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.
The prime minister and his chief medical officer gave rather mixed messages within hours of each other over whether the UK is likely to face another wave of coronavirus.
This is a classic case of ‘bootleggers and baptists’: two apparently opposing groups agitating for the same cause.
Updated guidance from the British government advised that pubs, restaurants, and bars use the NHS’s COVID Pass app to screen customers, in another flip-flop from Boris Johnson on passports for pints.
Once you have established a precedent for forcing people to take an injection as a condition of their employment, where do you stop?
Britons who commit “online racism” will be barred from attending football matches Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday.
UK lawmakers voted to confirm a foreign aid cut of £4bn, described as a temporary reduction while the country recovered from corona spending.
Privacy campaigners have condemned as the makings of a “checkpoint society” calls by Prime Minister Boris Johnson for large venues to adopt entry by vaccine passport only “as a matter of responsibility”.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that the UK could be back under “some form of lockdown” after children start going back to school in the autumn, after the prime minister announced the end of restrictions on July 19th.
All remaining lockdown restrictions in England will be lifted in a week, PM Boris Johnson confirmed Monday.
The British public will be “expected” to work from home and continue wearing masks in public spaces, Boris Johnson is set to pronounce.
The PM is set to confirm Monday that all remaining lockdown restrictions in England will be lifted in a week’s time.
Britain’s Foreign Office has denied reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally intervened to block President Joe Biden from tapping former president Barack Obama to serve as America’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is pushing a short pro-vaccine music video featuring a lesbian kiss on social media in order to encourage young people to get inoculated, under the hashtag #getyourshot.
Boris Johnson’s government is reportedly looking to mandate vaccine passports for pubs, restaurants, and clubs by the autumn.
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 European Union has increased its estimates for the so-called Brexit “divorce bill” to almost £41 billion, as Britain and Europe clash over fishing and Northern Ireland.
Boris Johnson and General Carter are among those who have voiced concerns about the legacy of 20 years of war in Afghanistan.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and wife of the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, has said she “can’t wait to get rid of” masks.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was caught maskless in a car with other passengers despite claiming earlier this week that it was “common sense” and “courtesy” to wear a mask in a confined space with others.
The prospect that Britons may have to produce paperwork to prove their coronavirus status to enter public places has reared its head again.
Boris Johnson said that if lockdown didn’t end soon, it probably couldn’t at all, as he launched his “five-point plan for living with Covid”.
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.
A return to normal after the end of restrictions appears unlikely after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that some “extra precautions” will be needed.
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.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that LGBT equality is a “key economic asset” of the United Kingdom at a Pride Month celebration.
The British authorities are planning to offer a third round of coronavirus vaccine doses to over-50s alongside flu shots from September, claiming that “we will need to ensure protection against flu as well as maintaining protection against Covid-19” as winter descends.
Nissan said it will build its next generation all-electric vehicles at the company´s plant in Sunderland, creating more than 6,200 jobs.
Pressure is mounting on Boris Johnson’s government to take action against the Chinese dictatorship after a year of inaction on Hong Kong.
Javid gave us a big clue during his first floor speech as Health Secretary, when he just couldn’t resist wheeling out ‘Build Back Better.’
The British government has implemented a new exemption for “senior executives” to ignore coronavirus quarantines.
This is bad news, obviously, for Hancock’s wife and children. But it’s great news for everyone else…
Boris Johnson will not allow a second referendum for Scottish independence before the 2024 elections, Cabinet Minister Michael Gove said.
Russian government spox said if warnings about entering disputed waters are ignored their weapons will be “right on target” in future.
Boris Johnson’s government has reportedly put the idea of using vaccine passports in pubs back on the table if cases spike later this year.
Boris Johnson has suggested lockdown restrictions will be back by the winter, despite promising the end of lockdowns would be “irreversible”.
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?
The meeting of the G7 nations proved that Boris Johnson is closer to a Green Party politician than an actual Conservative, said Nigel Farage.
A senior Cabinet minister has said the government “doesn’t have the right to take charge of people’s lives, purely to prevent them seeing the doctor”, as the prime minister is reportedly battling rising discontent amongst MPs over the delay to ending coronavirus restrictions.
Boris Johnson has reportedly backed a move to force healthcare and care home workers to take coronavirus vaccines, despite legal concerns.
