Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Oliver Dowden has threatened Bristol University with defunding because they won’t play the national anthem at graduation ceremonies.
UK taxpayers have been billed a further £100m for Rishi Sunak’s beleaguered Rwanda deal despite no planes taking off.
The government spent the eyewatering sum in the 2023-24 financial year as the plan to deport asylum seekers to Kigali was hit by a series of legal setbacks.
Labour branded the revelation “incredible”.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror reports that some 18 Tories have submitted no confidence letters in the PM as he faces a rebellion on both wings of his party, with MPs unhappy about a draft law published by the government which Mr Sunak claimed would make the Rwanda deal work.