Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has vowed to "do everything we need to do" - including an attempt to override post-Brexit arrangements with the EU - in order to "ensure there is no barrier down the Irish Sea". Having held talks with Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster on Wednesday morning, the prime…

Boris Johnson has defended attacks on his planned hotel quarantine scheme, saying it is "not practical" to completely shut Britain's borders to protect against new coronavirus variants. The prime minister was accused of not listening to his scientific advisers, who said on 21 January that only mandatory isolation in government-provided…

Boris Johnson faces Keir Starmer and MPs at PMQs The UK has urged the EU to extend the Brexit “grace period” to 2023 in a bid to avoid more border chaos.  This comes as Boris Johnson called for “urgent action” from the EU to address the tensions caused by post-Brexit…

Tributes flooded in from around the world on Tuesday following the death of Captain Sir Tom Moore, the 100-year-old British military veteran who won hearts with his fundraising during the pandemic. Moore, who raised nearly £33 million ($45 million, 37 million euros) for UK health service charities, died in hospital…

The latest 24-hour government figures show a further 1,200 people have died with Covid – bringing the government’s official UK total to more than 105,000. There have been another 23,000 new cases. More than 487,000 people received their first dose of a Covid vaccine yesterday, bringing the total number of…

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson is among those sending well wishes to Captain Sir Tom Moore, who is in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus. The 100-year-old charity fundraiser was taken to Bedford Hospital yesterday, after being treated for pneumonia for some time and testing positive for Covid-19 last week.…

England's health service says it has offered the COVID-19 vaccine at almost every care home with elderly residents in the nation. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is calling the feat "a crucial milestone". Britain, which has one of the world's highest COVID death tolls, is one of the first countries to…

The Prime Minister said on Sunday we “will continue to take steps to protect” the deliveries, in his first public comments since Brussels briefly overrode part of the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland to impose export controls on jabs. His comments came after ministers agreed to a “reset” in relations…

Boris Johnson forced the EU into an extraordinary double climbdown during a dramatic late-night intervention to protect the UK's record-breaking vaccine rollout. During two phone calls just 30 minutes apart, the Prime Minister made European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ditch plans to stop 3.5 million doses of the Pfizer…

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