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The Latest Breaking News from Boris Johnson

Breakfast briefing: Tories face more infighting, Education Secretary to vet return of masks in schools, Liz Truss issues warning to Vladimir Putin and more than three in five over-65s worried about heating

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Wales Online

Woman forced to speak to dying mum on Skype slams Boris Johnson

"I am speechless with anger, especially when people are having parties and I didn't have free access to my mum"

Bristol Post

Liz Truss says Boris Johnson is doing a ‘fantastic job’ but sidesteps leadership question

The foreign secretary, in Sydney for ministerial-level talks, says the embattled PM has her support and should stay in No 10 ‘as long as possible’

The Guardian - AU

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Only thing worse than Boris Johnson is the fear of who comes next

Columnist Darren McGarvey says be careful what you wish for.

Daily Record

Liz Truss backed campaign for Scottish Conservatives to split from UK party

EXCLUSIVE: Foreign secretary Liz Truss - who is expected to compete with Rishi Sunak if there is a vacancy for Tory leader - was previously supportive of plans for the party in Scotland to go its own way.

Daily Record

UK Foreign Secretary Truss says she fully supports PM Johnson

UK Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss voiced on Friday her full support for embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson, saying he was doing a fantastic job and there was no contest for the leadership.

Reuters

What the papers say – January 21

The nation’s front pages are again consumed by the potential coup against the PM by rebel MPs angry over ‘partygate’.

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Tories face more infighting as reports emerge of rebels’ secret recording

The PM continues to encounter claims critics are facing ‘intimidation’ as part of an effort to keep him in office.

The Independent UK

Partygate: Police commissioners say there ‘wasn’t capacity’ to investigate past Covid breaches

Retrospective investigations were ‘just not going to be an option,’ a PCC said

The Independent UK

Covid live: Ireland to lift almost all curbs from 6am on Saturday; France reports 400,851 new cases — as it happened

Ireland’s premier Micheál Martin says ‘we have weathered the Omicron storm’; France reports 400,851 daily cases and 233 Covid-linked hospital deaths

The Guardian - UK

Education Secretary to vet local plans to bring back masks in schools

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday that masks would be scrapped in school classrooms from Thursday.

The Independent UK

'Boris Johnson's dirty tricks are beyond the usual dark arts of politics'

Boris Johnson allegedly threatened to strip funding from the constituencies of MPs who have called him out over Partygate. He defended himself saying he had seen no evidence of such behaviour

Daily Mirror

Tory chiefs 'threatened to scrap new school' if MP backed Marcus Rashford campaign

Rebel Tory MPs were allegedly told they would have constituency funds for vital services blocked or damaging stories about them could be planted in the media. The PM said he had seen no evidence to support the claims

Daily Mirror

'Boris Johnson does not behave like a Prime Minister, but more like a mobster'

It is alleged Boris Johnson has taken to blackmailing MPs, with backbenchers who were reluctant to support him over Partygate being threatened with a loss of constituency funding

Daily Mirror

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The Guardian - UK

Tory whips accused of intimidating MPs who oppose Boris Johnson

PM optimistic he can overcome a confidence vote as whipping alleged to veer into blackmail

The Independent UK

MPs subjected to ‘blackmail’ as Boris Johnson fights for political life, claims senior Tory

Tory rebel claims smear stories placed in bid to silence critics

The Guardian - UK

Baby-faced assassin has Boris Johnson in his sights

Chubby cheeked William Wragg makes another attempt to bring Big Dog to heel by raising allegations of intimidation of Tory MPs by whips

France 24

Can the party last? Johnson defies calls for leadership challenge

Is he living on borrowed time, or does Boris Johnson's brand of populism make the British PM scandal-proof? It's certainly not great optics when a Tory MP crosses the aisle to join the Labour opposition benches during Prime Minister's Questions, but that seems to have at least stalled a backbench…

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Evening Standard

Boris Johnson says ‘no evidence’ Tory critics facing ‘blackmail’, after MP William Wragg’s claims

The Prime Minister rejects claims from senior Conservative MP of intimidating tactics being used to prevent vote of no confidence

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on dual mandates: double trouble in Northern Ireland

Editorial: Brandon Lewis’s piecemeal approach is all too typical of this government’s preference for political manipulation

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson’s removal would be a chance to reconsider Brexit, says Heseltine

Anti-Brexit peer asks if people will get ‘another chance to express their view’

The Independent UK

Checkmate for Johnson, says seasoned rebel ringleader Steve Baker

Mr Baker said the allegations of rule-breaking parties in Downing Street during coronavirus restrictions are ‘appalling’.

The Guardian - UK

From Brexit ultras to net zero sceptics: what the Tory factions want

A guide to the gripes and wishes, some overlapping, of various parts of the Conservative parliamentary party

Chronicle Live

North East mums re-live the pain and terror of giving birth alone in lockdown while Boris partied

The furore over a 'bring your own booze' event at Downing Street shows no sign of abating as we await the Sue Gray report

Daily Mirror

Three-quarters of Brits believe Boris Johnson is 'dishonest' and 'lacks integrity'

A poll for campaign group 38 Degrees reveals just how much the Partygate scandal has damaged the Prime Minister

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