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    Cabinet Office told Hancock ‘to tone down China Covid lab leak claims’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Matt Hancock was instructed by the Cabinet Office to tone claims in his memoir that the Covid-19 pandemic originated from a laboratory leak in China, according to leaked correspondence. Officials are said to […] More

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    EU tells Rishi Sunak small boats plan ‘violates international law’

    Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight The EU has warned Rishi Sunak’s government that the plan to ban small boat migrants from making asylum claims in the UK “violates” international […] More

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    Dominic Raab ‘was warned by Boris Johnson about his conduct’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Boris Johnson privately warned Dominic Raab about his conduct and has given evidence to the bullying investigation into his former Cabinet colleague, it has been reported. The independent lawyer looking into formal complaints […] More

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    More than 200,000 back The Independent’s petition to stop Boris Johnson giving father a knighthood

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email More than 200,000 people have backed The Independent’s petition calling for Rishi Sunak to block Boris Johnson’s plans to grant his father an honour. The former prime minister put his father Stanley forward […] More

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    Why are migrants in small boats a heated issue in the UK?

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The message to asylum-seekers from British Home Secretary Suella Braverman was stark. “If you enter Britain illegally, you will be detained and swiftly removed.” The government hopes that decisive — and divisive — […] More