I think it’s being overdone, but to a degree, I think maybe the way it’s been responded to has fed that.“ But I think right now, Labour are in a position where they can’t do right.“ Keir Starmer did declare the clothes, I think, as office expenses.... That was wrong.“ Then he declared them as clothes.... Under Tony Blair’s premiership, Mr Vince was made an OBE in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to the environment and the electricity industry....

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ruled out an investigation into complaints that Tory peers had paid for peerages....

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The former Number 10 senior advisor made those allegations during his second public interview since leaving office.... Mr Cummings also claimed Mr Johnson discussed giving his now-wife Carrie Johnson a role that involved lots of travel.... I’m quite happy to live with the chaos because then everyone will stick to the king – which is me.’ “ Chaos doesn’t scare him the way it does most people....

The Prince of Wales’s foundation is facing a police investigation over claims that one of his closest aides offered to help secure a knighthood and British citizenship for a billionaire Saudi donor. Michael Fawcett, the Prince’s former valet, stepped down temporarily as chief executive of The Prince’s Foundation after a letter emerged in which he said the charity would be “ willing and happy ” to use its influence to help businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz in light of his ongoing “ ge

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