Boris Johnson

Today’s big question Amnesty report slams Boris Johnson’s government over ‘failings’ including Covid response and protests crackdown by The Week team 8 Apr 2021 The UK is “speeding towards a cliff edge” on human rights, Amnesty International has warned.  In what The Guardian describes as a “stark rebuke” to Boris Johnson’s government, organisation’s…

Under-30s in Britain will be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine following a review into a possible link to rare blood clots. People aged 18 to 29 will instead get the Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna or another jab where available. It came as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in…

Opposition parties are withholding their support for the government's domestic COVID passports plan in a warning that Boris Johnson could struggle to get his proposals through the House of Commons. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party "do not support the government's plans in their current form" and attacked…

News Corey Connelly 12 Hrs AgoPrime Minister Dr Keith Rowley. - Three days after assuring citizens in his Easter message that the country will overcome the socio-economic challenges triggered by covid19, the Prime Minister has himself contracted the virus and is being treated at an undisclosed site in Tobago. A…

England's third wave of coronavirus when restrictions are lifted in June is likely to be a small fraction of the size of previous peaks and daily deaths will remain in double figures, according to the best projections from Number 10's scientists. Modelling by Imperial College London academics — involving the…

LONDON—British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the U.K. will begin to relax more public-health restrictions starting next week and remains on course to fully reopen its economy by the summer, after months of lockdown and a speedy vaccination campaign turned back a deadly tide of infection. The U.K.’s changing fortunes…

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to set out plans to develop a "Covid status certification" scheme to enable the safe return of mass gatherings and indoor events as lockdown restrictions ease in England. Officials are planning a series of trial events over the coming months as they look to find…

Boris Johnson has said Britain can look forward to "brighter days ahead" while Sir Keir Starmer has said "it's a time for hope and renewal" as the country celebrates Easter. The Prime Minister said it had been a "very tough" year, but said the holiday brought with it new hope.…

Boris Johnson is to set out plans for a domestic "vaccine passport" system to help the country ease itself out of lockdown. Mr Johnson said he rejects the term "vaccine passports", but on Bank Holiday Monday he will announce a system for "COVID-status certification" which could allow people to return…