‘Outstanding candidate’ Debbie Hewitt nominated as first ever FA chairwoman
Debbie Hewitt MBE is set to become the Football Association’s first chairwoman after receiving a unanimous nomination from the FA Board.
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June 7, 2021 Biden to affirm US-UK special relationship at G7 meeting with Johnson
Joe Biden has issued a statement pledging to affirm his “special relationship” with Britain when he meets Boris Johnson at this week’s G7 summit in the UK and discuss matters including the impasse in Northern Ireland.
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June 4, 2021 Rishi Sunak targets tax agreement for digital firms at G7 finance summit
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is aiming to secure a “fair deal” on digital taxation as he welcome overseas ministers in London for the first in-person G7 finance meeting since the start of the pandemic.
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June 4, 2021 Minister renews holiday travel warning: ‘You wouldn’t drive through amber at traffic light’
Robert Jenrick has urged people not to travel to amber list countries unless for the most exceptional reasons, as he insisted: “You wouldn’t drive an amber light at the traffic light”.
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May 30, 2021 Cummings’s humility comes all too late for Brexit Britain
No, “Eyetest” Cummings is not my new best friend. However convincing his criticisms of the prime minister are, the tragedy is that the fallout between the two came much too late for the good of the country. It is not even good enough for Cummings to say that we Remainers are “reasonable people”.
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May 29, 2021 Boris Johnson unaware Tory donor paid part of flat refurbishment bill, report finds
Boris Johnson told an official inquiry that he was unaware who paid the bill for his Downing Street flat refurbishment.
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May 11, 2021 Starmer out! Labour leader on the brink as Rayner allies warn of leadership challenge
Following Labour’s horrendous local election campaign, allies of former Deputy Leader Angela Rayner have warned she has much more power than she did before. Now the shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, deputy prime minister and shadow secretary for the future of work, allies of Ms Rayner have revealed a leadership challenge could easily have been mounted against […]
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May 3, 2021 Scotland elections hit with Iranian ‘disinformation’ campaigns to break up UK – Report
The Henry Jackson Society think tank published a report that claimed Iranian backed-accounts are targeting Scottish voters online. Posing as sympathetic to pro-independence parties, the accounts encourage real users to share pro-separatist material, graphics, memes and cartoons with their contacts online.
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May 2, 2021 Boris Johnson under pressure as British voters back second independence referendum
Boris Johnson is facing intense pressure to allow a second Scottish independence referendum if the SNP win a majority at Holyrood on Thursday, after a new poll for The Independent showed British voters think he would be wrong to deny a fresh ballot.
