Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has been forced to make a number of significant U-turns in less than a year in office, with several key policy decisions scrapped during the pandemic. Face masks in schools – 25 AugustThe prime minister dropped advice against the use of face covering in English schools, in an…

Le Caprice, a fixture on the London dining scene for almost 40 years, and beloved of many an A-list celebrity, is shutting the doors of its West End location with plans to reincarnate elsewhere. The… Read More

Photo: AF archive / Alamy Stock Photo and Getty ImagesIt has been a long road to the UK's Gender Recognition Act reform. Now, according to a Sunday Times leak, the government is scrapping proposals that would make it easier for trans people to change their legal gender without undergoing a costly and time-consuming…

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(LONDON) — Britain is marking the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower apartment block fire with a virtual church service to remember the 72 people who died in the blaze. Sunday marks three years since a small kitchen fire in the west London public-housing block turned into the worst domestic…

The UK government is reportedly set to scrap tough plans for checks on all EU goods from next year.Michael Gove had said that all EU goods would face checks in the absence of a free trade deal at the end of the Brexit transition period.Business groups warned the government that…

LONDON — The gloves are off as Britain starts to examine its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Boris Johnson on Wednesday insisted it was "premature" to say the U.K. had made mistakes in its response to the crisis, after a top adviser said the country’s death toll could have been…

Boris Johnson has been warned that Parliament 'is feeling increasingly restless about the UK's dependency on China' - ShutterstockBoris Johnson must provide a legally-binding date to strip Huawei from Britain's 5G network or face a Commons defeat, senior Tory MPs have warned.Conservatives are pressing for a concrete pledge by the…

Boris Johnson is promising millions of Hong Kongers a potential escape route from China's harsh new security law: a path to UK citizenship. In a column published in British and Hong Kong newspapers Wednesday, Johnson pledged massive changes to his country’s immigration rules to allow as many as 3 million…

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chinese President Xi Jinping.GettyChina told the UK to "step back from the brink" after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would offer millions of Hong Kong residents the right to move to Britain if China strips away their freedoms.There is growing alarm in the…