Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden has resigned after two humiliating by-election defeats. In a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson the Tory MP said “someone must take responsibility” for the losses in Tiverton and Honiton to the Lib Dems and Wakefield to Labour. The contests, triggered by the resignation of disgraced Tories, offered voters the
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that Britain was willing to assist with de-mining operations off Ukraine’s southern coast and was considering offering insurance to ships to move millions of metric tons of grain stuck in the country. Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine and blockade of its Black Sea ports has prevented the
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to set out his vision for lower-paid workers to be able to use housing benefits to buy their homes – and an extension of the right to buy for housing association tenants – in a speech in Lancashire today. The Prime Minister is seeking to repair his fortunes after a
Issued on: 06/06/2022 – 09:17 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a confidence vote by lawmakers in the governing Conservative Party later on Monday, the chairman of the 1922 Committee Graham Brady has told lawmakers. “The threshold of 15% of the parliamentary party seeking a vote of confidence in the leader of the Conservative
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sees rebel members of parliament from the governing Conservative Party triggering a vote on his leadership as soon as this week, according to one of his key allies. Tory MPs seeking to oust Johnson may be on the cusp of securing the 54 letters required to force a confidence vote,
Boris Johnson faces fresh demands to “come clean” about parties in Downing Street after reports emerged that the Prime Minister’s wife, Carrie Johnson, may now have had two lockdown parties in family flat above No 10. Labour has called for an investigation into leaked texts suggesting there was a second gathering in Boris Johnson’s Downing
The Japanese and British governments have resolved the primary jurisdiction issue in talks to conclude a reciprocal access agreement (RAA) that stipulates the legal status of Self-Defense Forces personnel and British troops while in each other’s territory, it was learned Tuesday. The two governments have agreed to grant the primary jurisdiction to the country sending
The Duke of Cambridge has presented podcast host Deborah James with a damehood at her family home. The 40-year-old, known online as Bowel Babe, was honoured for her “tireless campaigning” to raise awareness of bowel cancer. Dame Deborah posted pictures of William with herself and her family on Instagram and said it was “such a
Boris Johnson faces the threat of a national public sector strike over plans to axe tens of thousands of civil service jobs. The Prime Minister put himself on a collision course with trade unions after it was revealed he has tasked his Cabinet with cutting about 90,000 jobs. Unions reacted with fury after Johnson told
Boris Johnson’s Conservatives shed seats across England and lost three London strongholds, but the prime minister appears to have avoided the scale of disaster in Thursday’s local elections that might have triggered a fresh bid by members of his party to replace him. With more than half of councils reporting results, the U.K. governing party
