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Downing Street has refused to say if Rishi Sunak believes Boris Johnson misled MPs, repeatedly declining to express any view at all on a Commons vote which censured the former prime minister. Ministers were among 354 MPs who voted on Monday night to endorse a privileges’ committee report which found that Johnson had repeatedly lied when he assured the Commons he was unaware of lockdown-breaching parties. Only seven MPs voted against. Sunak was entirely absent from the near six-hour debate and the vote, with No 10 saying he had other engagements. Asked whether the prime minister had a view on the decision, which blocked Johnson from…

The “dumping” of hundreds of thousands of pieces of unused personal protective equipment near a nature reserve on the edge of the New Forest has mystified and angered local people. But the council has revealed the giant pile of boxes containing medical aprons in Calmore, Hampshire, will be recycled into plastic bags. Councillors said they reacted with horror after the discovery was made public at a Hampshire county council (HCC) meeting last week. It is not yet known if the items are linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the council has asked the Environment Agency to investigate. The large-scale discovery…

Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are finalizing a mega-deal worth up to $150 million to bring the superstar to MLS, Sportico reported Monday, June 18. That figure consists of salary, signing bonus and equity in the club and runs through the 2025 season with an option for 2026, per Sportico. Revenue-sharing agreements with Adidas, Apple and Fanatics, all of which are MLS partners, are not included in the initial figure. Messi already has a lifetime deal with Adidas, per Forbes. MLS is not subsidizing the contract, and Messi will not have the same option to buy an MLS team that…

Along with Ellwood’s comments, there was a less than ringing endorsement of Bailey’s position on Tuesday morning by the work and pensions secretary, Mel Stride, when asked if his party colleague should take the peerage. Stride told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “What is happening here, as I understand it, is that the Metropolitan police are looking into the events surrounding this Daily Mirror video that has recently been released and they will no doubt come to their conclusions and then there are mechanisms involving the forfeiture committee that can lead to changes to honours that have been given in…

Rishi Sunak’s attempts to move on from the legacy of Boris Johnson’s chaotic premiership have suffered a further setback as police announced they were “considering” fresh Partygate video footage of an event during lockdown at Conservative headquarters. The video, which was obtained by the Mirror newspaper, appears to show Conservative party staff drinking alcohol and dancing on 14 December 2020 at a gathering held by the campaign team of the unsuccessful London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, who has since been given a peerage in Johnson’s resignation honours list. The levelling up secretary, Michael Gove, apologised for the footage, describing the actions of…

A hospital and doctors in California are facing a new lawsuit for removing the breasts of a 13-year-old girl after she claimed she was a boy. The defendants carried out “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse” when they prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones and, later, performed a double mastectomy, Charles LiMandri, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff, Layla Jane, said in a statement. Jane, now 18, was influenced by people online when she was just 11 and told her parents that she was a boy, prompting them to ask for guidance from doctors. While three doctors said Jane was…

Service members who received general discharges when separated from the military for their refusal to obey the vaccine mandate say their transition to civilian life has been hampered because they were not given honorable discharges. The majority of service members kicked out over their refusal to get vaccinated received general discharges. With a general discharge, service members lose all educational benefits, reemployment rights, and civil service retirement credit. Hayden Robichaux, donor relations coordinator for the Mighty Oaks Foundation, is one such service member. He had to build a career in the Marine Corps. He spent his initial two years serving as the military…

It may be too soon to say they’re back but 11 years on Spain, once the World and European champions, unbeatable over four years and three tournaments, lifted a trophy again – watched by the team that have come so close and might never get the chance to try again. The greatest generation Croatia have ever had, a nation of just 3.8m people and a team of extraordinary talent and strength, seemingly unbreakable resilience, have given football so much but weren’t given it back. Runners-up at the World Cup in 2018, third in 2022, on Sunday night Zlatko Dalic’s side…

Dozens of Tory rightwing MPs are preparing to abstain from voting in the Commons on Monday over the parliamentary investigation that found Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs, in a sign of support for the former prime minister. Between 60 and 70 MPs with constituencies in the “red wall” were said to be feeling “incredibly warm” towards Johnson, after he urged his parliamentary supporters not to vote against the committee’s findings. The senior cabinet minister Michael Gove said on Sunday he disagreed with the outcome of the privileges committee investigation, and that he planned to abstain in the Commons. He said the committee’s recommendation that…

One of Australia’s top energy companies has been sued for allegedly using bids to manipulate power prices and inflict financial damage on customers. In early June, law firm Piper Alderman announced that it had launched a class action lawsuit against energy giant AGL following an investigation into abnormal hikes in electricity spot prices in South Australia, which is part of the National Electricity Market (NEM), between 2013 and 2020. The NEM has a spot market mechanism in which the electricity supply from power stations is matched with consumption by households and businesses in real time. All electricity in the spot market is…