Watch live as Sir Michael Hodgkinson-former chair of Post Office Ltd and former senior non-executive director of Royal Mail Holdings plc-gives evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Thursday 11 April.He will be speaking after the inquiry was shown yesterday letters from former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells defending the Horizon system.Ms Vennells suggested “ temptation ” for subpostmasters to borrow money from tills was a problem and not the Horizon system. The probe into

' Brussels'EU army dreams shatteredAnd shortly before the seismic Brexit referendum in June 2016, she wrote: “ Don’t expect to hear the BBC pushing any of that through!... It will be music next.” Ms Dorries replaced Oliver Dowden-who has become the Conservative Party’s co-chair....

The former Tory MP and staunch Remainer said the appointment represented everything that is" wrong and rotten about this Prime Minister's stewardship of this country." Mr Johnson carried out a major reshuffle of his Cabinet on Wednesday, which saw several prominent ministers lose their jobs.... Vote here[ Spotlight] The 64-year-old, a vocal supporter of Brexit, becomes the 10th Culture Secretary in 10 years.Ms Soubry said the public wanted to see politicians with" big ideas" who can solve the t

Nobody seems to know what’s going on.” Mr Johnson resisted demands for the inquiry to be handed over to an external investigator, instead appointing Whitehall mandarin Sue Gray to complete the probe.... Our great United Kingdom is actually entirely run by a lady called Sue Gray, the head of ethics or something in the Cabinet Office.... Unless she agrees, things just don’t happen.” She is also part of the panel deciding who will be next chair of the media regulator Ofcom....

Sadly, it must be true, history does repeat itself.... In a way, I’m pleased I’m nearing the end of my pantomime career.“ I’m 69, I’ll be 70 next year, hopefully I’ll do one more pantomime and then I’ll retire from pantomime because it’s a joke, you soon won’t be able to do anything anywhere.... It is written as a tool to enable my constituents to know me better and to reassure them of my commitment to Mid Bedfordshire....

Sue Gray's initial findings into' partygate' were released by Boris Johnson on Monday 31 January.... In the 1980s, Ms Gray briefly paused her civil service career to buy a pub in Newry close to the Irish borderduring The Troubles.... “ She really cares about what goes on in Government....

In the 1980s, Sue Gray briefly paused her stellar civil service career to buy a pub in “ bandit country ” in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.... Nothing moves in Whitehall unless Sue says so.” She does not suffer fools.... On the subject of Ed Miliband, she told Mr Campbell that she liked him “ personally but felt he was weak ”....

Boris Johnson and MPs are bracing for the publication of the full Sue Gray report into the partygate scandal after the Met Police completed its investigation into Downing Street breaches of Covid restrictions.... She returned to the Cabinet Office in May 2021 to take up the post of second permanent secretary with the responsibility for the Union and Constitution. Now she is back and her report findings have been published, Boris Johnson will face the judgment of MPs.... Once the Metropolitan P

Our great United Kingdom is actually entirely run by a lady called Sue Gray, the head of ethics or something in the Cabinet Office.... Unless she agrees, things just don’t happen.” She was once described by BBC Newsnight’s then policy editor as “ the most powerful person you’ve never heard of ”.... Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner( Dominic Lipinski/ PA)( PA Wire) She said: “ At the moment, people are saying ‘which department didn’t have a party?...

31 departure from the bloc if the deal passed, something that Johnson said he would not do. BREXIT BREAKTHROUGH?... It would have also allowed the U.K.to leave at Oct.... 31. Johnson is required to send a letter to the E.U. tonight requesting another delay under a law called the Benn Act....