The Independent says DOWNING STREET has confirmed that members of Boris Johnson’s team intervened following the publication of a story about his wife Carrie in The Times.
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The Guardian says The Times swiftly withdrew a story that made allegations about the prime minister and his wife after Downing Street intervened to complain about it, No 10 has confirmed.
BBC News says BORIS JOHNSON is to call for a “sensible compromise” on pay to end the largest rail strike in 30 years.
Sky News says DOWNING STREET has confirmed it was in conversation with The Times around the time the newspaper dropped a report claiming Boris Johnson tried to appoint his now wife to a government role when he was foreign secretary.
The Guardian says Boris Johnson is engaging in “Putinesque” tactics by using the Northern Ireland protocol bill to cause a populist row with Brussels when the EU is willing to compromise, Peter Hain, a former Northern Ireland secretary, said on Sunday.
Daily Express says TORY plotters are revelling after Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser resigned last night, with renewed pressure heaped on the Prime Minister’s position.
The Guardian says Priti Patel has been accused by Labour of participating in a “government by gimmick” in the aftermath of the 11th-hour cancellation on Tuesday of the inaugural flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Sky News says Lord Geidt has resigned as the prime minister’s adviser on ministerial interests. “With regret, I feel that it is right that I am resigning from my post as Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests,” the statement reads.
BBC News says the first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled minutes before take-off after legal rulings on Tuesday evening.
The Guardian says Liz Truss says Rwanda flights policy is ‘completely moral’ amid backlash and criticism from royals and Church officials.
BBC News says three more people due to be on the first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda are planning legal challenges before take-off later on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will later publish plans to scrap parts of the post-Brexit deal he struck with the EU in 2020.
The Guardian says concerns are mounting that children wrongly assessed as adults by the Home Office could end up being offshored to Rwanda.
The Sun says PRINCE Charles and Boris Johnson are likely to meet in Rwanda after the migrants row.
The controversial Rwanda plan is set to see the first group of migrants be flown to Rwanda under a new scheme from the British government.
The Metro says Boris Johnson will set out plans for lower-paid workers to be able to use their housing benefits to buy their homes and an extension of the right to buy for housing association tenants.
Sky News says Boris Johnson will announce new measures to help people to get on to the property ladder during a speech in which he pledges to hard-pressed UK households that “things will get better”.
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The Telegraph says there may not be a clear alternative leader within the party now, but that doesn’t mean one will never emerge.
The Independent says It is axiomatic that any political leader who faces a vote of confidence is doomed, sooner or later.
Daily Express says BORIS JOHNSON clings onto power, seeing off a plot by rebel Tories to oust him from No10 in what he declared a “convincing result”.
PM Boris Johnson is to face the Commons today following a hectic week in which he scrapped through a no confidence vote.
Sky News says Boris Johnson has sought to draw a line under a bruising confidence vote by urging Cabinet ministers to focus on tax cutting and levelling up.