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Boris Johnson is furious with the Prime Minister and believes he's been stitched up.

Analysis: Inside Tory civil war as Boris Johnson strengthens Rishi Sunak's hand

Boris Johnson is at the centre of a furious spat within the Conservative party.

Boris Johnson drops lawyers as Cabinet Office threatened with legal action

The arrogance of power may have affected both Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson (Picture: Duncan McGlynn/Getty Images)

SNP and Tories may both discover the price of political arrogance is high

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has once again been accused of breaking the ministerial code.

Tory MPs claim Braverman speeding leak 'undermines democracy' amid SNP fury

Margaret Ferrier who is the Independent MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West. Ms Ferrier should be suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days for breaching Covid-19 rules, the Committee on Standards has recommended.

Analysis: Key by-election moves one step closer as Margaret Ferrier loses appeal

Scottish secretary Alister Jack. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Jack rejects any suggestion UK Government could pay out DRS compensation

MPs have urged Boris Johnson to pay his own Partygate legal fees

Boris Johnson urged to pay Partygate fees as taxpayers face £245k bill

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has hinted that he might support a Labour government without the promise of a second independence referendum (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Politicians of all parties are as bad as each other

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack says he will stand down at the next election

With the SNP in trouble, many independence supporters may stay at home at the next general election (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

SNP needs to stand on cross-party independence ticket or many MPs are doomed

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is struggling to ensure party discipline.

Analysis: Rishi Sunak in Japan as MPs jostle for attention

Defence secretary Ben Wallace leaves the Cabinet Office in Whitehall. Picture: PA

Ben Wallace mocks SNP MP for saying there is no 'armoured' warship in Scotland

Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries are expected to attend (Pics: Leon Neal & Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

High-profile Tory MPs at conference to restore party’s grassroots democracy

Climate protesters gathered outside Norwegian oil giant Equinor’s London offices to protest

Rishi Sunak hints at go-ahead for controversial Rosebank oil field

Pub giant JD Wetherspoon runs more than 800 pubs across the UK and Ireland, including Dunfermline’s Guildhall & Linen Exchange. Picture: Scott Reid

JD Wetherspoon on course for record year but Tim Martin hits out at politicians

King Charles seems to have a healthy disregard for formality (Picture: Yui Mok/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth would be proud of the start her son has made as monarch

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves the Conservative Party headquarters in central London, after the party suffered council losses in the local elections.

Coronation cannot distract from Conservative election nightmare - Brian Monteith

SNP MP Joanna Cherry won't be appearing at The Stand during Edinburgh Festival Fringe after staff objected (Picture: Kate Chandler)

Joanna Cherry's Fringe show: Patter so bad you couldn’t pay people to be there

Downing Street tried to avoid holding a huddle with media at Scottish Tory conference.

SNP in spotlight, but transparency in politics remains a cross-party issue

Douglas Ross speaking on stage on the second day of the Scottish Conservative party conference at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.

Scots Tory leader Douglas Ross received 'credible' death threat

Meghan Gallacher

Scots are 'savvy' about tactical voting to oust SNP, says Scottish Tory deputy

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has caused uproar within Tory ranks over his suggestion people should vote for other parties if they are better placed to oust the SNP (Picture: Lesley Martin/PA)

Tactical voting risks distorting the 'will of the people' – Scotsman comment

Culture Secretary Lucy Fraze confirmed that checks to "better protect even those unable to afford small losses" and maximum stakes for online slot machines are among plans contained in the Government's gambling White Paper.

Gambling firms to face new levy as government under fire for delay

A reader's train journey to Glasgow Central station was marred by unchecked anti-social behaviour

Readers' letters: We’ll never return to the age of the train like this

Migrants are escorted ashore from the UK Border Force vessel 'BF Ranger' in Dover earlier this year after having been picked up at sea while attempting to cross the English Channel.

MPs urged to reject bill which will ban people from claiming asylum in UK

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London.

Rishi Sunak makes motor home quip amid investigation into SNP’s finances

Rishi Sunak could be forced to apologise to the House of Commons is he is found to have breached the MP’s code of conduct (image: Getty Images)

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Rishi Sunak is under investigation by Parliament’s standards watchdog over a possible failure to declare an interest.

Rishi Sunak under investigation by standards watchdog over interest declaration

The group say they identified a “raft” of policy changes Mr Humza must consider.

MPs and MSPs urge new First Minister to address major issues facing north-east

Sir Keir Starmer is under fire for Labour attack advert over Rishi Sunak's record on crime.

Labour attack ads upset own MPs and misplace blame for failures of justice

The UK and Scottish Parliaments can learn lessons from how they operate (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Westminster and Holyrood need to end the macho, partisan nonsense – Ian Dunt

The Conservatives have suspended MP Scott Benton pending an investigation into undercover footage of him offering to lobby ministers on behalf of gambling investors in exchange for money.

Scott Benton has Tory whip suspended after offering to lobby for gambling firm

Outgoing New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern gives a speech in parliament in Wellington on April 5, 2023. - Ardern bowed out of parliament on April 5, making an impassioned plea during her tearful final speech to "please take the politics out of climate change". (Photo by Mark Coote / AFP) (Photo by MARK COOTE/AFP via Getty Images)

Jacinda Ardern delivers an emotional farewell to New Zealand parliament

Former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon with husband Peter Murrell as they cast their votes in the 2019 General Election at Broomhouse Park Community Hall in Glasgow. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Senior SNP staff interviewed 'multiple times' as part of probe into finances

Boris Johnson broke his own Covid lockdown rules, then lied about it (Picture: Alberto Pezzali/pool/Getty Images)

Covid lawbreakers Ferrier and Johnson should both face recall elections

Changes to the state pension age are common

Date of UK state pension age rise will not be brought forward

New First Minister Humza Yousaf poses with his wife, Nadia El-Nakla, step-daughter Maya, left, and daughter Amal at Bute House (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Yousaf's 'New SNP' faction won but his hubris will see it all end in tears

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made stopping boats crossing the channel one of his five pledges.

Analysis: Why Rishi Sunak's push to 'stop the boats' is not convincing voters

Sir Graham Brady was approached by Led by Donkeys

Sir Graham Brady asks fake Korean firm for £60k in new Led by Donkeys video

Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, leaves BBC Broadcasting House after his appearance on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Michael Gove says he believes Boris Johnson told truth on 'Partygate'

Nicola Sturgeon at a launch ceremony for the MV Glen Sannox in 2017 (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Brian Wilson: Naming Hull 802 the ‘MV Nicola Sturgeon’ would be fitting tribute

Like former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, Nicola Sturgeon kept the SNP's demons at bay with her reputation and managerial style (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

SNP can learn from Tories about recovering from an 'utter shambles'

Boris Johnson takes the oath ahead of his evidence to the Commons' Privileges Committee (Picture: House of Commons/UK Parliament)

Johnson’s mental gymnastics over Partygate are not credible – Scotsman comment

Boris Johnson lost support among Tory MPs after his appearance.

Analysis: Boris Johnson makes a bad situation worse and his supporters know it

Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson has revealed he will be paid £100,000 a year for hosting a show on GB News.

Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson to earn £100,000 for presenting GB News show

Boris Johnson being grilled by the committee

Boris Johnson says 'hand on heart I didn't lie' over partygate

MPs have voted in favour of regulations to implement the Stormont brake section of the Windsor Framework by 515 to 29, majority 486.

MPs back Rishi Sunak's new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland

Boris Johnson will give evidence this week on whether he misled parliament during the Partygate scandal

Watch live as Boris Johnson faces MPs at Privileges Committee

The Commons Privileges Committee is set to hear from Boris Johnson this week amid claims he lied to Parliament over the partygate scandal.

When is Boris Johnson giving evidence? How to watch Privileges Committee

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is braced for a possible Tory backbench rebellion as MPs vote on a key plank of his new deal with Brussels on post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.

Boris Johnson and Liz Truss to vote against Sunak’s Brexit deal

The then prime minister Boris Johnson (right) at a leaving gathering in the vestibule of the Press Office of 10 Downing Street, London,.

Five key questions as Boris Johnson prepares to face Privileges Committee

Boris Johnson conceded in his evidence to the Privileges Committee that his statements to Parliament “did not turn out to be correct”, but insisted he corrected the record at “the earliest opportunity”.

Boris Johnson Partygate defence published - How to read dossier

Protesters gathered outside the boarded-up cinema on Sunday to call for the Filmhouse to be saved and not sold for a pub. Picture: Annabelle Gauntlett.

Edinburgh Filmhouse: SNP demands building reopens as art house cinema

A letter from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) to the information commissioner argues TikTok could be in breach of UK law. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)

MPs believe TikTok breaches UK law - could be banned

Martin Lewis reacts to Jeremy Hunt’s budget after Chancellor name checks him and ‘calls speaker old’

Budget 2023: Martin Lewis gives his verdict

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament. Picture: Jordan Pettitt/PA

PMQs: Sunak probed on why he didn't stand up to 'snowflake' MPs over Lineker row

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Kinloch Castle, the Grade A Listed Building on the Isle of Rum, which the Scottish Government has been unable to sell and lies in a state of slow decay. PIC: NatureScot.

Castle at the heart of island's future as millionaire speaks out on failed sale

Capital Theatres has released a flythrough digital animation giving an artist’s impression of the redevelopment of the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh

Succession star Brian Cox voices video flythrough of King's Theatre revamp

Charities say more affordable homes need to be built to help manage Scotland's housing crisis.

Over 300,000 people on social housing waiting lists in Scotland