LONDON (AP) – Restaurants, ride-hailing apps, and food delivery services are backing Britain’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, offering discounts and even free slices of pizza to persuade young people to roll up their sleeves and get the shot.
Britain’s Home Office has been block-booking hotels along England’s south coast to host migrant youths as the country’s long-running Channel crisis continues to worsen, despite promises to end the practice.
Reform UK leader Richard Tice has criticised as “blackmail and coercion” the government proposal of vaccine passports.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s climate change spokeswoman and former press secretary has caused her boss some embarrassment by suggesting people “join the Green Party”.
Mass migration has driven Britain’s foreign-born population to nine million and the ethnic minority population to 13 million in just 20 years, according to new estimates from Migration Watch UK.
Britain’s Health Secretary Sajid Javid has apologised for saying that it is time to “learn to live with, rather than cower from” the coronavirus, in a failed attempt to appease pro-lockdown critics.
Calais MP Pierre-Henri Dumont has said the tens of millions of pounds the British government is sending to France to stop the Channel migrant crisis is “going to waste” because the French do not and, he claims, cannot stop the boats.
Boris Johnson’s government is instructing councils and other bodies in receipt of so-called “European” coronavirus recovery funding to cover all relevant signs and so on with the EU flag, despite Brexit.
People in the United Kingdom who have not been “fully vaccinated” are reportedly set to be prohibited from attending Premier League football matches.
Thousands of Britons gathered in London to protest against Prime Minister Boris Johnson plan to mandate vaccine passports for daily life.
Tory lockdown sceptics are threatening to boycott October’s Conservative Party Conference if vaccination passports become a legal requirement for entry under government guidelines.
Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi confirmed that the government will pursue vaccine passports as a condition of entry to nightclubs and is exploring an annual booster strategy against the Chinese coronavirus.
Lord Frost, Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator and current head of Task Force Europe, has admitted that the Northern Ireland protocol of the EU deal is damaging businesses, consumers, and community relations in Ulster.
Today is ‘Freedom Day’ in Britain, with many restrictions on personal liberty lifted, at least in theory, and venues such as nightclubs allowed to reopen — but critics say the country’s liberation is largely illusory.
LONDON (AP) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been identified by the country’s test-and-trace system as a contact of a confirmed coronavirus case — but unlike thousands of his compatriots, he won’t have to stay home for 10 days.
LONDON (AP) – Britain’s health minister says he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is experiencing mild symptoms.
Britons who commit “online racism” will be barred from attending football matches Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday.
A politician from the left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) has been reported to the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland for telling the Leader of the House of Commons he will “undoubtedly rot in hell”.
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced it will no longer bother to attempt prosecuting most illegal migrants even under existing laws, as Home Secretary Priti Patel is once again claiming the Tories are poised to get tough on immigration.
The UK will look to ban the boiling of lobsters alive, however, the government has refrained from imposing similar restrictions on Halal.
Pollsters made a big song and dance about how they’d learnt lessons in the wake of their comprehensive failure to foresee Brexit. Yet even when the laser-focus of the country’s greatest political minds bears down on just one constituency, Westminster still finds Britain inscrutable.
The Boris Johnson administration’s supposedly tough new “points-based immigration system” will make it even easier for foreign students to stay in Britain as unskilled workers, Home Secretary Priti Patel has boasted.
The British government has implemented a new exemption for “senior executives” to ignore coronavirus quarantines.
Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy, it can be revealed after court reporting restrictions were lifted.
The Conservatives had been defying conventional logic, winning by-elections while in government — a rare achievement — but now they have been soundly defeated in a safe seat by a minor party, analysis suggests, on the small matter of the countryside being swallowed whole by development. Will the Tories’ big-money donors in the construction industry come to haunt them?
LONDON (AP) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a strong hint Saturday that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England this month will be delayed as a result of the spread of the delta variant first identified in India.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson told fellow world leaders that they should be “building back better” in a “more gender-neutral, perhaps more feminine way” at a G7 roundtable.
As Britain’s comedy prime minister Boris Johnson continues to make a fool of himself and his country at the G7 summit, his predecessor Theresa May has made a parliamentary intervention to show us how it should be done.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has compared himself and President Joe Biden to wartime leaders Sir Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Britain’s High Court ruled that Michael Gove acted unlawfully in awarding a contract to a company run by friends of Dominic Cummings.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government claims to have “turned the tide” against cancel culture even as a player on England’s national cricket team has been suspended for tweets sent as a teenager.
The Right Reverend Joanna Penberthy, Bishop of St Davids, has deleted a “personal” Twitter account which she used to abuse Conservatives and Brexit supporters.
A former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), better known as MI6, has said it will be hard to prove China’s virology lab in Wuhan was responsible for the coronavirus pandemic because “a lot of data has probably been destroyed or made to disappear” and said the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) appears to be “a lost cause”.
LONDON (AP) – Britain said Monday it will make it easier for Afghans who worked with British troops to settle in the UK, amid rising fears for their safety as foreign forces leave Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 56, and partner Carrie Symonds, 33, were secretly married in the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of the Precious Blood on Saturday, it has been confirmed.
Over 3,000 illegal migrants have landed on British soil after crossing the English Channel so far this year, doubling last year’s record-setting levels, as criminal gangs continue to outwit the Home Office. A report from the National Crime Agency (NCA)
First let us celebrate what was best about Dominic Cummings’s rantathon before a House of Commons committee today: he slagged off the useless Boris Johnson; he dissed the insidiously terrifying and nauseatingly influential Carrie ‘Princess Nut Nut’ Symonds; and maybe best of all, he made it clear that Health Secretary Matt Hancock is a compulsive liar who should have been sacked long ago…
Cummings revealed the dumbfoundment he felt when he discovered the government’s pandemic plans didn’t actually exist in any meaningful sense.
Faith in government in Health Secretary Matt Hancock was so low the Prime Minister was told “repeatedly” that he should be fired from his position, Cummings claimed.
LONDON (AP) – A court order naming British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as owing an unpaid debt was no longer on the books Thursday, a day after Johnson’s office called it “totally without merit.”
