Boris Johnson latest news: Hague says PM ‘in real trouble’ as Tory revolt grows
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Andrea Leadsom has become the latest Tory MP to turn on Boris Johnson amid the fallout from Sue Gray’s damning report into Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street.
The former business secretary and ally of the prime minister said he resided over “unacceptable failings in leadership” adding it was now time for Conservative MPs to decide on the “right course of action” to restore trust in the government.
Her comments come as William Hague warned that Boris Johnson could face a no-confidence vote “next week.”
Speaking to Times Radio, the former Tory leader said that Sue Gray’s Partygate report has been a “slow-fuse explosion” for Boris Johnson.
“I think the Conservative Party will need to resolve this one way or another, obviously because to be an effective party they either need to rally behind the prime minister they’ve got, or they need to decide to force him out and I think they’re moving towards either next week or around the end of June.”
Government ‘to pause civil service fast-track graduate scheme’
Here’s more detail on Boris Johnson’s plans to shrink the civil service.
According to The Telegraph, the civil service fast stream graduate recruitment programme for “future leaders” is to be paused for at least a year, in a decision signed off at a Cabinet Office board meeting on 19 May.
A line of the meeting’s minutes was reportedly leaked to the paper, and says: “The chair confirmed that the Prime Minister had decided the fast stream would be paused for at least a year.”
The scheme will reportedly be paused in 2023, leaving current successful applicants unaffected.
Labour criticised the move as an “ill-thought-through and self-defeating decision”, while a former Cabinet minister said it is “very foolish”.
Andy Gregory31 May 2022 12:51
Boris Johnson writes to civil servants warning of cuts to ‘2016 levels’ – reports
Boris Johnson has written to all civil servants announcing cuts to civil servants to “2016 levels,” according to reports.
He says: “As many families and businesses now look at how to reduce their costs in a period of higher global inflation, it is right that we do the same.”
“I have asked my Ministerial team and Permanent Secretaries to develop proposals to return the civil service to the size it was in 2016. I know that this will cause concern and uncertainty and I am sorry for that … I know the period of change ahead will not be easy.”
This comes following reports earlier in May when Boris Johnson announced he wanted to cut the civil service down by 90,000.
Thomas Kingsley31 May 2022 12:36
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Lord Moylan claims Boris Johnson couldn’t have been expected to read his own Covid laws
Thomas Kingsley31 May 2022 12:00
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