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LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative government faced a rebellion from some of its own legislators on Tuesday after it summoned Members of Parliament back to London and scrapped a remote-voting system used during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown.Like millions of other Britons, the country's 650 lawmakers have largely…

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government faced a rebellion from some of its own legislators on Tuesday after it summoned Members of Parliament back to London and scrapped a remote-voting system used during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown.Like millions of other Britons, the country’s 650 lawmakers have largely…

GLASGOW — Nicola Sturgeon is having a good crisis — on paper, at least. An Ipsos MORI poll published on May 26 found 82 percent of Scots think the Scottish National Party leader, who heads up Scotland’s semi-autonomous government in Edinburgh, is handling the coronavirus outbreak well and a further…

This House at London’s National Theatre. Johan Persson With Trump cultists spreading more disease across our pandemic-ravaged nation, a nakedly plutocratic Senate enabling a racist dictator, and cities burning over the police murder of unarmed black citizens, one might gaze enviously at the political woes of another country in another…

The EU’s trade negotiator Michel Barnier has launched a fresh offer to extend the transition period by two years in response to requests from British Opposition MPs including Scottish separatist Ian Blackford, who has recently put pressure on the prime minister to sack Dominic Cummings over alleged lockdown breaches. Responding…

It’s odd that a play from 1938 has given the present moment one of its most useful concepts. In Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight, a husband makes his wife doubt her own memory and senses by denying that the light in their house is dimming. And “gaslighting” is exactly what Dominic Cummings…

It’s odd that a play from 1938 has given the present moment one of its most useful concepts. In Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight, a husband makes his wife doubt her own memory and senses by denying that the light in their house is dimming. And “gaslighting” is exactly what Dominic Cummings…

Police have begun investigating Dominic Cummings's alleged breach of coronavirus lockdown rules as anger continues to grow among Conservative MPs about the actions of the prime minister's chief adviser.More than 30 Tory MPs are now publicly calling for Mr Cummings, who is Boris Johnson's most senior aide, to resign or be…

Despite his denials of wrongdoing, Dominic Cummings hasn’t been able to escape dogged allegations over the past few days that he acted improperly by breaching the coronavirus lockdown. Now, it appears those same accusations have followed him to his front door. A giant mobile screen showing Boris Johnson saying “you…

LONDON — Boris Johnson has a choice: to keep his chief adviser or to maintain the credibility of the U.K. government’s lockdown rules. That’s the message from a growing number of Tory MPs who are feeling the backlash from their constituents over the alleged multiple breaches of coronavirus lockdown rules…