Tag Archives: Lizz Truss

Parliament returns from its summer recess with a new Prime Minister and senior cabinet, but gambling remains in the dark with regards to its regulatory future, in which an urgent settlement is required on dragged-out affairs for all industry stakeholders. It is two months since publication of my last ‘Licensing Expert’ article, ‘Change will come – eventually’, focusing on the …

Following a last round of ministerial votes submitted to the 1922 Committee, the Conservative Party has summoned its final two tributes for Party Leadership – with the winner to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s next Prime Minister.  Triggered on 8 July, a leadership race that saw ten MPs submit their bids to enter the Tory leadership coliseum has seen contenders …

PM Boris Johnson may have paid a £50 fixed penalty notice for attending an ‘impromptu birthday party’ at 10 Downing Street – yet Partygate allegations continue to dog his leadership of the Conservative Party. Mocked by opposition, Johnson continues to deny that he misled the public and fellow ministers, unaware of multiple parties held at Number 10 as UK households …

Just as Boris Johnson thought that he had escaped the ‘Partygate’ fiasco, Smarkets reports that the likelihood of the PM leaving Number-10 this month has risen to 43% according to morning odds of 2.13 priced on the betting exchange. A flurry of bets made against the PMs future, follows yesterday’s shock news that four of Johnson’s senior aides had resigned, …

Boris Johnson’s premiership is ‘on the ropes’ as the PM faces mounting pressure from his party, the media and public to confess that he broke COVID national lockdown rules by attending a ‘bring your own booze’ party at Number 10 last May.  Monitoring Down Street developments, Smarkets Politics cites that PM Johnson has reached his shortest price of 1.70 (58% …