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Boris Johnson has acknowledged that the government’s defeat in two by-elections were not “brilliant results” – but insisted he was not worried about Conservative MPs plotting to replace him while he’s abroad. The prime minister was speaking at a press conference in Rwanda hours after the Liberal Democrats overturned the Tories’ 24,000 majority to win
Thousands of people have marched in central London demanding more action from the government over the rising cost of living. Beginning in Portland Place, they walked to Parliament Square for a rally organised by the TUC. Banners read “end fuel poverty, insulate homes now”, “nurses not nukes” and “cut war not welfare”. Songs including I
Young gymnasts were starved and made to hang from the rings in punishment as part of an abusive culture in British Gymnastics, according to a damning new report. The Whyte Review, which examined over 400 complaints, uncovered an “unacceptable culture” that has left countless young people humiliated, shamed and permanently psychologically or physically damaged by