May 30, 2022
After the damning Sue Gray report into partygate, Boris Johnson watered down the ministerial code to allow ministers to break the rules without resigning. He also blocked a bid from his ethics advisor to launch further investigations.
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May 23, 2022
61-year-old actor Sir Kenneth Branagh had to be aged to play the role of 57-year-old prime minister Boris Johnson for the Sky television drama 'This England'.
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May 16, 2022
Chancellor Rishi Sunak claimed he was prevented from raising benefits by the old computer system used by the Department for Work and Pensions; a malfunctioning Michael Gove adopted Scouse and other accents in a bizarre round of morning interviews; and Labour peer Lord Foulkes tried to introduce a bill in the House of Lords which would have allowed the UK Government to dictate how the Scottish Government spends its money.
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May 9, 2022
For the 2022 Scottish council election, the Tories used images of Ruth Davidson on campaign materials rather than leader Douglas Ross, along with the caption 'send Sturgeon a message'. The SNP were always going to win comfortably and in the wake of partygate, Labour relegated the Conservatives to third place, while the Liberal Democrats also took seats from them.
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May 2, 2022
Neil Parish MP was accused of watching porn in the House of Commons. That's all you need to know.
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April 25, 2022
As the parties hit the campaign trail for May's local council election, Labour and Conservative were polling closely together. One poll suggested Labour had the edge on 23% of the vote, against 18% for the Tories, and 44% for the SNP. In other words, even combined they wouldn't beat the SNP.
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April 18, 2022
As it was announced that both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were amongst those given £50 spot fines for partygate breaches of lockdown rules, the UK government, under the guiding hand of Home Secretary Priti Patel, launched a scheme to process asylum seekers by sending them off to Rwanda. Meanwhile the tories' Scottish branch manager Douglas Ross, who had called for Johnson's resignation then withdrew it, squirmed when asked if he would support him into the next general election.
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April 11, 2022
Serial loon George Galloway, whose Twitter profile contained a link to Russian state-funded TV show @RT_sputnik, was furious to find Twitter tagged his account with a "Russian state-affiliated media" badge and threatened to sue. See also: 'Dundee Fruitcake'.
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April 3, 2022
Andrew Neil fell for a rather lame April Fool on Twitter, trolling the French president with an image of three warships, two supposedly British and one French, with the French one significantly smaller. Also on April 1st, the energy price cap rose meaning average household gas and electricity bills were set to rise by 54%. Some reported prices trebling.
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March 27, 2022
Chancellor Rishi Sunak - a millionaire married to a billionaire - found himself presiding over the worst cost of living crisis in 70 years. Following his horribly received spring budget he staged a couple of ill-advised PR photo ops. He was photographed filling up a Kia at a Sainsbury's petrol pump (the car turned out to belong to a Sainsbury's employee), and in a grocery store he didn't appear to know how contactless payments work. Also when quizzed about the price of bread he said he has "a whole range of breads" in his house.
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