It seems he didn’t know why she had been picked. But this indicates there will be a paper trail in the FCO. It should be published. It is manifestly corrupt to appoint your lover as a SPAD

diary of former Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan, April 2018:

'apparently Carrie Symonds, head of press in Conservative HQ, is due to become a SPAD in the FCO....'

Because our Welsh Labour Government reached a deal with rail workers, unions, and operators, Transport for Wales staff aren’t striking today.

But our rail network is still in a state of chaos, because Boris Johnson and Grant Shapps refuse to come to the table and do the same.

FAO: Daily Mail U.K.

This is what our construction workers at Hinkley Point think about your 'woke' builders story 🙄

Victoria was diagnosed with stage 4 secondary melanoma in 2019, after being diagnosed with primary ocular (uveal) melanoma in 2008. She has undergone surgery & received a new treatment called tebentafusp.

Victoria kindly shared her experience with us: buff.ly/3zQAzcX

No 10’s contorted pay position:

1/ Public sector workers will not get an inflation level pay rise as it would be inflationary… but state pensions will rise by inflation

2/ Britain must become “high wage”, but neither public or private sector should give real term pay rises

I agree

No. She wasn’t his wife. He had another wife at the time. That’s their business. But he tried to circumvent open and fair recruitment processes at the FCO for his lover. This is corrupt. And you endorse it

The Torys held a fundraiser evening tonight, despite concerns raised about Russian money in the Conservatives Lubov Chernukhin attended. #UkraineRussiaWar

What the..?

EXC: Lord Geidt believes allegations that Boris Johnson tried to appoint his future wife to a plum government job 'could be ripe for investigation', Telegraph can reveal.

PM’s former ethics adviser thinks the incident could be a matter for his successor. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…

It really wouldn’t

No 10 admits it spoke to The Times before Carrie Johnson story was pulled news.sky.com/story/no-10-ad…

No 10 spoke to Times newspaper before Carrie Johnson story dropped

bbc.in/3zPqv3D

This passport saga gets worse and worse. The government is incompetent and ministers complacent.

Downing St intervened to have the story about Carrie Johnson job offer pulled from later editions of The Times, it has been confirmed.

Can you imagine the avalanche of questions the UK tabloids would drop on a Labour PM who had an operation on his nose whilst serving?

It's almost 6 years since the Brexit vote. Here is how UK and the Euro 19 area GDP per capita have evolved (2016Q3=1, PPP adjusted, fixed prices, OECD data). Using Euro 19 as the counterfactual, each UK inhabitant has paid around £4,520 (2015 prices) for the vote so far.