Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement that England will be placed under a second national lockdown was met with fury and derision in some quarters, with some going so far to call for his resignation.
(AFP) — Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new four-week coronavirus lockdown in England, which will join several European countries in imposing the measure for a second time, as Slovakia took a different tack and began testing its entire population.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to impose a second national lockdown in England next week, as government models predict a deadly second wave of the Chinese coronavirus in the winter.
“Significant gaps” to be bridged remain if there is to be any hope of a Brexit deal before the end of the year, Boris Johnson’s spokesman said Monday. Much work remained to be done in talks that little over a
The Conservative government has put the “final nail in the coffin” of successive pledges to drastically reduce net migration, by dropping the salary threshold for migrants settling in the UK from £35,800 to £25,600 — with a salary exemption as low as £20,480 for some roles from December 1st.
The UK is viewed as America’s closest ally right across the U.S. political divide, a poll released this week shows.
A senior UK lawmaker who was second-in-command to Theresa May has offere a tacit endorsement for Joe Biden.
Judges have ruled an illegal migrant who stabbed a man to death after he was supposed to be deported can stay in Britain, citing his “human rights”.
Negotiations between the UK and EU recommenced on Thursday less than one week after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced talks had been a failure and told the nation to prepare for a no-deal, clean-break Brexit.
Nigel Farage has said that if Boris Johnson backs a trade deal with the EU based on the withdrawal agreement which fails to deliver a full Brexit, then his Brexit Party “will be prepared to re-start the fight”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rejected calls by the EU’s negotiator to “intensify” trade talks unless Brussels compromises.
The horrors conjured up by the Remain Establishment now look mild compared to what Britain has experienced over Corona.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson should lead a “clean break Brexit” from the EU rather than try to salvage negotiations with the bloc, warning that any new treaty with Brussels “will come back to haunt us in the years ahead”.
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Trump critic, and anti-Brexit campaign “scaremonger-general” George Osborne is being lined up as the next chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), according to reports.
The rupture in the negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union has escalated, with the British telling EU negotiator Michel Barnier not to bother coming to London next week if the bloc is unwilling to budge.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made the “right decision” in telling the UK to prepare for no deal.
The EU will not enter into a mutually beneficial deal with the UK in the post Brexit and talks have therefore failed, Boris Johnson said.
Boris Johnson’s ailing, flailing, hopeless administration has been thrown a lifeline from an unlikely quarter.
French fishermen were filmed firing flares and throwing frying pans at British boats in a revival of the so-called ‘Scollop Wars’ in the English Channel, amid ongoing disputes between the two nations over post-Brexit fishing rights.
A large group of young revellers took to the streets of Liverpool on the eve of strict lockdown measures being introduced in the city, as England braces for the possibility of a second national lockdown.
The owner said: “I thought of the idiots responsible for this and said ‘F***ing bell ends!’ Then the idea came to me.”
Forty-two Conservative MPs rebelled against their government in a retrospective vote on imposing a 10 pm curfew on pubs and the hospitality industry, in the latest backbench revolt against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s coronavirus regime.
England should be placed under a two-to-three-week national lockdown to stop the spread of the China virus pronounced the leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday. In a press conference, Sir Keir said that all pubs, bars,
The UK is so desperate to sign a Brexit deal with the EU it will abandon another Brexit deadline tomorrow to allow talks to continue.
The EU’s top Brexit negotiator has rejected Johnson’s deadline, remarking of the seemingly endless rounds of deal talks “we still have time”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to empower a government minister with the ability to veto the removal of Britain’s historical statues in an effort to combat against the BLM inspired iconoclastic movement sweeping through large sections of the political left in the UK.
Police in the UK broke up a hot tub party because it contravened social distancing rules. The party-goers said they were celebrating not having coronavirus.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will have his Brexit resolve tested this week, with his October 15th crunch deadline set to result in either a deal, no deal, or another soft deadline extension.
LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in northern England are anxiously waiting to hear how much further virus restrictions will be tightened as one of the British government’s leading medical advisers warned Sunday that the country is at a crucial juncture in the second wave of the coronavirus.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage tied Britain’s post-Brexit success to the re-election of President Donald Trump, warning that should 77-year-old Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden prevail then the hopes of a British-American free trade deal would be dashed.
LONDON (AP) — Mayors representing big cities in northern England have slammed the British government’s latest wage support package for employees in businesses that may be ordered to close as part of efforts to suppress local coronavirus outbreaks.
Republican Congressman Jason Smith has written to the British government, demanding that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle be stripped of their royal titles, claiming that the couple is using their royal status to interfere in the election against President Trump.
During a press conference on Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that she is concerned that the United Kingdom’s system for approving a coronavirus vaccine “is not on a par with ours in the United States. So, if Boris
Boris Johnson may bend to EU demands that Britain accept submission to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in perpetuity in exchange for a Brexit deal, according to reports.
Britain’s Conservative government has announced it will be handing over £60 million in taxpayers’ money to police and local councils for enforcing coronavirus laws, including funds for new “marshals”.
Downing Street is to have White House-style televised press briefings for the first time, and Boris Johnson’s new press secretary is reportedly to be Westminster media veteran Allegra Stratton.
Trump expressed his gratitude to the support he received from Johnson, both men now having contracted and recovered from Coronavirus.
Britain will regain “full control” over its money and laws from January first 2021, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised.
Just when you thought Boris Johnson couldn’t get any less competent or conservative, along comes his ‘hold my beer’ masterstroke…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson could face two party rebellions on the House of Commons over his coronavirus laws, with Tory rebels threatening to lodge a protest vote against the ‘rule of six’ on Tuesday and voting against the curfew on Wednesday.
