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The Independent’s editor-in-chief Geordie Greig described David Cameron as a ‘Rolls-Royce’ returning to politics during a new interview on Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg this morning (14 January).“He’s smooth, he’s persuasive, he powers along”, Mr Greig noted, adding that there were ‘definitely bumps in the road’ – referring to the foreign secretary’s refusal to say how much he was paid by Greensill Capital.“Such a flatterer!”, Isabel Oakeshott responded to the analogy, however, Mr Greig insisted we’d “seen it all before”.David Cameron also appeared on the show, as well as Labour leader, Keir Starmer. More

Foreign secretary David Cameron has refused to disclose how much he was paid by Greensill Capital for work undertaken when he stepped away from politics.Documents seen by the BBC suggest the former prime minister allegedly received a sum of around £10 million, however, Cameron says he was a ‘private citizen’ during the work, and has the right to keep it under wraps.”That isn’t true”, he claimed of the figure during an appearance on Laura Kuenssberg’s show, and admits he’s given up his ‘other roles’ since rejoining government.”I’ve given all the information to the person responsible for registering a minister’s interests.” More

Sir Ed Davey declined ten times to explicitly apologise over inaction in the Post Office scandal.Speaking to ITV News, the Liberal Democrats leader said he “deeply regrets not getting to the bottom of the lies that were told” when he was postal minister in the coalition government.Sir Ed was told of concerns about the faulty software before hundreds of postmasters were prosecuted.”I deeply regret that I was lied to on an industrial scale,” he added.He said his “heart goes out to the people that were hit” by accusations of theft, fraud, and false accounting due to faulty computers. More

David Cameron appeared to not rule out further action against Houthi rebels in Yemen after UK and US forces bombed military facilities on Thursday night (10 January).Speaking on Friday, the foreign secretary told NBC News: “We will do what is necessary to protect our ships… What we were doing – warnings – was not working.”Strikes on Thursday night were the first to be launched against the militants since they began attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.The Ministry of Defence said four Royal Air Force jets struck two Houthi facilities involved in their targeting of HMS Diamond and US Navy vessels on Tuesday. More

The Royal Navy is “hollowed out and underfunded,” the shadow defence secretary has suggested.Speaking on Friday morning (12 January), after the UK and US launched targeted strikes against military facilities used by Houthi rebels in Yemen, John Healey shared his worries over the resources available to the armed forces.“The former defence secretary told me in the House of Commons, he admitted that over the last 13 years, the government has hollowed out and underfunded the forces,” he said.“It is important that we are able [to] – as we have in recent weeks in the Red Sea and wider region – act alongside allies.” More

Fiona Bruce and Andrea Leadsom had a tense exchange as they discussed inaction over the Post Office scandal during Thursday’s (11 January) Question Time.The programme’s host clashed with the Conservative junior minister and Northamptonshire South MP after she claimed politicians were campaigning for justice for subpostmasters “for a very long time.”“But it didn’t happen, that’s the point,” Bruce responded.It comes after lawyers told The Independent that hundreds of subpostmasters who have not made claims may be too “traumatised” to come forward because of mistrust in the government and Post Office. More

“Vile, misogynistic comments” are putting women and girls off participating in sport, a Labour minister has said.Speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday (11 January), shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire said every sports organisation should have a strategy to tackle sexual harassment and abuse.She added: “Unfortunately there’s been a spate in recent weeks of disgusting sexist, misogynistic abuse directed towards sports women just for being at the top of their game.”It comes after sports minister Stuart Andrew condemned “dangerous” comments made by Joey Barton about female football commentators and pundits and said he will take the issue up with social media platforms. More

A Post Office investigator has denied claims he and others “behaved like Mafia gangsters” who were looking to collect “bounty with the threats and lies” from subpostmasters.Stephen Bradshaw, who has been employed at the Post Office since 1978, did however tell the inquiry he was not “technically minded” and was not equipped to know whether there were bugs or errors in the Horizon system.He submitted a witness statement to the Horizon IT inquiry in which he said: “I refute the allegation that I am a liar.”“I am not technically minded, I would expect that to come from people above,” Mr Bradshaw said on reports of issues with the IT system.“If there was an issue, I would expect Fujitsu to inform the Post Office, and the Post Office to let us know what the issues are.” More