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The minister for London, Paul Scully, has failed to make the shortlist to be the Conservative candidate to run for the city's mayor.Scully had previously been seen as a possible frontrunner for next year's electoral race against the Labour incumbent, Sadiq Khan.The shadow health minister, Wes Streeting, said the Tories had avoided selecting Scully the only MP on the longlist because Rishi Sunak's administration was toxic to voters.

In an interview with the Evening Standard, he described Labour mayor Sadiq Khan as a doom-meister who talked London down, and said he wanted to bring energy and optimism to his bid to become mayor.Mr Korski, 46, said the Ulez extension has to be junked and also promised a review of cycle superhighways and potentially requiring a confirmatory vote of residents before new low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) schemes are made permanent.

Labour and Conservative former ministers along with two prominent Tory backbenchers are among the politicians recognised in the King's Birthday Honours for public service.Sir Ben Bradshaw, who served in both Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's governments and was only the second MP to be openly gay when elected in 1997, is receiving a knighthood.

1686294000 The mystery began when the McCanns affluent doctors Kate and Gerry, their three-year-old daughter Madeleine and her two-year-old twin siblings joined a group of seven family friends and their five children on holiday at the Ocean Club in the village of Praia da Luz on the southwestern tip of Portugal on 28 April 2007.

1686294000 The mystery began when the McCanns affluent doctors Kate and Gerry, their three-year-old daughter Madeleine and her two-year-old twin siblings joined a group of seven family friends and their five children on holiday at the Ocean Club in the village of Praia da Luz on the southwestern tip of Portugal on 28 April 2007.

1686294000 The mystery began when the McCanns affluent doctors Kate and Gerry, their three-year-old daughter Madeleine and her two-year-old twin siblings joined a group of seven family friends and their five children on holiday at the Ocean Club in the village of Praia da Luz on the southwestern tip of Portugal on 28 April 2007.

The spectacle of the shipwrecked Conservative party is a wonder to behold.Boris Johnson the destroyer will carry on sinking the remains of the galleon he once captained out of sheer revenge.Cabals of every rightwing complexion include the old bastards of yesteryear John Redwood still at it and new red-wallers seeing their brief careers vanish before their eyes.

1686304800 Forensics expert Dan Matthews has warned traditional evidence might be difficult to find now 16 years have passed since Madeleine's disappearance.The Forensic Science Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln suggested investigators would be searching the remote reservoir for things that could've stood the test of time and not been destroyed by its passage, such as clothing fragments, plastic items or jewellry.

David Cameron will become the first politician to give evidence under oath at the UK Covid-19 public inquiry next week when the former prime minister is cross-examined on Monday, the inquiry has announced.The former chancellor George Osborne will also give evidence on Tuesday and Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, and Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, will become the first serving cabinet ministers to enter the witness box when they are sworn in on Wednesday as the inquiry steps up its investigation into the UK's preparedness for the pandemic that claimed at least 226,977 lives in the country.

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's longest serving first minister, resigned earlier this year in a move that confounded many political observers at the time.On Sunday, she was arrested by police investigating allegations of financial misconduct.Sturgeon, who led the Scottish National party to electoral domination at Holyrood the home of the Scottish parliament was questioned by detectives as a suspect but was later released without charge, pending further inquiries, after voluntarily going to a police station.

Several dozen allies of former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson received honors from King Charles III on Friday, a list that drew cries of cronyism from opponents of the ousted leader.Resignation honors, bestowed by the monarch but chosen by the government, are an established but contentious way for departing leaders to reward loyal lieutenants.

The Conservative Party is currently in the process of selecting a candidate to take on Mr Khan in 2024 and has announced a shortlist of three names: Susan Hall, Mozammel Hossain, and Daniel Korski.The Green Party has also named a candidate but the Liberal Democrats are still deciding.The election will be held on May 2, simultaneously with elections to the London Assembly and local elections.

Sixteen years after Madeleine McCann vanished from the Algarve holiday apartment where she was sleeping next to her infant twin siblings, police have launched a major new search for evidence.After laying dormant for several years since David Cameron kickstarted an ultimately fruitless Metropolitan Police inquiry in 2011, the case of the missing three-year-old was revived once more in 2020 when German prosecutors revealed a new suspect.

Sixteen years after Madeleine McCann vanished from the Algarve holiday apartment where she was sleeping next to her infant twin siblings, police have launched a major new search for evidence.After laying dormant for several years since David Cameron kickstarted an ultimately fruitless Metropolitan Police inquiry in 2011, the case of the missing three-year-old was revived once more in 2020 when German prosecutors revealed a new suspect.

Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has stood down as MP for Mid Bedfordshire, triggering a by-election.Her resignation comes after months-long speculation that Ms Dorries, who has been an MP since 2005, was to be handed a peerage in Boris Johnson's resignation honours list although recent reporting suggested the Government cut her from the list at the 11th hour to swerve an early election battle in her seat.

Government minister Paul Scully has failed to make it on to the Conservative shortlist to be the party candidate to take on Sadiq Khan in next year's London mayoral race.The minister for London announced his candidacy last month and was seen as a frontrunner for the Tory nomination.Mr Scully said he was disappointed by the decision but praised the incredible support his short-lived campaign had received.

T he race to become the Tory mayoral candidate for London took a shock turn on Sunday afternoon when the apparent frontrunner failed to make it onto the party's shortlist.Paul Scully, the Minister for London and MP for Sutton and Cheam, had been widely thought to be the most likely to be chosen to challenge Labour mayor Sadiq Khan in next May's City Hall elections.