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Parliament's culture, media and sport committee has demanded to know the BBC's response to the memo, setting Monday as a deadline. The BBC's board is compiling its response. However, insiders believe the leaking of the memo to the Daily Telegraph and the criticisms that have followed from Johnson are part of a concerted attempt to undermine the organisation, which is heading into crucial talks with the government over the renewal of its charter.

Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven. Just not if you happened to be a schoolkid during the pandemic. Then you were being asked to make the biggest sacrifices to protect elderly people, even though you were the least at risk. Still, I suppose there was a lesson in there somewhere. Almost everyone who comes into contact however indirectly with Boris Johnson generally finds they have been done over at some point.

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More than 8m of taxpayers' money has been spent on funding the public lives of former prime ministers over the last three decades, a Guardian analysis has found. All former PMs are able to claim up to 115,000 a year until the end of their lives in a subsidy to enable them to contribute to public life after they have left Downing Street.

A foreign billionaire had a Downing Street meeting and phone calls with then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson and was described in an official log as a "donor", documents seen by BBC News reveal. Syrian-born former arms deal fixer Wafic Said is not allowed to make political donations because he is a not on the UK electoral roll but his wife, a British citizen who is resident, has declared 2.6m in donations to the Conservatives over the last 25 years.

Maybe Newsom should try the Pete-Bobby challenge: 100 push-ups, 50 pull-ups in 10 minutes, said Watters on his show Jesse Watters Primetime. Let's see what he's got, 'cause last time we looked he was knocking down Chinese kids like bowling pins. Watters then played a video of Newsom accidentally knocking over and falling on a child while playing basketball during a 2023 trip to Beijing.

The Reform UK leader calls net zero lunacy that destroys jobs and drives up household bills, tapping into grievance against elites to rally voters.