Exclusive: A spy working for Canadian intelligence smuggled Shamima Begum and her two friends from Bethnal Green into Syria and Britain later conspired with Canada to cover up its role, according to explosive news claims
@thetimes
🚨EXCLUSIVE: The Prime Minister’s father has ignored the Foreign Office travel warning to visit his holiday home in Greece.
Speaking from the balcony of his villa last night, Stanley Johnson urged his son to sort out air bridges and said Brits pose ‘no danger’ to Greece.
'Who stands for hours to watch royals attend a thanksgiving service? Primarily people who respect tradition, enjoy pageantry, feel positive about British institutions ... A Tory PM should be worried about being booed by people like that.'
Scotland Yard was told the teenagers were trafficked into Syria by a people-smuggler, a double agent working for ISIS and Canadian intelligence.
An inquiry has been demanded after it emerged Canada knew about their fate but kept silent while the Met ran an international search.
Bombshell political exclusive in
@TheTimes
tonight.
Gove endorses Sunak and announces he is bringing his frontline political career to a close.
He says Truss’s campaign has been a “holiday from reality” and that her tax cuts will put FTSE 100 executives before the poorest.
Letter in
@thetimes
from a reader whose 6ft 4in father lived in Nottingham Cottage for ten years and found it perfectly comfortable… but then he had spent three-and-a-half years as a Burma POW.
Scott Benton, the MP for Blackpool South, guaranteed he could leak a copy of a forthcoming white paper on gambling reforms to the company at least 48 hours before it went public, potentially allowing them to profit from market-sensitive information.
EXC. Tory MP offered to leak a confidential policy document and lobby ministers on behalf of gambling industry investors in return for thousands of pounds a month, undercover
@thetimes
investigation reveals tonight.
Some of Boris Johnson’s aides are believed to have had sex at 10 Downing Street during a party that took place during lockdown on the eve of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral. More partygate revelations from
@georgegrylls
and
@hzeffman
Picture of the week. Air Force One and
@POTUS
pass metres above a pebble dashed terrace in Hounslow on final approach to LHR. Superb shot by
@ManAviation1107
.
Although Greece has banned direct UK flights, Mr Johnson was able to take a Wizz Air flight from Luton to Athens via Sofia. He stressed his trip is ‘essential business’ to make his four-bed villa Covid-secure ahead of the holiday letting season.
Delighted to say that I have been promoted to news editor of
@thetimes
, beginning later this summer. I look forward to leading our world-class news editors, reporters and specialists as we continue to smash audience records. A tremendous opportunity for which I am very grateful👍
🚨 Delighted to announce I’ve been appointed deputy news editor of The Times, starting next month.
I’ve had a terrific eight years at the Mail, where I’ve been lucky to have many brilliant opportunities.
Although I’ll miss my colleagues, I’m looking forward to a new challenge.
He boasted of his “easy access to ministers” and said he was prepared to “literally sit outside” a minister’s office if the company needed an urgent answer to a question. He also claimed many MPs who accepted corporate hospitality were willing to table questions in return.
Exclusive 🚨
President Zelensky has been blocked by the BBC and other broadcasters from addressing the world at the Eurovision Song Contest. Organisers feared his address to millions of viewers would politicise the contest.
✍🏻
@alexfarber
Gove says: “I am deeply concerned that the framing of the leadership debate by many has been a holiday from reality … I cannot see how safeguarding the stock options of FTSE 100 executives should ever take precedence over supporting the poorest in our society.”
Big day for spotters: Thursday is planned to be the last time a BA 747 departs Heathrow. The final two in storage will take off simultaneously from both runways. One will circle over the airfield in a farewell gesture to its home of 20 years before heading to the scrapyard.
An asteroid destroyed Earth in a doomsday
@NASA
exercise carried out last month. The week-long simulation revealed there is nothing we can do to save mankind if an asteroid is spotted only six months before impact. ☄️🌎
Councils are abandoning Covid road schemes following a backlash from residents and business, we reveal today. Cycle lanes and low traffic zones that were installed weeks ago - at huge cost to taxpayers - are being torn out to free up traffic and reduce pollution.
@DailyMailUK
🚨 Election exclusive
Reform overtakes Tories for the first time, YouGov poll in
@thetimes
shows.
The so-called crossover is a milestone moment in the campaign.
Sue Gray’s report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street is so damning that senior officials believe it could leave Boris Johnson with no choice but to resign as prime minister,
@thetimes
has been told.
Bit of news: next week will be my last as Transport Correspondent. From late December I will be Associate News Editor at the
@DailyMailUK
. It has been such an interesting year on the beat and I will miss it. Thanks to everyone who helped me on stories ✌🏻🗞
Today we, The Times, joined journalists around the world on a 5k run marking the anniversary of the wrongful detention of our
@WSJ
colleague Evan Gershkovich in Russia.
#IRanForEvan
@thetimes
‘That William —like his father— has a temper is well known. But the claim that he would grab his brother and knock him to the floor takes things to a new level. William will find it hard to shake off: he will always be the prince who attacked his brother’
To those who think news doesn’t pay… Profits at
@thetimes
and
@thesundaytimes
jumped to a record £34m in the year to June, driven by massive digital growth. In that time the number of digital-only subscribers increased from 31,000 to 367,000 (63% of subscribers overall) 👊📱📝
Delighted that
@thetimes
won Daily Newspaper of the Year at the Press Awards last night. A big win after a year of sensational scoops from the team. 🙅♂️
A lovely surprise to win Travel Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards✈️Huge thanks to
@EditorsUK
and congratulations to all winners
@DailyMailUK
and beyond. What a year...
Great dispatch from Calais by
@matt_dathan
.
"Everyone
@thetimes
spoke to at the camp is undeterred. The reaction among migrants living in tents at the deal signed by Patel ranged from bewilderment to nonchalance. Most plan to call her bluff."
Very lucky to to news edit
@thetimes
this week with
@sebmann1
,
@OliviaAlabaster
,
@greentoby
and our superb newsdesk. This week’s editions were a labour of love by my colleagues, planned for many years before I joined. But felt immensely privileged to be a cog in the machine.
Boris ‘wandered around gladhanding people’ as Downing St partygoers sipped Tesco rosé and joked about surveillance drones flying overhead.
Great partygate read by
@Steven_Swinford
&
@hzeffman
EXCLUSIVE: Tories demand u-turn on bike lanes and road closures. MPs sign letter to
@grantshapps
warning of ‘palpable anger’ over traffic schemes brought in during the pandemic. They say the £250m fund for road projects represents ‘war’ on motorists.
🔥Day two of our cash-for-access investigation.
MPs avoid having to declare corporate jollies by allowing companies to put a falsely low value on tickets they have accepted for events, Tory MP tells our undercover reporters.
Scott Benton said there “were ways around” the rules
🚨EXC. Low traffic neighbourhoods brought in during the pandemic are turning residential areas into ‘crime hotspots’ and forcing ambulances to wait in standstill traffic.
Revelations buried in an
@EalingCouncil
report intensifies pressure
@grantshapps
to scrap hundreds of LTNs.
"The consequence of McDonald’s letter is that it makes Boris Johnson’s continued leadership of the Conservative Party even more uncertain. A loyal cabinet minister admitted this morning that the letter would 'need some very careful reflection'."
@hzeffman
‘Anoushka hadn’t even intended to join The Queue. She had scoffed at the madness. “For the first hour, I was in denial I was even in The Queue.” She had no water, coat and hadn’t fed the cat, but she got sucked in. Such is the seductiveness of The Queue.’
On
@thetimes
tonight — Starmer has failed to heal the rift within his party and is said to have “made matters worse” after comments that left Muslim voters feeling “gaslit” and “betrayed”.
Four shadow ministers on resignation watch 👀
A BBC insider highlighted the issue of giving a platform to the potentially problematic leaders of countries which can compete in the contest, including Israel and Middle Eastern nations. A second source said ‘tricky and delicate’ negotiations are taking place.
YouGov polling for
@thetimes
finds almost half of those who voted Conservative at the last election want the party’s MPs to oust Truss. Sixty-two per cent say grassroots members made the wrong choice in the vote for leader.
ME and my girl: myalgic encephalomyelitis took the life of my daughter Maeve.
@sajidjavid
's radical new approach is a huge step forward but the bitterest of bittersweet moments
Liz Truss’s flagship trade deal with India is on the “verge of collapse” after Indian ministers reacted furiously to comments by Suella Braverman criticising migrants from their country, reveals
@matt_dathan
Around “20 to 30” former ministers and senior backbenchers are attempting to find a way for a “council of elders” to tell Truss to quit. “Conversations are stepping up,” says one former minister.
Paris Charles de Gaulle has overtaken Heathrow as Europe’s largest airport for the first time ever. Amsterdam and Frankfurt not far behind. Industry leaders have spent months warning that a lack of action on airport testing threatens the UK’s status as an aviation world leader.
Important project by
@SusieCoen
exposing lethal flaws in the smart motorway programme - including failings so bad staff said ‘you’re all going to die … start praying to your God’.
@DailyMailUK
Powerful splash tomorrow... after a 20-year occupation that saw 457 British lives lost and £22billion spent, Taliban insurgents topple Afghan forces in days. Now families of British soldiers who died fighting ask: what the hell did they die for?
@DailyMailUK
Denmark does fantastic newsrooms. On the left is the hygge-inspired office of
@politiken
, on the right, the glass and steel HQ of state broadcaster DR. By contrast, Northcliffe House had ceiling maggots that once rained on the newsdesk…
Some news🚨After two years as the Mail’s West Country/South Wales reporter, I’m off to London in a month to work from HQ. I’ve enjoyed every day covering this brilliant, bonkers patch with my very talented friends and colleagues. I may even miss the endless animal factfiles. 🗞
Exclusive: I flew into Heathrow yesterday from Lisbon to witness the chaos and confusion of the Government’s 14-quarantine rule for arriving passengers. My report in
@DailyMailUK
today:
@EalingCouncil
so much chaos being caused by your ‘low traffic neighbourhood’ idea. There was never a problem with these roads before. Now they are clogged with cars reversing and trying to work out how on earth to get where they need to be. Totally unnecessary.
@HowardCCox
Kwasi had no idea it was coming … 16 minutes later he was sitting in his ministerial car on the way back to London when
@thetimes
broke the news that he was about to be sacked.
You’ll read every word of this read by
@Steven_Swinford
🔥
British Gas has been banned from force-fitting prepayment meters to protect its vulnerable customers, and all other major energy companies have agreed to suspend the practice after
@thetimes
investigation by
@pmorganbentley
A “gang” of consultant neurosurgeons suppressed warnings about patient safety years before police were called in to investigate 40 patient deaths, a whistleblower has claimed.
Great scoop
@TomWitherow
on
@thetimes
this evening.
Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse.
Four women, including one who was just 16, make allegations after an investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.
Exclusive: Truss has significantly extended her lead over Sunak to 34 points in the Tory leadership race, according to a YouGov poll for
@thetimes
and
@TimesRadio
- and 9 in 10 members have made up their minds ahead of ballot papers going out this week.
So pleased
@thetimes
has been shortlisted for website of the year at the Press Awards. The Times is undergoing its biggest digital transformation in a decade, including an entirely digital-first newsdesk. The result means we are growing our subscriber base faster than ever.
Tomorrow’s
@DailyMailUK
, much of it written by reporters working remotely under great pressure. Please support newspapers at this time. Self-isolators can read the edition every day through the
@mailplus
app, or they can get the paper delivered 🗞
On
@thetimes
website today, how selfless and kind-hearted residents of Diss in Norfolk have clubbed together to offer more than a dozen rooms to Ukrainian refugees, as well as transport and free childcare.
Lovely surprise to get shortlisted for Travel Journalist of the Year at
@EditorsUK
#PressAwards
, alongside Mail travel boss
@palmertours
. Hats off to all other nominees too 🎉
Shortlists announced for the Society of Editors'
#PressAwards
. Celebrating the best of UK national journalism in 2020, winners will be revealed at a celebratory virtual awards ceremony on Wednesday 31 March!
Is this Britain’s worst council?
Lambeth had racked up debts of £1bn and is accused of pursuing an ideological war on cars at the expense of the basic functions of local government, reports
@andrewellson
.
Ahmad Nawaz was 14 when he was shot in the arm by a Taliban gunman in a terror attack that killed his younger brother — now he’s been voted president of Oxford Union
Today the
@DailyMailUK
has flown in £1million of PPE to help frontline hospital staff.
#MailForceOne
- a chartered 787 Dreamliner - touched down at a deserted Heathrow earlier this evening after an 11 hour flight from Shanghai.
Brilliant effort from my colleagues.
🔺Exclusive
The police investigation into
@AngelaRayner
is examining multiple allegations not limited to potential electoral law offences,
@Fhamiltontimes
reveals on
@thetimes
tonight.
Five years with the Daily Mail today, which seems an appropriate time to announce that I am taking over as the paper’s Transport Correspondent from mid-September ✈️🗞
Back where it all began 👀 Spent too many late nights in this place as co-editor in 2012/13. Ruffled many a feather in that year and got a handful of stories picked up by nationals, which felt unbelievably thrilling at the time. great to see
@Exepose
still in print.
EXC 🚨
@DailyMailUK
gets first look at
@HeathrowAirport
’s new Covid-19 testing hall.
The facility is ready to begin swabbing thousands of arrivals - but can’t be used until ministers endorse airport tests.
EXC. Excluding the pandemic, excess deaths are worst since 1951. Covid accounts for only a minority of recent excess deaths, adding to ‘compelling’ evidence that NHS delays and untreated health problems are killing hundreds every week. By
@Smyth_Chris
,
@katlay
and data team.
EXC. MPs demand ban on cash rebates for gamblers as three more betting giants admit giving cash to entice customers in wake of Daily Mail investigation.
#StopTheGamblingPredators
#Gambling
Today's Daily Mail was the first issue published without a single journalist in its offices in the paper's 124-year history. All meetings held digitally. Editor Geordie Greig said it was an "extraordinary moment" and an "amazing feat" during "unprecedented times".