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds highlighted emails that appeared to suggest Boris Johnson “did intervene and overruled the defence secretary” to get animals out of Afghanistan.

Addressing Mr Rees-Mogg, she said: “Can the Leader of the House explain what happened?

“This government puts its own self-interest above the national interest, they’ve completely lost any grip and working people are paying the price.”

The Leader of the House replied: “The Ministry of Defence got 15,000 people out of Afghanistan in an extraordinary operation, an amazingly successful operation and again the Opposition is dealing with the fripperies and with the trivia, not with the really big picture.

“All they care about is cake and animals, whereas we are getting on with the important business of government.”

‘All Labour care about is cake and animals,’ slams Rees-Mogg (Image: GETTY)

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Is the country starting to believe Labour could govern?

Labour has made huge gains in the polls as Boris Johnson risks leading the Conservatives to a bloodbath in the next election.

Over the course of the past year, the Conservative’s lead on the economy has been severely eroded and Labour has overtaken them in areas such as managing inflation and jobs.

Tory leads on key areas of economic competence have been massively eroded, and in some cases overturned completely https://t.co/l1AFk4pfj5 pic.twitter.com/hXGnARrMis

\u2014 YouGov (@YouGov) January 27, 2022

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PM holds crisis meetings with rebel MPs as he enters ‘kill-zone’

Boris Johnson is holding crisis meetings with rebel MPs in a bid to fend off the looming leadership challenge after being thrust into the “kill-zone” by a string of scandals.

The Prime Minister has privately pleaded with at least 30 potential rebels while allies have set up a 100-strong “save Boris” WhatsApp group, the Telegraph reports.

He met with the potential rebels in his parliamentary office, where he privately asked MPs to explain their concerns in the hope he could convince them to keep supporting him.

Mr Johnson has refused to resign over the latest allegations of parties in Downing Street during lockdown, which are being investigated by both civil servant Sue Gray, and the Metropolitan Police.

Commenting on the Prime Minister’s shift into survival mode, Sky News political editor Beth Rigby noted: “Now in the kill zone, he’s fighting – hard.”

PM holds crisis meetings with rebel MPs as he enters ‘kill-zone’ (Image: GETTY)

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Boris warned of ‘1997-style annihilation’

Boris Johnson has been warned he is leading his party to a ‘1997-style’ annihilation.

Allister Heath, Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, said a “1997-style annihilation” could well be on the cards for the Tories thanks to an “epidemic” of broken promises and carelessness.

The Conservative Party led by John Major, received an electoral drubbing before the turn of the decade, suffering a net loss of 178 parliamentary seats and handing Labour, led by Tony Blair, its largest ever majority.

Following this, Labour held the keys for Number 10 for more than a decade.

Tony Blair, the British Labour Party leader, campaigning during the 1997 General Election (Image: GETTY)

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‘It is Brexit’s fault,’ actor blames string of scandals on UK leaving the bloc

Actor and writer David Schneider has pinned the current political situation on Brexit.

‘The Death of Stalin’ writer took to Twitter to express his frustration, writing: “Brexit is the original sin of this government, the foundational lie.

“Everything – all the corruption, all the lies, all the rule-breaking and law-breaking, the bullying and blackmail – follows inevitably from that. Boris Johnson out.”

Brexit is the original sin of this government, the foundational lie. #BorisJohnsonOut

\u2014 David Schneider (@davidschneider) January 25, 2022

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Tory support no longer conditional on whether the PM broke rules or lied

Political commentator John Crace has noted a shift from within the Tory party.

“Curious that for many Tory MPs their support for the PM no longer seems to be conditional on whether he went to parties and lied about it,” he said.

His comment comes after Tory MP Andrew Rosindell defended the Prime Minister’s rule-breaking by saying: “He has not robbed a bank.”

Curious that for many Tory MPs their support for the PM no longer seems to be conditional on whether he went to parties and lied about it

\u2014 John Crace (@JohnJCrace) January 27, 2022

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Therese Coffey said Government has committed to publishing Gray findings

Therese Coffey, secretary of state for work and pensions, told Sky News she does not know when the Sue Gray report will be released but stressed the Government has committed to publishing it.

“You will probably know quicker than I will do, Kay [Burley],” she says.

“It’s important that be allowed to continue, as the PM said about the police investigation.

“[The Government has] committed to publishing the full findings of the report.”

Therese Coffey tells #KayBurley the gov. has not received Sue Gray’s report, adding “you’ll probably know quicker than I do.” https://t.co/qgKvKTxaJ5 pic.twitter.com/hVIQ6Jnh75

\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) January 27, 2022

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‘You did not elect me for ethics’ former Downing Street worker analyses Johnson’s moves

Boris Johnson will not leave his post no matter how bad it gets, according to Nick Hargrave, a former Downing Street employee.

Mr Hargrave said: “Imminent days are not about electability. Purely the raw exercise of staying in power and living to fight.

“Top-flight politicians are optimists and believe something will turn up.

“Often said that Tory MPs are the most sophisticated electorate in the world. If only it were so.

“In reality, most are risk averse, career minded and swayed by the psychology of the crowd. Btw same true of Labour – look how long Corbyn lasted.

“For all his failings, the Prime Minister knows this and has a keener sense of human frailty then many. Look at his last 2 X pmqs outings.

“They are all about the projection of strength and not giving a toss, mixed with a Johnsonian dollop of humour to diffuse the earnest.

“His subtext is clear. I’m not going anywhere no matter how bad it gets. You didn’t elect me for ethics. So to get me out you’re going to have to take me out.”

His subtext is clear. I’m not going anywhere no matter how bad it gets. You didn’t elect me for ethics. So to get me out you’re going to have to take me out. 5

\u2014 Nick Hargrave (@NIHargrave) January 26, 2022

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‘Jacob is talking nonsense,’ former Tory deputy PM

A former Tory deputy PM has accused Jacob Rees-Mogg of “talking nonsense” after suggesting there may need to be a general election if Boris Johnson is forced out.

The remarks were seen at the time as a veiled warning to Tory MPs with smaller majorities.

Damian Green told ITV: “Jacob, bless him, is talking nonsense.

“We have a system of parliamentary democracy – he’s leader of the House of Commons, he must have noticed that.

“Probably the two most presidential prime ministers we’ve had in my lifetime have been Thatcher and Blair.

“Both of them left in the middle of a parliament and both of their successors went on for the whole term of that parliament.”

\u201cJacob, bless him, is talking nonsense\u201d @DamianGreen slaps down Jacob Rees-Mogg\u2019s claim that a general election would have to take place if Boris Johnson left office. #Peston pic.twitter.com/DRa7Iu0vLt

\u2014 Peston (@itvpeston) January 26, 2022

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‘PM wants you to get tired of being outraged,’ says Liberal Democrat MP

Tim Farron, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, has accused the Prime Minister of playing for time over the partygate allegations.

Mr Farron said: “The PM’s strategy is to keep flanneling until you get tired of being outraged at his dishonesty, hypocrisy and mockery of you and your family.

“It might work, who knows? Listen to Richard to remind yourself why it absolutely mustn’t…”

He attaches a Sky News interview with Richard Macvicar, who lost his mother, father and sister to Covid in the space of three weeks in 2020.

The PM\u2019s strategy is to keep flanneling until you get tired of being outraged at his dishonesty, hypocrisy and mockery of you and your family. It might work, who knows? Listen to Richard to remind yourself why it absolutely mustn\u2019t\u2026 https://t.co/iuyaHCrjTv

\u2014 Tim Farron (@timfarron) January 27, 2022

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‘Save Boris’ whatsapp group holding 100 MPs

Allies of the Prime Minister have set up a “save Boris” whatsapp group which contains almost 100 MPs.

A number of Mr Johnson loyalists have begun a “shadow whipping” operation to keep potential rebels in line.

The “shadow” whipping team is led by Chris Pincher, a levelling up minister, and Conor Burns, a Northern Ireland minister.

It is understood they set up the “save Boris” whatsapp group, which has 98 members, as a support group for wavering MPs.

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