Boris Johnson news latest: PM ‘well’ after operation as No 10 admits ‘Carriegate’ demand

Nadine Dorries was booed outside a Tory fundraiser in London on Monday.

Members of the PCS Union had gathered outside London’s V&A Museum where a Tory fundraiser was being held.

Senior members of the Conservative party were booed by protesters as they arrived for a fundraiser in London yesterday evening.

The fundraiser held at London’s V&A Museum was meant to woo Tory donors, and also saw a brief appearance by the prime minister after his sinus operation earlier on Monday.

PCS Union members gathered outside the venue and booed attendees demanding better pay, videos shared online showed.

Prime minister Boris Johnson was well enough to make a brief appearance at a fundraiser for the Tory party on Monday after undergoing a routine sinus operation, ITV has reported.

He was taken into the party by a side entrance as questions hung in the air over the disappearing story about his wife Carrie in The Times.

The fundraiser was also attended by top members of his cabinet as they wooed Tory donors, reported the Daily Mail.

Earlier in the day, No 10 had said that Mr Johnson was “feeling well” after he was placed under general anaesthetic for a routine operation on his sinuses.

Medics are preparing to deal with significant disruption from the rail strike as the NHS reassured patients that it “remains open” for services.

Patients have been asked to plan ahead for appointments, as there is likely to be significant delays in reaching hospitals and GP surgeries.

Hospitals have made arrangements to ensure that staff be present on site, officials said, including setting up park-and-ride services and taxi-sharing facilities.

Trusts have urged patients to get in touch if they cannot attend their appointment due to the strikes.

Boris Johnson is set to call for a “sensible compromise” to shield rail passengers from country-wide travel chaos.

The prime minister is expected to argue ahead of a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that unions are “harming the very people they claim to be helping” by going ahead with the biggest outbreak of industrial action on the railways for a generation.

The move comes after last-ditch talks to resolve a bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions failed to land on a solution.

Rail unions have accused the government of “actively preventing” the resolution of a dispute which will see millions of passengers’ journeys disrupted from Tuesday in the most significant strikes to hit the network since the 1980s.

The RMT union pulled the plug on last-ditch talks with employers on Monday, blaming ministers for preventing Network Rail and the train operating companies from negotiating freely on pay, jobs and conditions.

But Grant Shapps’ Department for Transport dismissed the claim as “absolutely not true”, insisting that a £2bn shortfall in resources for the national network which the RMT attributed to government cuts was in fact the result of reduced passenger numbers following Covid.

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The government has been accused of overseeing a “total economic and environmental policy failure” on tree planting, with current rates not even halfway to hitting targets set in 2019.

Boris Johnson said the government would plant 30,000 hectares (75,000 acres) of new woodland in Britain every year by 2024. But with a year and a half to go, official figures reveal planting is still below 14,000 hectares for the year to 31 March 2022.

The Confederation of Forest Industries (Confor), which represents more than 1,500 forestry and wood businesses around the UK, said that the “woeful” rate of progress meant there was now “zero chance” of reaching the targets.