Boris Johnson is to co-chair a new initiative to help countries reach net zero, backed by a former MP who quit the Tories in protest at the issuing of new oil and gas licences. The former UK prime minister was unveiled on Wednesday as the co-chairman of Better Earth, a company founded by the former […]
(Bloomberg) — Former Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson defected to Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist Reform UK, a move that heaps further pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he tries to reverse his party’s slump in the polls ahead of a general election expected in the autumn. Most Read from Bloomberg Anderson, who was suspended […]
A former deputy chairman of the British Conservative Party has defected to Reform UK, declaring: “I want my country back.” Lee Anderson was kicked out of the Tory party last month in an Islamophobia row. He announced his switch to the Nigel Farage-linked right-wing populist party at a press conference alongside party leader Richard Tice […]
The executive chairman of Iceland supermarket has given his backing to Labour, saying the party was the “right choice” for business and voters. Richard Walker, the executive chairman of the supermarket and a former Tory donor, quit the Conservative party last October in a blow to Rishi Sunak. Now Mr Walker has switched his support […]