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Tories becoming an English nationalist party, says DUP MP

DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr said he felt the days were ‘long gone’ since he had trusted a politician.

The Independent UK

UK lawmaker comes out as first transgender member of parliament

A lawmaker in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party said on Wednesday he planned to change his gender identity to become Britain's first openly transgender member of parliament, a decision he said followed a series of harrowing episodes in his personal life.

Reuters

Tory politician Jamie Wallis becomes first openly transgender MP

The MP wrote of hiding their identity, a £50,000 blackmail threat, and their reasons for fleeing the scene of a car crash

Bristol Post

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Jury sworn in to try Tory MP accused of groping teenage boy

MP for Wakefield Imran Ahmad Khan denies a single charge of sexual assault.

The Independent UK

UK Police Fine 20 People over ‘Partygate’ Political Scandal

British police said Tuesday that they were fining 20 people over parties held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff during coronavirus lockdowns, and that more people could face penalties. The Metropolitan Police force said it wouldn't identify recipients of the fixed penalty notices, though Johnson's office has said…

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Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan due to stand trial accused of groping 15-year-old boy

The politician, who has been suspended by the Conservative Party, will stand trial at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

War shakes Europe path to energy independence, climate goals

Europe’s most pressing energy policy goal was reducing carbon emissions that cause climate change before Russia’s war in Ukraine

The Independent UK

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Calls to censure former Soviet bloc oil tycoon Alexander Temerko who has bankrolled Welsh secretaries

Two consecutive Welsh secretaries have had donations from Ukranian-born Alexander Temerko who moved to Russia at 17 and ran Russian oil and arms companies

Wales Online

I have a bream: Johnson offers fishy take on famous speech at party conference

The Prime Minister was delivering his address at the Conservative Party event in Blackpool when he related the story of a bream fisherman he had met.

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine motivated by fear, Boris Johnson claims

The Russian president was in a ‘total panic’ about prospect of pro-democracy uprising, the prime minister told a Conservative party conference

Manchester Evening News

PM vows to do ‘everything’ possible to offer support for cost of living crisis

Boris Johnson told the Conservative Party spring conference the long-term solution was to invest in green energy.

The Independent UK

Jacob Rees-Mogg says Ukraine war shows Partygate scandal was just ‘fluff’ – as it happened

Brexit minister says people will find Partygate scandal ‘fundamentally trivial’ in the context of war in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Dowden: Tories will fight election with candidates from ‘all walks of life’

Tory chairman Oliver Dowden will say the “new Conservative Party” will represent “mill towns and mining towns as well as the metropolis”.

The Independent UK

David Cameron defends tennis game with Russian donor as they 'didn't talk about Putin'

Ex-banker Lubov Chernukhin, a major donor to the Conservative Party, whose husband is President Putin’s former deputy finance minister, paid £160,000 for a match with David Cameron and Boris Johnson - in 2014

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Billionaire hands £250k to Tories despite living in Bahamas for 'more than a decade'

Theatre entrepreneur John Gore handed enough to the Tories to qualify for Boris Johnson's 'secret advisory board' in a single cash donation in December last year

The Independent UK

Labour calls for Tories to sack co-chair over Russia links

Keir Starmer said if Ben Elliot did not step back, he should be forced out.

Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer demands Tories sack co-chairman whose firm boasted of links to 'Russian elite'

Labour's leader hit out after a firm run by Ben Elliot, the co-chairman of the Conservative Party, said it provided 'luxury lifestyle management services to Russia's elite'

The Independent UK

Give Russian-linked donations to Ukrainian charities, Labour MP tells PM

Lubov Chernukhin, whose husband was Russia’s deputy finance minister, donated £80,250 to the Conservatives at the end of 2021, new data shows.

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The Independent UK

Wrong to tar all Russian-linked Tory donors with the same brush, Government says

A Foreign Office minister said many British citizens of Russian origin oppose Putin.

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson is 'comfortable' with £2m of Russian-linked donations and won't review them

Labour Leader Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of presiding over an "era of oligarch impunity"

Reuters

UK PM Johnson denies his party receives donations from Russian oligarchs

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied on Wednesday that his Conservative Party took donations from Russian oligarchs, saying all those who fund the governing party were registered in Britain.

Daily Mirror

Ukraine crisis: Keir Starmer accuses Tories of presiding over 'era of oligarch impunity'

Labour leader Keir Starmer urged Boris Johnson to impose further sanctions on Russia at PMQs - as top Tories warned of the imminent threat of invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

Truss suggests Tory donors could be sanctioned if they have links to Putin

The Foreign Secretary is facing calls for the Conservatives to hand back donated cash with Russian connections reportedly worth nearly £2 million.

The Conversation

Replacing Erin O'Toole exposes the Conservative Party's ever-deepening divides

In voting to remove Erin O’Toole as leader, the Conservative Party of Canada’s caucus has raised the thorny question of how the different groups within contemporary conservatism can co-exist and collaborate.

The Conversation

Erin O'Toole's ouster shows the impact of leadership selection rules

Erin O'Toole is the second person to lead the Conservative Party of Canada since Stephen Harper stepped down in 2015. Why is it significant that the Conservative caucus ousted him?

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