A senior Army officer who claimed £50,000 in private school fees ‘deliberately manipulated the numbers’ about how much time his wife spent at their home, a court martial heard today. Maj Gen Nick Welch, 57, is accused of abusing Continuity of Education
Boris Johnson appears to have outmanoeuvred Brussels and senior EU figures, including Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, amid a tense clash between the two sides. Mr Johnson has recruited key member states as allies inside the EU to push back against the