Boris johnson brexit speech

For Cummings, the call to Johnson’s side in Downing Street last July was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Not just to “get Brexit done”, the ringing election slogan that party legend says was first uttered by a participant in one of his beloved focus groups, but to pursue his other intellectual preoccupation – reshaping the British state. … [Read more...] about How Dominic Cummings became indispensable to Boris Johnson

And Sir Roger Gale, the North Thanet MP, said: 'While as a father and as a grandfather I fully appreciate Mr Cummings' desire to protect his child, there cannot be one law for the Prime Minister's staff and another for everyone else. He has sent out completely the wrong message and his position is no longer tenable.' … [Read more...] about Protesters set up camp outside Dominic Cummings’s home and blast Boris Johnson’s ‘stay at home’ speech on a huge screen

Chronically competitive from childhood, spent with three siblings, he perfected his bulldog iron will on the playing fields of Eton, a school renowned for its brutal expectations. Both at rugby and Eton's uniquely physical Wall Game (which, aptly, to the uninitiated seems to have no rules), Boris led the charge, breaking bones and egos with one sole objective – to win. … [Read more...] about Thank you for saving my life: Boris Johnson stops in Downing Street to deliver tribute to the ‘beating heart of this country’ NHS before heading with pregnant fiancée Carrie to Chequers by car

Professor Peter Openshaw, a member of the Government's Nervtag (new and emerging respiratory virus threats advisory group), told the paper: 'I think that critical period of delay made the big difference to the peak numbers, both of hospitalisations and of deaths. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus infections rocketed from 200,000 to 1.5million in the days before lockdown as Boris Johnson ‘dithered’ about what to do, Neil Ferguson’s Imperial College unit claims

Brexit timeline: Charting Britain's turbulent exodus from Europe October 2019: A new deal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson managed to secure a deal with European negotiators that would allow the UK to leave the EU in an orderly manner. The deal received unanimous backing from the leaders of 27 other member states. But an attempt to get the UK Parliament to sign off on the deal failed. Instead, Parliament pushed for the Brexit deadline to be extended until the end of January 2020. … [Read more...] about UK pro-EU campaigners hold ‘No to Boris’ march in London