Boris Johnson

Image source, Downing Street Image caption, Boris Johnson meets Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Number Ten Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not explicitly apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after she criticised his handling of her six-year detention in Iran, her husband has said. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe asked the PM why it took so long…

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Boris Johnson has ordered ministers to come up with plans to cut more than 90,000 civil service jobs in order to free up billions of pounds for measures to ease the cost-of-living crisis with possible tax cuts. During an away-day with cabinet ministers in Stoke-on-Trent, the prime minister asked them…

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Tuesday 10 May 2022 8:00 pm Boris Johnson did not introduce new measures for the cost of living (Photo by Toby Melville – WPA Pool/Getty Images) BORIS Johnson should cut National Insurance contributions in a bid to ease the cost of living, Sadiq Khan has said during a trip to…

The Public Order Bill will enable police to jail protesters for six months if they 'lock on' to public transport infrastructure or glue themselves to roads. These tactics have been used by groups including Insulate Britain. (Image: Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock) Boris Johnson will today unveil plans to crack down…

A resignation by Sir Keir Starmer would not mean the Prime Minister should do the same, according to a Government minister, after the Labour leader said he would step down if he is fined by police over alleged lockdown rule-breaking. Sir Keir said he would do the “right thing” if…

Boris had food poisoning and was sick on his suit before brutal GMB interview where he was 'beaten up' by Susanna Reid over cost-of-living crisisBoris Johnson gave car-crash interview on ITV's Good Morning Britain last weekPM hailed free bus passes when told pensioner was using them to keep warmAides blamed…

By Chris Mason Political correspondent, BBC News A fractious UK. A fractious Westminster. As the final votes are counted, we can now survey where these elections leave the country, and those who lead us - and what happens next. What has happened in Northern Ireland is profound. For the first…

W here do May’s elections leave the main Westminster parties and what is happening in Northern Ireland? Here we look at some of the key questions surrounding the council contests in England, Scotland and Wales, and the Stormont elections in Northern Ireland. – What happened? The Tories suffered a loss…