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Euro 2024 qualifiers: England vs Malta – where to watch, odds and team news
June 16, 2023
Euro 2024 qualifiers: England vs Malta – where to watch, odds and team news Ahead of the Women’s World Cup in July, the men are back in action with their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign. On Friday they face Malta away from home. Gareth Southgate’s side have made a great start to the campaign by beating both their most likely rivals from a top-two finish, Ukraine and Italy, while Malta have lost to the latter as
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- Twenty fines will be issued as part of the police inquiry into Downing Street parties that broke Covid rules.
- Met police will not be saying who is fined or which events the fixed penalty notices relate to.
- Downing Street has said before that it would confirm if the prime minister was facing a fine.
- Fixed penalty notices are a sanction for breaking the law, and mean a fine, which needs to be paid within 28 days, or contested.
- The fines mean the PM misled the House of Commons in December – not known if he did it intentionally or not.
Boris 'proven' liar
The Guardian says the Shadow Minister said the fines prove PM is a liar - and the paper agrees with the minister.
No 10 'refuses' to say if PM will quit
The Independent claims No 10 is refusing to say if Boris will quit if he is fined - No 10 have confirmed they will make it punlic knowlegde if the PM is fined.
PM doesn't know if he'll be amongst first fined
The Times headline is rather misleading - as it implies the PM will be amongst those fined eventually even if he's not in the first 20 people to be fined.
PM 'not among' those fined
The Sun claims the PM isn't among those being fined today - the paper says Downing Street today confirmed the PM has not been given a fixed penalty notice.
