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Rishi Sunak has revealed that his former boss, Boris Johnson, has not returned any of his messages and calls since he resigned from his Cabinet as Chancellor, implying tension between the duo as the British Indian former minister battles it out in a tough race to be elected the next leader of the U.K.‘s governing Conservative Party. Mr. Sunak, who is going head-to-head with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in the race to succeed Mr. Johnson as British Prime Minister, was asked if he had spoken to the outgoing Prime Minister in recent weeks at a Tory members hustings at Cheltenham in the south-west of England on Thursday night. Also Read I would rather lose than win on a false promise: Rishi Sunak During a questions session with each candidate separately, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ associate editor Camilla Tominey as the moderator asked Mr. Sunak his views on the ongoing parliamentary investigation into whether Johnson misled Parliament over the partygate scandal of COVID … [Read more...] about ‘Unsurprisingly, Boris Johnson has not returned my calls’: Rishi Sunak

Boris Johnson has rejected pleas to hold an emergency budget now to fight the cost-of-living spiral hitting Brits this Autumn. Downing Street said it will be for the next Prime Minister - who only takes office in a month - to decide any new help for Brits to pay energy bills . No10 also dismissed ex-PM Gordon Brown’s plea for COBRA to sit in “permanent session” as the economic storm is unleashed. And the PM’s spokesman said there were no plans to recall Parliament. He said it would be "inappropriate" to say if more needs to be done to help Brits. It comes after the PM and his wife Carrie enjoyed a mini-moon at a “soothing energies” mountain villa where guests dine on bear while officials predicted the worst recession since the 1990s. The lame duck Prime Minister returned last night after four nights at Vila Planinka in Slovenia, which urges guests to ditch their phones and laptops in rooms costing £242 to £542 a night. Vila Planinka in Slovenia, which urges guests … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson rejects pleas to hold emergency budget to fight cost-of-living spiral

Tory leaders have ditched plans to house asylum seekers at a closed RAF base in Yorkshire. In a plan unveiled by Priti Patel and Boris Johnson , the Home Office claimed in April that it would “shortly open a new, bespoke, asylum reception centre in Linton-on-Ouse”. Up to 1,500 men were due to be housed there under the scheme, which was detailed as part of the bid to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. Boris Johnson claimed the centre would be “like those in Greece” and the first tranche of 60 men were meant to have been moved there by the end of May. But there was a fierce local backlash, with local Tory MP Kevin Hollinrake branding the plan in a village of 600 people “absolutely disgraceful”. Now the site has been “withdrawn” for Home Office use - and both candidates for Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss , have said it will not go ahead. However, the door appeared to remain open to opening an accommodation centre or centres on a different site in future. … [Read more...] about Tories ditch Priti Patel’s plan to house asylum seekers on RAF base in Yorkshire