
John McAndrew
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John McAndrew
@johnlucius
Director of Live & Daily News @bbcnews



New emails confirm Boris Johnson's rise was engineered by a support team any leader would envy: Steve Bannon, Jeffrey Epstein, and Nigel Farage. Bannon texted Epstein directly: "We are overthrowing May right now." Johnson called this a "conspiracy theory." The conspiracy theory was just a group chat. And while Bannon apparently didn't make the final guest list for Johnson's gratitude round, the Prime Minister found room for his other controversial patron: Evgeny Lebedev—the Russian-born newspaper owner whose father was a KGB officer, whom MI5 personally briefed Johnson against making a Lord, and who now sits in Parliament as Baron Lebedev of Siberia . Because if you're going to ignore security advice, why stop at one unelected foreign influencer? bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/ban…






"I've actually had voters coming up to me today saying 'Please tell the Prime Minister not to go'." Labour MP Sam Rushworth gives a vote of confidence in the leadership of Keir Starmer, whom he describes as an "honourable and decent person". #Newsnight

#Newsnight 1030pm @BBCTwo @BBCNews • Suella Braverman/Andy Burnham • Minneapolis: lawyer for relatives of Renee Good - shot & killed by ICE - tells Newsnight exclusively, the family is retraumatised after killing of Alex Pretti With @HarrietHarman @Jacob_Rees_Mogg












