Boris Johnson

Who took Boris Johnson to a music festival? How many Andrews ministers have flown the coop? And how many times can one premier break COVID restrictions? Test your news skills now! This week had a savage political coup in South Australia, some provocative freelancing from former PM Tony Abbott, and…

The petrol station situation is “stabilising”, Boris Johnson has insisted, telling motorists to behave normally and just fill up their cars when they really need it. This was after yet more lengthy queues at forecourts around the country, and reports that all sorts of key workers, from critical NHS staff…

The British government’s dithering in the crucial early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic ended up costing thousands of people their lives, according to an excoriating new report from lawmakers on how the U.K. has handled the COVID-19 crisis. The report, published on Tuesday, states that, if Johnson’s government had introduced…

Image source, Getty Images Firms hit by a sharp surge in energy prices are expected to get government help worth hundreds of millions of pounds, the BBC understands. Glass, ceramic and paper manufacturers have warned that rising prices may mean they have to charge customers more. On Monday, business Secretary…

Boris Johnson has promised bereaved family members that he’ll appoint a chair of the public inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic by Christmas. The prime minister met a group of five relatives, who’ve all lost loved ones to the virus, at Downing Street, more than a year after he promised such…

The damning joint report by Commons committees, chaired by Conservative former Cabinet ­Ministers and with Tory majorities, is the reason why Boris Johnson is delaying a full public inquiry Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Image: Getty Images) Boris Johnson and his most senior aides have been found to have committed…

It is “reasonable” for Boris Johnson to go on holiday while his government battles with the deepening energy crisis, a cabinet minister has said. usiness secretary Kwasi Kwarteng on Sunday defended the prime minister’s decisions to fly to Marbella for a break. Mr Kwarteng, the minister responsible for the government’s…

Boris Johnson’s pledge at the last election to build 300,000 new home a year by the middle of this decade is now “almost impossible” due to labour and material shortages, according to industry groups. The Conservative party’s election winning 2019 manifesto included a promise to build “300,000 homes a year…

NewsUKUK PoliticsPM away for a week in southern Spain File photo: PM on a Cornwall beach in June (POOL/AFP/Getty) Boris Johnson is taking a week-long holiday in Marbella, according to reports. He left Britain on Friday and is reportedly staying in a luxury villa on the Costa del Sol in…

London is in need of some attention from Boris Johnson’s levelling up agenda, as the capital had the highest poverty rates even before Covid-19 – a pandemic which has widened existing inequalities across the board in the UK. Three in five, or 58 per cent, of people in poverty in…