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The scheme has already been found to have contributed to a rise in infections.
Furious rebels accuse PM of “cynical manipulation” as Johnson's majority is slashed to just 15.
Leading rebel Stephen McPartland told HuffPost UK 38 Tories now back his amendment to ensure flat owners do not have to pay for fire safety work.
The government is facing another big Tory rebellion, this time over the cladding scandal which has seen people trapped in unsafe, unsellable flats after the Grenfell disaster, because their buildings are covered in unsafe material. Boris Johnson’s lockdown caution is also causing consternation on the backbenches, as the vaccine rollout continues to move along at pace.
Tory insiders tell HuffPost UK what to expect from the "relaxed" and pragmatic old Etonian and first elected Black secretary of state.
Former minister claims it would be "thought crime" if the Conservative whip was withdrawn.
It’s been a quiet year. Not much happened really. The sh*tshow that was 2020 in 220 seconds.
On July 17th the possibility of a “normal” Christmas was first delivered by Boris Johnson. Since then, we’ve had a second national lockdown, introductions of tiers, a plan to deliver Christmas above all else and finally the crushing dashing of those hopes the weekend before Christmas.
Even Tory MPs are calling for a delay as Brexit threatens to combine with Covid to plunge Britain into a bleak midwinter.
In the final episode of 2020 (usual Brexit caveats apply), Arj Singh, Paul Waugh, Rachel Weatmouth and Conservative MP Lee Rowley look back at the past week, as well as the past year, in Westminster, and wonder what might be on the horizon.