96 m. ago Nadine Dorries’ defection is a major scalp for Reform – even if she won’t be missed by the Tories

Nadine Dorries is the latest of Boris Johnson’s most ardent supporters to join Nigel Farage and Reform, writes political editor David Maddox

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4 h. ago Former UK Minister and Boris Johnson ally defects to Reform UK

The high-proile Tory made the announcement as Reform UK prepares to hold its two-day conference

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5 h. ago Boris Johnson: New biography is wrong to claim the Queen was a Remainer

Boris Johnson gave a rebuttal to new royal biography of the late Queen - sharing what he believes was her true position on Brexit.

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20 h. ago Trump’s domestic troop deployments aren’t about crime – they’re about intimidation | Moira Donegan

The president is targeting Chicago in his latest bid to assert authority over Democratic governance and racial pluralism“We’re going in,” Donald Trump said on Tuesday, when asked whether national guard troops would be sent to invade Chicago. The comment came as reports emerged that national guard troops from Texas – not yet federalized under direct presidential control – were preparing to deploy to Chicago in the coming days, in defiance of the opposition repeatedly and forcefully expressed by the Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, and the Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, both Democrats.The White House and the president’s allies have claimed that the deployment is a response to violent crime in Chicago. This is a lie. Crime in Chicago has dropped dramatically over the past decades, as it has in every major American city – including Los Angeles, where Trump deployed the national guard and the marines earlier this year, and Washington DC, where armed federal agents have patrolled the stre...

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25 h. ago AD FEATURE: Pride of Britain winner sets sail on ‘magical’ surprise trip

After years campaigning for fellow victims of the infected blood scandal, Michelle Tolley couldn’t believe she had been gifted a P&O Cruises holiday

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61 h. ago Trump says he's ordering troops into 'hellholes' Chicago and Baltimore as tensions with local Democrat officials escalate

National Guard troops will be heading to Chicago - but President Donald Trump won't say when they will deploy.

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61 h. ago Nicola Sturgeon made the union 'safe for a long time', claims former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

The former Prime Minister said his old political foe had set back the independence cause with her record in office and leading the SNP through a financial scandal.

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3 d. ago Camilla told Boris Johnson she was ‘attacked’ by man on train according to new book

According to an extract, the author, former Times royal correspondent Valentine Low, spoke to Mr Johnson's former communications director Guto Harri

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3 d. ago Soldiers are doing landscaping in DC parks. I’m thrilled for them | Dave Schilling

They were deployed to fight crime. Instead, some are spreading mulch. It’s almost sweet – if you remove the contextIf soldiers are going to be deployed to your city, what would you prefer they do: point a rifle in your face or mow your grass? This is not a question I ever expected to have to consider in my days on this planet, but life is full of surprises. As part of Donald Trump’s military deployment to address Washington DC’s so-called “crime emergency”, national guard troops are being tasked with various groundskeeping duties around the United States capital. These duties include spreading mulch around cherry trees, picking up trash and general maintenance of public spaces. The president must have been too embarrassed to get Four Seasons Total Landscaping involved again, so he got the military to do it instead.It’s a real “swords into ploughshares” moment, or in this case, “M4 rifles into those grabber sticks you use to pick up plastic bottles full of piss.” It’s almost sweet, i...

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3 d. ago Voices: I’m with Camilla – sometimes you might just have to ‘whack a groper in the goolies’

As a new book reveals that the Queen once fought off a would-be attacker on London Underground, Victoria Richards says that sometimes, putting your own safety first is all that matters

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4 d. ago Queen Camilla showed her mettle as a teenager when she beat back a groper with her shoe

A new book on the UK royal family says Queen Camilla beat off an indecent attack when she was a teenager by taking off her shoe and bashing the assailant in the groin

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4 d. ago Queen Camilla fought off sexual assault as teenager, book claims

Valentine Low’s Power and the Palace relays story in which young Camilla ‘whacked attacker in the nuts’ on train to PaddingtonQueen Camilla was a victim of an attempted sexual assault as a teenager and used the heel of her shoe to fight off her attacker, a new book about the monarchy has claimed.According to Power and the Palace, serialised in the Sunday Times, the queen told Boris Johnson about the attack while he was mayor of London, a position he held from 2008 to 2016. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Queen Camilla ‘fought off sexual assault’ by stranger on a train as a teenager, new book claims

The Queen reportedly disclosed the story to Boris Johnson during a meeting in 2008

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4 d. ago Camilla told Boris Johnson she was ‘attacked’ by man on train – new book

Former Times royal correspondent Valentine Low wrote the book called Power And The Palace.

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4 d. ago Camilla was assaulted as a teenager. What the Queen told Boris Johnson

Camilla was assaulted as a teenager. What the Queen told Boris Johnson  The Times

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5 d. ago Boris Johnson 'deeply upset' Palace with one move and never apologised to Queen

Boris Johnson allegedly 'deeply upset' the Palace with a sly action he asked the late Queen to make while he was PM - and it's now been reported he never apologised to the monarch

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5 d. ago Terror boss who wanted to bomb the London Stock Exchange and was a close ally of London Bridge attacker is freed from jail

Mohammed Shahjahan - who grew up in Burslem and Cobridge - was put behind bars back in 2012 over a planned bombing spree, intending to target Boris Johnson , Big Ben and the Stock Exchange.

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6 d. ago BORIS JOHNSON: I thought it was absurd that men evolved to have beards

Why has the Almighty condemned the entire male sex to wear facial hair, this pointless and unsightly excrescence that must be harvested daily with nostril-chopping bits of plastic and steel?

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7 d. ago Boris Johnson's new summer beard in holiday snaps leaves him 'unrecognisable'

The former Prime Minister, 60, was pictured with greying facial hair in a snap showing him playing with his children in Greece.

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7 d. ago Boris Johnson stuns with new look in family holiday pictures

Boris Johnson looked less scruffy than usual as he sported a new bearded look

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