Tag: Boris Johnson

• Monday, July 13th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Boris Johnson expected to announce staff should return to their working places

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell employers next week to start ordering staff back into their places of work, as long as it is safe to do so, in order to stem the coronavirus hit to the economy, the Daily Mail said.

• Wednesday, July 8th 2020 - 06:35 UTC

  Britain prepared to leave the EU in terms similar to Australia, Johnson tells Merkel

  

  Britain is prepared to leave the European Union on the same terms as Australia has with the bloc if it cannot agree on a future trading deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Germany's Angela Merkel in a telephone call on Tuesday.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  Johnson calls on Britons to behave on “Super Saturday” when pubs reopen

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson will urge Britons to act responsibly when pubs reopen this weekend, warning that businesses, livelihoods and the future of the whole economy depend on it.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 10:50 UTC

  Britain will allow three million Hong Kong citizens to move to the UK

  

  Boris Johnson's government will allow almost three million Hong Kong citizens to move to Britain, risking a further escalation of tensions with China after it enforced a sweeping security law on the former British colony

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 10:32 UTC

  Johnson tells Israel that UK would not recognize any changes to the 1967 lines

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Israel it should not go ahead with a plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, cautioning that London would not recognize any changes to the 1967 lines.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Johnson: Coronavirus, a disaster for the UK; Labour leader Starmer: PM has been asleep on the wheel

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the coronavirus crisis had been a disaster for the United Kingdom and while the government would look at what went wrong, it was not the right time to have an inquiry into missteps.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  British are the fattest after Malta in Europe, says Johnson who admits he needs to lose weight

  

  The British are far fatter than any other nation in Europe bar the Maltese so there needs to be a debate about how to tackle soaring rates of obesity which cost the country dearly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 07:43 UTC

  Boris Johnson in major speech will pledge billions in public works to jump start the economy

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed Britain will spend large sums on hospitals, schools and roads to jump-start the economy as it emerges from the coronavirus lockdown that has plunged the country into what may be the worst recession in three centuries.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 10:09 UTC

  Britain's most senior civil servant stands down

  

  Britain's most senior civil servant, Mark Sedwill, told Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday he would stand down as cabinet secretary and national security adviser.

• Friday, June 26th 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Boris played Donald Trump “like a fiddle”, says John Bolton

  

  Just like the Russian President, Britain's Boris Johnson also played Donald Trump “like a fiddle,” according to John Bolton, who suggested the British prime minister can use that ability to his advantage.