Ms Leadsom, who frequently clashed with the former Speaker in the Commons, used a ministerial resignation speech to wade in on him again, despite his own retirement in December.

Priti Patel was seated next to Mr Johnson for PMQs as he voiced 'confidence' in her and said she is doing an 'outstanding job'.

Boris Johnson is chairing the emergency Cobra committee later where the UK's tactics will shift from 'containing' the killer disease to merely 'delaying' its inevitable spread.

Boris Johnson declared that the UK's tactics have shifted from 'containing' the killer disease to merely 'delaying' its inevitable spread after chairing a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee.

Mr Hunt, who since leaving the cabinet is chair of the Commons health and social care select committee, believes the Prime Minister should be doing more to encourage social distancing.

Ms Symonds said: 'I've spent the past week in bed with the main symptoms of Coronavirus. I haven't needed to be tested and, after seven days of rest, I feel stronger and I'm on the mend.'

ALEX BRUMMER writes: The Government and Chancellor Rishi Sunak (pictured) is sparing no effort as they battles to stop the coronavirus.

Nikki said that Chigvintsev is consistently a great lover, adding her theory why his prowess in the ballroom transcends to the bedroom.

The American businessman, 34, says any appearances in Britain over the coming months will not touch on whether they had an affair saying: 'I will not be the person to bring Boris Johnson down'.

The new couple packed on the PDA with at the Dolittle premiere  on Saturday, just days after his ex, Nikki Bella, announced her engagement to Dancing With The Stars partner Artem Chigvintsev.

DWTS' Val Chmerkovskiy and Jenna Johnson professed their love for each other on social media to mark their first wedding anniversary on Monday.

Former Tory Chief Whip Mark Harper (pictured) claimed sticking to the October 31 date for Britain to leave the EU would only boost Nigel Farage when it failed to materialise.

The frontrunner to become the UK's next Prime Minister will promote Liz Truss in an attempt to confront his 'women problem', allies believe. Pictured: Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.

The Labour Party risked ridicule today after it attacked Boris Johnson for being 'scruffy' despite Jeremy Corbyn's own history of being criticised over his own appearance.

The Prime Minister is said to have hired Isaac Levido as his director of politics and campaigning. He was a former deputy to Mr Crosby, who oversaw David Cameron's win four years ago.

The Conservatives could lose more than half the constituencies they need to defend against the resurgent Liberal Democrats.

The broadcaster, pictured, lambasted David Cameron over the 2016 referendum, and described Theresa May as a 'cornucopia of failure'.

Bake Off star baker Prue Leith will advise an independent review of NHS food - but her son is already a very senior government adviser.

John Bercow is regarded by many as a reforming Speaker - but his time in the famous green chair has also been blighted by controversy over expenses, bullying and Brexit.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote on a private cabinet paper that former leader, Oxford-educated David Cameron was a 'girly swot'.

David Cameron is finally preparing to unleash his potentially explosive autobiography this weekend.

David Cameron has admitted he thinks about the EU referendum every single day and says he does not support Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament.

David Cameron said Boris Johnson and Michael Gove 'left the truth at home' with claims that EU membership cost £350million a week and that Turkey would join the bloc.

The Conservative former prime minister (pictured) said Mr Johnson privately claimed there could be a 'fresh renegotiation, followed by a second referendum' - which he now says he opposes.

The ex-prime minister revealed that his former chancellor and right-hand man had urged him 'destroy their credibility' as leaders of the Leave campaign, saying they were 'killing' his leadership.

Michael Gove famously sabotaged the current UK Prime Minister's first leadership bid in 2016 by launching his own rival campaign, forcing Boris Johnson (pictured together) to pull out.

Michael Gove assured the then-PM that he would 'make one speech and that's it' after he came out in favour of Brexit, Mr Cameron (pictured in an ITV interview today) has revealed.

David Cameron (pictured in an ITV interview which aired last night) also criticised Mr Johnson's decision to prorogue Parliament, accusing him of 'sharp practice'.

Former Prime Minister David Cameron said he was left 'scratching his head' by some of the rulings that John Bercow (pictured) made as Speaker of the Commons.

David Cameron has urged Boris Johnson to forgive the 21 Remainer rebels he stripped of the Tory whip as the former PM failed to guarantee he will vote Conservative if there is a No Deal Brexit.

Tony Little (pictured), who led Eton for 13 years, said it was 'unfortunate' that the trio are all Eton alumni, and admitted 'we'd be better served as a nation' if they hadn't all gone to the same school.

HARRY COLE: Sir Lynton Crosby may have masterminded Boris Johnson's successful bids for City Hall and helped to put him in No 10, but I hear he will not be running his Election campaign.

John Bercow has launched a stinging attack on David Cameron as he accused the former prime minister of believing he is 'born to rule'.

Former prime minister David Cameron, who resigned after the UK voted for Brexit in 2016, said the Conservative majority win today was an 'extraordinary' and 'powerful' result.

Carrie Symonds, 31, was the picture of laid back style as she joined boyfriend Boris Johnson, 55, on the steps of Number 10 this morning, hours after the Tories' landslide victory.

HARRY COLE: The victorious Prime Minister hit the town on Friday night to go to a party for Tory staff at Mayfair hotel Brown's, hosted by billionaire Sir Rocco Forte.

Boris Johnson's approach to David Cameron suggests he has healed a rift with his former Eton friend which formed during the 2016 Brexit referendum.

GUY ADAMS: In June, Bercow will be paid an undisclosed sum, thought to be in the region of £10,000, to headline its annual conference in Istanbul.

Boris Johnson had hoped his predecessor and long-standing rival would be a 'big hitting' president of the crucial UN conference - known as COP26.

The UN summit, known as COP26, has become mired in controversy after David Cameron and William Hague both refused to host it in Glasgow in November.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a message to Prime Minister Boris Johnson today that he wanted to 'express my sincere support at this difficult moment for you', according to the Kremlin.

John Legend is set to make a cameo in season four of This Is Us, though the EGOT winner's wife Chrissy Teigen had no idea he had a role in the NBC series.

In a major upset, Sam Mendes and his World War I movie 1917 beat out favorites The Irishman, Joker and Marriage Story to win best motion picture drama with Mendes also winning best director.

On Thursday, the director, 53, claimed there was 'no doubt' the 30-year-old actor's performance was award-winning, but said 'it's an incredibly tough year' in the acting category at the Academy Awards.

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Brussels believes the new Prime Minister wants to use the October 17 European Council meeting, just two weeks before the UK is due to quit the bloc, to force concessions.

The plan is believed to be under consideration by Boris Johnson in order to avoid Brexit dominating the G7 summit set to be held in Biarritz, France, from August 24-26.

Boris Johnson today insisted he is 'confident' the European Union will ultimately buckle on Brexit and agree to renegotiate the terms of Britain's divorce from the bloc.

Leading allies of Angela Merkel have warned Boris Johnson deleting the backstop from the Brexit deal is 'completely impossible' as the PM flies into Berlin for crunch talks.

PETER OBORNE: From his days as a Brussels-based journalist whose motif was his ridiculing of the Eurocracy and their policies, our new Prime Minister has long been a hate figure in Europe.