PA Media Boris Johnson is facing calls to suspend his former deputy chief whip as a Tory MP, after allegations he groped two men at a private members’ club. Chris Pincher quit his government post on Thursday, saying in a resignation letter he “drank far too much” and “embarrassed myself and other people”. Labour’s Yvette
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Getty Images A rail workers’ union has said it is “not in any rush” to call for further strikes in July, following last week’s walkouts which caused significant disruption across the UK. Eddie Dempsey, senior assistant general secretary at the RMT, said the union did not “take these steps lightly”. Mr Dempsey, who is also
Ukraine’s DSNS emergency service At least 19 people, including one child, have died in overnight Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, Ukrainian officials say. The state emergency service, DSNS, says nearly all of the victims were in a nine-storey building hit by one missile in the village of Serhiyivka. At least two people,
When news broke on NBA draft night that Kevin Durant was “monitoring the Brooklyn Nets’ situation and considering options with his future,” the team’s former assistant general manager turned ESPN front-office insider Bobby Marks suggested a trade “return package on Durant would be the largest in league history.” It better be, because the Nets are
Getty Images In 1997 Hong Kong was handed back to China, triggering the start of a grand political experiment. Many were anxious about how the capitalist, free-wheeling former British colony would fare under Communist Chinese rule. So Beijing promised Hong Kong’s civil liberties and freedom – unavailable in the mainland – would be preserved for