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Express
Allies of Rishi Sunak fear Boris Johnson could start his own political party following his explosive resignation as an MP, it has been reported.
Mr Johnson has told close pals he’s the victim of a plot to reverse Brexit but insists he has no intention of giving up, leading some to believe the former prime minister could form a new party in an effort to shake up the Westminster status quo.
The claims come after reports that Mr Johnson received an email outlining the findings in a report by a Commons committee investigating whether he lied to Parliament over Partygate while he was on a flight to Cairo in Egypt on Thursday.
The email from Commons Privileges Committee chairwoman Harriet Harman reportedly warned Mr Johnson that her findings would be strongly critical and merit a 10-day suspension from Parliament that could trigger a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.
Mr Johnson announced his resignation as an MP on Friday in a lengthy statement in which he said he was the victim of “a witch hunt” that was exacting revenge “for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result”.
Senior Conservatives have reportedly accused Mr Johnson of trying to “blow up the Tory party” and allies of Mr Sunak fear his predecessor-but-one could set up his own political party in a bitter act of revenge.
One loyalist to the Prime Minister told The Sun: “He could go nuclear and set up his own party. That would be wild, but he might.”
Those concerns were fuelled by leading Tory party figure David Campbell Bannerman who said he thinks a new Johnson-led party was possible.
“We could be in a ­position of having to renew the Conservative Party from the ground up,” he said. “The party is in a ­desperate state.”

Telegraph
Boris Johnson and his allies have launched a coordinated attack on Rishi Sunak’s government, threatening more parliamentary resignations after the Prime Minister’s “dishonorable” failure to back him on partygate and his honours list.
A source close to Mr Johnson said the three by-elections now triggered by the resignation of the former prime minister were an attempt to damage Mr Sunak after a bitter falling-out that followed secret talks between the pair eight days ago.
Two further allies of Mr Johnson were claimed to be on “resignation watch”, including a 2019-intake MP.
The source close to Mr Johnson claimed of some of Mr Sunak’s allies: “They think they can destroy Boris, which is obviously something that has never been achieved. His bounce-back ability is legendary.”
The source also claimed that Mr Sunak and his team conducted “a swindle … a dishonourable sleight of hand” by publishing a list of new peers that omitted some of the former prime minister’s key allies and donors.
No 10 said Mr Sunak had simply adopted the names “approved” by the House of Lords Appointments Commission.

Guardian
Rishi Sunak is under growing pressure to bar Boris Johnson from standing as a Conservative candidate at the next election, as senior Tories accused the former prime minister and his allies of a coordinated attempt to derail the government.
Amid anger at Johnson within the party over his explosive departure, in which he said he was only leaving Westminster “for now” and accused a cross-party committee of “egregious bias”, there is now a concerted push among senior Tories to ensure Johnson has no route back to the Commons for the foreseeable future.
One senior member of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, a former backer of Johnson, said it was the clear view among colleagues that he should be blocked from standing for another Tory seat at the next election.
“The pantomime has to end. He has to be stopped by whatever means and the sooner the better,” said the senior figure.
Another grandee on the backbenches, who is close to Sunak and who used to support Johnson, added: “The way he has behaved in insulting the process of the House of Commons is disgraceful. He thinks he can just casually insult parliament. If he is allowed to stand again he will continue to undermine the government.”
Writing in the Observer, former Tory deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine says Johnson’s angry resignation and threat of a return have “all the characteristics of a disaster turned into an opportunity”.
He should not be allowed to run for the party again, Lord Heseltine says. “That is Boris’s basic problem,” he writes. “Words are designed to make his audience believe whatever they want to believe. There is no anchor to any discernible truth or sense of integrity.

Independent
Rishi Sunak is facing a third by-election as fresh turmoil engulfed the Tories after another close Boris Johnson ally resigned from the Commons in an apparent revenge attack aimed at creating “chaos” for the prime minister.
Capping a tumultuous 24 hours, Mr Johnson’s friend Nigel Adams announced on Saturday that he was following the ex-PM and the former culture secretary Nadine Dorries in quitting parliament with “immediate effect”.
Senior Tories told The Independent that Mr Johnson and his “bitter” associates are “lashing out” in an attempt to damage the Sunak administration, as some speculated that they could coordinate a string of by-elections this summer.
But Sunak loyalists insist that the prime minister will be relieved at having a chance to draw a line under the “Boris madness” and reshape the party in his own image – however harmful potential by-election losses could prove to be in the short term.
Cabinet minister Michael Gove hit back after Mr Johnson’s angry tirade, in which the former prime minister declared that Mr Sunak is not leading a “properly Conservative government”. Asked what a Tory government would look like, Mr Gove told an event hosted by Tortoise: “The current one.”
The levelling-up secretary also defended the privileges committee, which is expected to hand Mr Johnson a suspension of more than 10 days, after the former PM described it as a “kangaroo court”. Mr Gove said: “I think we’ve got to trust their judgement.”

BBC News
Former Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Conservatives against any attempt to block Boris Johnson if he seeks to stand in another parliamentary constituency.
Mr Rees-Mogg told the Mail on Sunday that to do so could plunge the party “into civil war”.
Mr Johnson resigned as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip on Friday over the investigation into Partygate.
Mr Rees-Mogg was knighted in his resignation honours earlier that day.
A Conservative Party spokesman said all potential constituency candidates, former MPs or otherwise, went through the same process.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had “failed to end” what he called “the Tory chaos”, and called for a snap election.
Mr Johnson stepped down as an MP after he saw in advance a report by the Commons Privileges Committee investigating whether he deliberately misled the Commons over lockdown breaches in Downing Street.
In an explosive 1,000-word statement on Friday evening, Mr Johnson said: “I have received a letter from the Privileges Committee making it clear – much to my amazement – that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament.”
He argued the draft was “riddled with inaccuracies and reeks of prejudice”, calling the committee a “kangaroo court” whose purpose “has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts”.
The committee will not confirm the sanction recommended until it publishes its report into Mr Johnson, likely this week.

Mail
When Boris Johnson slipped unnoticed into Parliament just over a week ago for a secret meeting with Rishi Sunak, he came in peace.
The aim on both sides was to end the crippling pyschodrama between the two men, which has dogged the Prime Minister as he battles to haul back Labour‘s double-digit opinion poll lead.
Instead, the summit lit the fuse for Friday’s explosive resignation by Mr Johnson, which Tory MPs fear could lead to a rupture in the party as damaging as the long-running Brexit wars.
According to his allies, Mr Johnson left the meeting confident that his resignation honours list would be issued intact.
His mood had also been buoyed by separate assurances from Chief Whip Simon Hart that the report by the Commons privileges committee into Mr Johnson’s actions during Partygate would ‘land in the middle of expectations’ and be survivable.

ITV News
Overnight during ITV’s election broadcast on December 12 2019, all the chatter was about how Boris Johnson was likely to be PM for a decade, having just led his party to a near landslide victory.
Now he is quitting Parliament in a fit of indignation that a jury of his peers could doubt his integrity.
MPs’ de-facto court, the Privileges Committee, sent him documents that revealed to him their conviction he is guilty of recklessly lying to the Commons when saying there were no rule-breaking parties in Downing Street.
He opted to jump rather than hang around for them to pronounce guilty in public – which they will early next week.
His departure is just weeks after his party was humiliated in local elections and when pretty much all opinion polls show it is around 14 points behind Labour.
In the history of political reversals, I can recall nothing like it.
There is an argument that Johnson fundamentally changed Britain, by giving the UK Brexit – the referendum result and the eventual deal – but in the chaos of his premiership also wrecking his own party.

Sun
BORIS Johnson received the killer email which blew up his career as an MP as he jetted to Cairo at lunchtime on Thursday.
The former PM looked grim-faced after taking his seat in business class on flight BA384 to the Egyptian capital.
He has since told pals he has been the victim of a plot to reverse Brexit and insisted: “I am not going to give up.”
Mr Johnson was forced to quit after a senior Tory MP on the privileges committee investigating whether he lied to the Commons over Partygate put the boot in.
It was equally split over whether to give him his marching orders with a ten-day suspension until Sir Bernard Jenkin sided with Labour.

Labour Party

Sun
SIR Keir Starmer is tearing up key planks of his asylum policy in another U-turn.
Labour’s flip flop comes just days after they watered down their flagship £28billion green investment plan ­— admitting it would spook the markets and push up mortgage rates.
Sir Keir ran for the party leadership on a platform of ten ­electoral promises to voters.
His promises included a vow to “end indefinite detention and call for the closure of centres such as Yarl’s Wood”.
Yarl’s Wood is an immigration detention centre in Bedford where migrants are held before they are deported.
But The Sun on Sunday understands that Sir Keir is now binning the policy.
Instead, Labour will go into the next election vowing to get the ­massive asylum backlog down and to improve conditions in centres.

Express
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has reportedly dropped a key election pledge on asylum seekers in another policy U-turn.
After backtracking on a £28 billion green prosperity plan, Sir Keir is now reported to be going back on a promise to “end indefinite detention” of asylum seekers and “call for the closure of centres such as Yarl’s Wood”.
Yarl’s Wood is an immigration detention centre in Bedford where migrants are housed before being deported.
Labour source is reported to have confirmed that its asylum pledge has been abandoned.
Instead, the party is now reportedly planning on going into the next general election saying it will aim to reduce the huge asylum backlog and improve conditions in detention centres so they do not have to close.

Independent
Keir Starmer has called for a snap general election, saying Rishi Sunak has lost control of his government.
The Labour leader says the Prime Minister is not strong enough to stand up to his party as it descends into chaos after the shock resignation of Boris Johnson.
Mr Starmer today says people have had enough of the “farce” of Tory rule and want a general election now.
He accused Rishi Sunak of losing control as the Conservatives descend into civil war following Boris Johnson’s shock resignation.
Mr Starmer said the Prime Minister wasn’t strong enough to “stand up to the Tory berserkers determined to drag the country down with them.”
He added: “Rishi Sunak must finally find a backbone, call an election, and let the public have their say on 13 years of Tory failure.
“This farce must stop. People have had enough.”

ITV News
Sir Keir Starmer is demanding a snap election as the Conservative Party is hit by turmoil.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing a third by-election test after a close ally of Boris Johnson resigned from the Commons with “immediate effect”.
In a tumultuous 24 hours for the Tory Party, Nigel Adams MP announced on Saturday that he was following the former prime minister and former culture secretary Nadine Dorries’ lead in quitting Westminster.
ITV News Political Editor Robert Peston understands “one more” resignation could follow those that have already been served.
In the wake of the wave of resignations, Labour leader Sir Keir tweeted: “This farce must stop. People have had enough of a shambolic Tory government and a weak Prime Minister no one voted for.”Rishi Sunak must finally find a backbone, call an election, and let the public have their say on 13 years of Tory failure.”

Illegal Migration Bill

BBC News
The Illegal Migration Bill breaches a “number of the UK’s human rights obligations”, MPs and peers have said.
The bill, which aims to deport those arriving in the UK without permission, would deny the majority of refugees any access to the asylum system, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said.
Children and victims of trafficking and modern slavery would be impacted, chairwoman Joanna Cherry added.
The government said it took its international obligations seriously.
However, it has faced criticism from opposition parties and charities, who argue the bill is unworkable and could breach international law.
The legislation, intended to try to stop people crossing the English Channel in small boats, has already passed the Commons but has run into strong opposition in the House of Lords.
It would give ministers the power to remove anyone arriving in the UK illegally, and migrants would then be barred from claiming asylum.
Instead they would be detained and removed, either to Rwanda – with which the UK has an agreement – or another “safe country”.

NHS

Telegraph
The NHS cannot cope with continued strikes and efforts to cut waiting list backlogs are in jeopardy, health chiefs have warned.
Junior doctors are due to start their third walkout on Wednesday at 7am in a strike lasting 72 hours, which will see medics withdraw from A&E departments and critical care, as well as routine services.
Their leaders at the British Medical Association (BMA) have issued threats to strike for three days a month throughout “summer and winter… for as long as it takes”.
Dr Vin Diwakar, the NHS medical director for secondary care, said on Saturday that the situation facing the NHS was “clearly unsustainable”, with more than half a million operations and appointments already cancelled as a result of industrial action.
Hospital consultants have also announced strike dates for next month, if their BMA ballot is successful, in what would be the eighth month of NHS industrial action.
Latest NHS figures show a record 7.4 million people on waiting lists. Data published on Thursday also show more than 371,000 people waiting at least a year for treatment, up from 360,000 the previous month.
Dr Diwakar said NHS staff would make every effort to prioritise urgent cases, but said the continued disruption was hindering the ability of the health service to provide care.
“Industrial action has hampered the health service’s ability to deliver care for almost seven months and this is clearly unsustainable, with around half a million appointments needing to be rescheduled so far,” he said.

Dam

Express
Evidence has emerged which strengthens Ukraine’s claim Russia blew up the dam at Nova Kakhovka. The Norwegian seismic monitoring organisation Norsar has said one of its regional stations had detected signs of a blast at the dam. It comes as Kyiv released a recording of what it said pointed to Russian responsibility for the damage.
Seismic centres in Romania detected evidence of an explosion at 2.54am on Tuesday within a radius of less than 20 miles around the dam on the Dnieper River.
The timing coincides with first reports of the dam’s collapse with only a large quantity of explosives capable of producing a signal picked up almost 400 miles away.
Norsar reported weak signals at 2.35am Ukrainian time coming from the direction of Nova Kakhovka.
Ukraine on Friday released a recording of what it says is an intercept of two Russian military men talking about how Moscow was responsible for blowing up the dam.
In the unverified recording posted on Telegram by the SBU, one of the men says a sabotage group from Russia was responsible but the explosion had gone further than planned.

UFO

Mail
A crashed UFO recovered by the US military ‘distorted space-time’ and was ‘bigger on the inside’, claims a top attorney involved in bringing UFO whistleblowers to Congress.
Daniel Sheehan says he was told the mind-boggling tale by a whistleblower who allegedly took part in an illegally-undisclosed program retrieving crashed non-human spacecraft – and who has now briefed Senate Intelligence Committee staff.
The lawyer’s story is the latest in a series of stunning claims this week of UFOs in the government’s hands, which began on Monday with an on-camera interview of former senior Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch alleging that the US government possesses multiple crashed ‘non-human’ craft.
The Department of Defense says it has ‘not discovered any verifiable information’ to support any of the claims.
But Sheehan has been helping bring whistleblowers like Grusch to Congress in an attempt to expose what he believes is a government cover-up of encounters with extraterrestrials.
The attorney told DailyMail.com that one alleged recovery, recounted to him by a supposed crash retrieval program insider, involved a 30ft saucer partially embedded in the earth, with some fantastical properties.