Boris Johnson news latest: Live updates as economy to ‘get worse’

A cross-party group of MSPs has referred to as on Nicola Sturgeon’s deputy to research whether or not Scotland’s first minister didn’t disclose information concerning allegations of sexual misconduct in opposition to her predecessor Alex Salmond.

Mr Salmond claimed Ms Sturgeon broke the ministerial code by deceptive parliament over when she realized of the sexual harassment claims in opposition to him.

4 members of the committee inspecting the Scottish authorities’s dealing with of the claims wrote to John Swinney, the deputy first minister, saying Mr Salmond’s declare would imply Ms Sturgeon misled parliament on a number of ocassions if proved true.

When challenged over her account of occasions at a press briefing on Monday, Ms Sturgeon mentioned: “I don’t take into account I misled Parliament however in fact that’s for others to evaluate.”

Kids’s minister Vicky Ford has promised to research after photographs of scant free college meal parcels have been shared on-line.

Questions had been raised over the funding of the shceme after Twitter person Roadside Mum shared an image of a package deal containing barely sufficient meals for a couple of days lunch which was supposed to supply meals for 10 days rather than a £30 voucher. The person estimated the meals, supplied by personal firm Chartwells, price round £5.

Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer, alongside along with his deputy Angela Rayner, referred to as on the federal government to elucidate the place the cash supposed for the scheme was going.

Dominic Raab is ready to announce new measures focusing on imports linked to the pressured labour of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xianjiang province.

Measures anticipated to be unveiled by the overseas secretary when he seems within the Commons later right now embody increasing the Fashionable Slavery Act, new standards obliging corporations to make sure their provide chain is clear of pressured labour and heavier fines for these that don’t comply.

Ministers are additionally reportedly trying to impose more durable export controls on items and expertise that would help repression in China.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned the UK economic system will undergo additional but regardless of the hope provided by the arrival of coronavirus vaccines.  

Addressing MPs on the federal government’s newest spherical of help measures on Monday, Mr Sunak mentioned: “Even with the numerous financial help we have supplied, over 800,000 folks have misplaced their job since February. And whereas the brand new nationwide restrictions are crucial to regulate the unfold of the virus, they may have an additional vital financial impression.

“We must always count on the economic system to worsen earlier than it will get higher.”

“Sadly, now we have not and will be unable to avoid wasting each job and each enterprise,” the chancellor mentioned as he defended the federal government’s document on monetary help all through the pandemic.