John Major says Boris Johnson should resign if he has broken the law– UK politics live
Labour has demanded a review of how fraud is tackled in the UK, amid concerns over a drop in the number of specialist prosecutors, PA Media reports. PA says: New figures show specialist fraud staff at the Crown Prosecution Service decreased from 224 at the end of 2015 to 167 at the end of 2021, according to shadow solicitor general Andy Slaughter.
But Alex Chalk, the solicitor general, insisted the CPS is “taking the fight to fraudsters” and also highlighted work done elsewhere by the government to recover taxpayers’ cash. Conservative peer Lord Agnew of Oulton resigned last month from his ministerial posts over what he described as the “schoolboy” handling of fraudulent Covid-19 business loans.
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