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Downing Street says the PM has full confidence in his then-press secretary despite an intense backlash.
“We cannot say one thing and do another. We have to be believed, we have to be trusted," said Roger Gale.
Oliver Dowden played down a 10 per cent swing to Labour in Old Bexley and Sidcup, saying: "I am really not terribly worried.”
Louie French succeeds the late Cabinet minister James Brokenshire.
Desmond Swayne took issue with a proposal to oblige MPs to demonstrate 'anti-discriminatory attitudes and behaviours' in a shakeup of standards.
Parliament's standards committee also suggests there should be an outright ban on MPs providing paid parliamentary advice, consultancy or strategy services.
Apparently the woke brigade wants to makeover Notre Dame, cancel Christmas and infiltrate public schools.
The chair of the women and equalities committee accused the prime minister's father of inappropriately touching her at a conference event in 2003.
The prime minister has been forced to clean up rules around MPs' outside interests following a hellish fortnight he'd rather forget.
Boris Johnson tried to sweep the 'Tory sleaze' claims under the rug on Monday – but one Conservative MP stopped him.