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Boris Johnson faces having his parliamentary pass removed after being found to have “deliberately” misled MPs over partygate, triggering a furious response from the former prime minister. The House of Commons Privilege Committee said in its long-awaited report that a 90-day Commons suspension would have been proposed if Mr Johnson was still an MP. In turn, Mr Johnson accused the committee of being a “kangaroo court”, with its seven MPs accused of delivering the “final knife-thrust in a protracted political assassination”. The report’s publication on Thursday morning now tees up a crunch vote on Monday that could see MPs wave through the report’s…

Students at a middle school near Boston revolted against Pride Month celebrations and destroyed rainbow decorations, according to school officials. The incident was sparked after the school’s Spectrum club for LGBT students celebrated the beginning of Pride Month by distributing rainbow stickers, plastering Pride signs, and by telling their peers to wear rainbow clothing, the Boston Globe reported. Children attending Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington were encouraged by their teachers to support the student group, on June 2, in celebration of Pride Month, Boston 25 News reported. However, some students refused and instead tore down the rainbow decorations, wore patriotic colors, and chanted…

LONDON—The total prize money at Wimbledon this year will rise by more than 11 percent, with the winners of the singles each getting 2.35 million pounds ($3 million). The total prize fund at the championships will be 44.7 million pounds ($56.5 million), the All England Club said Wednesday. That is an increase of 17.1 percent compared to 2019, the last Wimbledon before the pandemic. The earnings for the winners of the singles competitions are back to the levels they were in 2019. The prize for the singles champions had dipped to 1.7 million pounds in 2021, after the tournament was…

Arsenal have had an opening offer of £80m for Declan Rice turned down by West Ham, who anticipate Manchester City entering the bidding for the midfielder. West Ham want £100m for Rice and the expectation at the start of the week was that Arsenal would meet the asking price by including various add-ons. Initial talks had progressed well and there was confidence the transfer would not turn into a saga. However, Arsenal’s first proposal has fallen well below West Ham’s valuation. The north London club hope to spread the cost over a long period and looked to include add-ons that were seen…

Boris Johnson has called for a Conservative MP on the privileges committee to resign as a furious blue-on-blue row erupted on the eve of a long-awaited report that will find he misled parliament over Partygate. In an attempt to disparage the findings of the report, Johnson called allegations that Bernard Jenkin attended a birthday drinks in parliament during Covid restrictions a “total contempt of parliament” and said he has “no choice” but to recuse himself from the panel. The move was called “utterly desperate” by senior Tories who believe the storm was blown up by Johnson to undermine the privileges…

Boris Johnson has made an 11th-hour intervention that looks set to delay the publication of a report expected to find he misled parliament over Partygate until Thursday at the earliest. Having quit as an MP in fury on Friday after receiving a private copy of the findings, lawyers for the former prime minister sent a letter at 11.57pm on Monday night that is being considered by the privileges committee. MPs on the cross-party group, which has a Tory majority and Labour chair, had been hoping to bring their year-long inquiry to an end on Wednesday with a definitive conclusion about Johnson’s conduct.…

A coalition of states has filed a lawsuit seeking a review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to grant waivers to California that allows the state to ban new diesel-powered heavy-duty truck sales in 2035. Iowa’s Attorney General Brenna Bird led the group of 19 states that filed the legal action on June 5 in the Washington, D.C. appeals court. The states are asking the court for a review of the EPA’s final action in April to grant the California Air Resource Board two waivers to set stricter emissions rules than the federal Clean Air Act allows, clearing a path for…

Andy Murray said he did not know whether play would go ahead at the Nottingham Open after the “heartbreaking” incident in the city centre overnight. Three people were killed and another three were in hospital after an attack in the early hours of the morning, with much of the local area cordoned off. Play did go ahead as planned and Murray, fresh from his title success at Surbiton last week, got his campaign in the Challenger event off to a winning start with a routine 6-3, 6-4 victory over Belgian minnow Joris De Loore. But Murray, who ate out in Nottingham…

Boris Johnson has told the parliamentary committee investigating him to publish their “nonsense” after they delayed the publication of a report set to conclude that he misled MPs over lockdown-breaking parties. The conclusions of the Commons privileges committee investigation into partygate were due to be published on Tuesday, then Wednesday. Now they are expected on Thursday after the committee revealed that it received a letter from the former prime minister at 11.57pm on Monday, containing what The Telegraph understands is a “point-by-point pushback” of the conclusions. In a statement released on Tuesday night, Mr Johnson criticised the delay, saying: “The privileges committee…

The £2.3bn from the sale of Chelsea which was pledged to Ukraine war victims is in limbo amid European Union demands about how the money should be spent. When Roman Abramovich sold the football club almost 13 months ago, sources say he agreed with the Government that the money would be used for “all victims of the war in Ukraine”, as well as supporting the “long-term work of recovery”. Mr Abramovich is under sanctions after ministers accused him of having “clear connections” to Vladimir Putin’s regime and being among a group of businessmen of having “blood on their hands”. However, the huge…