Patel outlines plan for Rwanda, Johnson visits India and France goes to the polls This week in politics
Deputy Labor leader Angela Raynor distracted an article in the Mail on Sunday this morning alleging that she used the “basic instinct trick” to distract Boris Johnson in the municipality.
The newspaper claims that Ms. Raynor was accused by her Tory colleagues of pulling the Prime Minister “out of step” into the hall by crossing her legs.
Ms Raynor said she believed the prime minister himself was behind the “desperate, perverse slander” that likened her body language to a prime minister with Sharon Stone’s iconic scene in the 1992 erotic thriller.
This comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to deflect a second fixed fine with notice for BYOB drinks, which take place in the Downing Street Garden on May 20, 2020 during the first blockade in England.
A Downing Street source told the PA news agency that Boris Johnson had not been fined for the collection.
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Partygate’s Boris Johnson fine is more serious than speeding fine, Tory chairman admits
The Conservative Party chairman acknowledged that Boris Johnson’s fine for attending an illegal party was more serious than a speeding fine – after a cabinet minister suggested the violations were similar.
Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland minister, was ridiculed for making the comparison, also mistakenly claiming that Tony Blair had received a parking ticket while he was number 10.
Asked if it was right to compare Covid’s violation of speeding rules, Mr Dowden said: “This is not a comparison I would make.
“I take these statements very seriously – and I don’t underestimate for a moment how angry and hurt people feel about it.”
More from our deputy political editor Rob Merrick:
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Angela Raynor claims she is using a “basic instinct trick” to distract the prime minister
Deputy Labor leader Angela Raynor intervened in an article in the Mail on Sunday this morning alleging that she used a “trick” of basic instinct to distract Boris Johnson.
The newspaper claims that Ms. Raynor was accused by her Tory colleagues of taking the Prime Minister “out of step” in the Municipality by crossing and crossing her legs.
Tweeting today, she said: “Women in politics face sexism and misogyny every day – and I’m no different. This morning is the latest dose of journalism courtesy of @MoS_Politics.
“I am accused of a ‘trick’ to ‘distract’ the helpless prime minister – as a woman, I have legs and wear clothes. I conspire to “remove” it. I will not repeat the rest – but you understand the picture. “
She later added: “I hope that this experience will not stop anyone like me, with experience like mine, from their desire to participate in public life. That would break my heart. “
Her topic is available to read in full here:
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Allegations that the Tories are accusing Angela Raynor of a “basic instinct” trick to distract the prime minister are “ridiculous,” the party’s chairman said.
Allegations that Conservative lawmakers have accused Angela Raynor of deliberately distracting Boris Johnson by crossing and crossing her legs in municipalities are “ridiculous,” the party chairman said.
Anger is growing because of an unusual newspaper story, according to which the Tories likened the tactics of the deputy leader of Labor to a fully clothed equivalent on the scandalous scene of Sharon Stone in the movie Basic Instinct.
This was widely condemned as outright sexism – while having a bad effect on Mr Johnson himself if he could not concentrate when he encountered a woman’s legs.
But Oliver Dowden dismissed the allegations in The Mail on Sunday, while cautiously denying that some conservatives may have made the allegation.
Our deputy political editor, Rob Merrick, reports:
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Dowden called on France and Germany to do more to support Ukraine
France and Germany could do more to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia, the Conservative chairman said.
Oliver Dowden told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday program: “I’d like to see more, but the prime minister is committed to just that.
“So, earlier this week, he held talks not only with President Biden, but also with President Macron and the leaders of other countries like Germany.
“We all want to do it, but it would be good to see more of France and Germany.
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Criticism of Rwanda’s plans is not xenophobic, the cabinet minister said
Cabinet Secretary Oliver Dowden said he did not believe criticism of the government’s plans for migrants in Rwanda could be classified as “xenophobic”, a label used by Interior Minister Priti Patel, who also described the disapproval of the plans as “offensive”.
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Dowden says there are “strong arguments” for the prime minister to remain in office
Cabinet Minister Oliver Dowden said he did not believe the prime minister had misled Parliament for Partygate.
Asked if he thought Boris Johnson should resign if he was found to have misled MPs into a series of anti-blocking parties, Mr Dowden told Sky News he did not believe “this scenario will arise. “
He continued to praise the prime minister’s progress in mediating a trade agreement during his visit to India this week, saying his efforts were “strong arguments for the prime minister to remain in office”.
Mr Dowden also said he did not think he was being put in front of the media to “protect the vulnerable”, but acknowledged the “legitimate pain” of society caused by Partygate.
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PM costs the magazine £ 4,000 in parking fines, says the former editor
Boris Johnson cost his magazine £ 4,000 in parking tickets while he was a car correspondent, according to his former editor.
Dylan Jones, who hired Mr. Johnson in the fashion and lifestyle magazine GQ in 1999, wrote in The Sunday Times:
“And when I say a lot, I mean a lot; in Boris’s own words, they began to pile up “like snow on the windshield.”
Mr Jones added: “I once learned that during the decade he worked for GQ, Boris cost us around £ 4,000 in parking tickets.
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“But then he also wrote more than a hundred incredibly fun car speakers, so I thought it was worth it.”
Mr Jones said the “interesting thing” was that Mr Johnson had never been fined for speeding.
“And I have a pretty good idea why,” Mr Jones added.
“When cars were delivered to his house in Islington, the car company always celebrated mileage, something that is standard practice. The run will also be celebrated when they come to pick them up again. And in more than one case – well, in many, many, many cases – the mileage was exactly the same. So I leave it to you to draw your own conclusions. “
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Boris Johnson’s approval rating is falling, according to the poll
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Rwanda’s plans seek to “empower” asylum seekers, Patel said
Plans for migrants in Rwanda are concerned about attempts to “empower” asylum seekers, Interior Minister Priti Patel said.
“It has always been a partnership based on resettlement, rebuilding life. Investing in people, “she told The Times.
“We enable people through the way we invest in them.”
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Earlier, she defended the government’s controversial agreement to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as “very unique” and “not as a trade deal”.
“This is not like a trade deal … We have united migration and economic development in a partnership for migration and economic development with Rwanda,” Ms. Patel told The Sunday Telegraph.
“It’s so different from Australia’s model, for example, in the way they’ve commissioned it, so to speak. It’s not like that, it’s a very, very unique model. “
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Starmer is dealing with Met over the silence in Partygate
Keir Starmer criticized the Sofia police for not revealing the number of fines from Partygatefines issued before the local elections.
This comes after the forces announced they would not provide an update on fixed-penalty notices before local elections next month.
The Labor leader said the Met “must continue to make decisions and make those decisions public as before”.
“And the prime minister must reveal if he receives more fines. Metropolitans should not have changed their practice, “the former director of the prosecutor’s office added in an interview with the Sunday Mirror.
“Criminal charges, elections or no elections are constantly being raised. It is in the public interest to know who has received fines, especially high-level government fines. “
According to reports, good news began to arrive in the inboxes of employees who attended the “bring your own bottle” of drinks in the garden № 10 on May 20, 2020 during the first blockade in England.
Emily Atkinson April 24, 2022 07:40
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