Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 29 April 2021

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1. No. 10 anxious over ‘paper trail’

Downing Street is concerned that the involvement of a Tory donor in funding Boris Johnson’s flat redecoration has left a “damaging paper trail” at Conservative Party headquarters, The Times reports. The Electoral Commission yesterday launched an inquiry into the spending that has the potential to “imperil Johnson’s premiership”, The Guardian says. Labour has called on the PM to appoint a fully independent figure to oversee ministers’ conduct, including his own.

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