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Boris Johnson has urged office workers to stay at home and slashed wedding parties to 15 people as part of his fresh battle plan to tackle the surge in coronavirus cases.Read More

The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday - Friday plus breaking news updates The military could be drafted in to free up police so they can focus on enforcing tougher coronavirus rules in a bid to slow the spread of the pandemic, Boris Johnson has warned. The…

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Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top politics stories again. Invalid emailWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights.Boris Johnson announced he is "feeling the weight of responsibility acutely" amid the coronavirus…

The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday - Friday plus breaking news updates Senior members of the Tory party are planning to stop Boris Johnson imposing new coronavirus lockdown restrictions without the say of Parliament. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee, has said…

When Boris Johnson appeared before the House of Commons Liaison Committee at 3.30pm on Wednesday (UK time), he made his distaste for a second national lockdown abundantly clear.Such a measure would be economically "disastrous" and "completely wrong for this country", the Prime Minister told the senior MPs.Yet despite his rhetoric,…

Britain is entering a second wave of coronavirus, Boris Johnson has said as scientists expressed fears the death toll could be as high as in the first spike without a rapid change in public behaviour. The prime minister is prepared to impose sweeping nationwide measures to curb the spread of…

Twenty years ago, a novelist went to see his publisher to discuss his proposal to write a dystopian novel set in Britain in 2020 when newspaper columnists have taken power and are running the country. These opinion-makers, sometimes called the Commentariat, had for years been expressing outrage at the failings of…

Amal Clooney has quit her role as UK special envoy in protest over Boris Johnson’s government’s “lamentable” decision to break international law with its new Brexit bill.The prominent human rights lawyer submitted her resignation as special envoy on media freedom to foreign secretary Dominic Raab on Friday.“Very sadly, it has…

Labour MP John McDonnell has landed in hot water on the eve of his party’s conference by referring to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s style of governance as “proto-facism”.In an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the former shadow chancellor drew parallels between Johnson and US President Donald Trump and claimed that parts…