Week in the UK. Good or bad

On Monday, the Partygate theme continued with further analysis of the video. And ‘dancing woman’ revealed to be aide to a Tory shortlisted to become his party’s London mayoral candidate, the Standard can reveal. Malin Bogue is seen dancing in a red dress with Jack Smith, who works in Parliament for Tory minister Graham Stuart. At the time Ms Bogue reportedly worked for Shaun Bailey’s mayoral campaign, which ended in defeat to Sadiq Khan in 2021, as did Ben Mallet, who is also seen in the video that was obtained by the Sunday Mirror. Both Mr Mallet, who was awarded an OBE in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, and Ms Bogue work for Moz Hossain KC, the barrister bidding to secure the Tory nomination to run against Mr Khan in next May’s City Hall elections. The Standard has learned that Ms Bogue accompanied Mr Hossain to the first Tory mayoral hustings, at the Queen Elizabeth conference centre last Friday night, including to the invite-only pre-event drinks.   " This ...

On Sunday, Lord Heseltine, the former deputy prime minister under John Major has called for Britain to “recreate our position at the centre of Europe” after the failure of Brexit. The Tory grandee accused political leaders of hiding from the damage being caused by the UK leaving the EU and said the time has come “for the British people to be told the truth”.  Writing for The Independent , Lord Heseltine laid bare the failings of Brexit, from a shortage of skilled workers holding back economic growth to trade deals with Australia and New Zealand which will be “so damaging for farmers”.  This statement was met with disbelieve by users. the majority liked an idea, though. "Do they honestly think Britain will just be able to get back it’s former standing like “my bad guys, did a silly, just going to sit back in my special place seat and we will act as if the last few years didn’t happen, deal?” Nah IF we are allowed to join once again it’ll be *bottom rung of the ladder an...