Portrait of the Week: pornography, ‘sulky livers’ and abortion

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Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced £300 million more in military aid for Ukraine. Speaking by video to the Ukrainian parliament, he said: ‘This is Ukraine’s finest hour, that will be remembered and recounted for generations to come.’ BP lost $24.4 billion by withdrawing from its shareholding in the Russian energy giant Rosneft, but would have otherwise made a profit of $6.2 billion in the first quarter of this year. Only 27,100 refugees from Ukraine had arrived in Britain by 27 April, the latest figures available, though 86,100 visas had been issued. At least 254 non-Ukrainian migrants were brought ashore from small craft in the Channel on 1 May, when the weather had improved after 11 days, and 293 the next day; more than 7,000 had arrived in 2022.

Neil Parish, the Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton, had the whip removed after two female Conservative MPs said they had seen him looking at pornography on his mobile phone in the Commons chamber. He explained he had originally been searching for Dominator farm machinery. He then applied for the stewardship of the Manor of Northstead, which would disqualify him from remaining an MP. Imran Ahmad Khan, the former Conservative MP found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy, was granted the stewardship of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham, which had the same effect. Boris Becker, thrice Wimbledon champion, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to two and a half years’ imprisonment for concealing assets of £2.5 million from his creditors after he was declared bankrupt in 2017. Alexanda Amon Kotey, 38, originally from Paddington, London, a member of the Islamic State terror cell known as ‘the Beatles’ was given eight life sentences by a Virginia court for his role in the murder of American hostages in Syria.