Tag: Boris Johnson

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Why Commonwealth summit in Rwanda won't be the re-launch some were expecting

  

  Leaders of some 54 countries – from Africa, Europe, Asia, and Southern America – have converged on Kigali, Rwanda, until 25 June for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Philip Murphy, a professor of Commonwealth history (School of Advanced Study) examines the expectations and limitations of the Kigali conference.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  “People everywhere have a right to decide their own future,” PM Johnson at Falklands' Liberation ceremony

  

  At a ceremony Tuesday morning held at Staffordshire's National Memorial Arboretum, British prime minister Boris Johnson praised the daring bravery of Veterans, recalling that on the very day, exactly forty years ago, British soldiers entered Stanley and liberated the Falkland Islands from foreign occupation. And since Liberation, the Falkland Islands have lived and thrived in peace and freedom looking into the future.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  With a 'quieter' Westminster, Johnson admits he might visit the Falklands

  

  Prime minister Boris Johnson said that “now things are a bit quieter in Westminster”, he might be able to visit the Falkland Islands, pointing out he was probably the only person at the Speaker's House ceremony who has never visited the Islands.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2022 - 07:49 UTC

  Boris Johnson problems are not over, and there is a list of hopefuls

  

  The Prime Minister's victory in Monday's confidence vote does not mean the end of Boris Johnson's problems. Tory MPs voted by 211 to 148 in support of the PM, but the scale of the revolt against his leadership leaves him wounded.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 23:30 UTC

  PM Johnson wins vote of confidence but shadowy future still ahead

  

  Britain's Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a vote of confidence Monday by 211 to 148 but faces a new political scenario after a rebellion from within Tory ranks comparable in size to the one suffered by Theresa May.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  PM Johnson wants to go back to pounds and ounces

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is weighing a possible return to imperial units of measurement in a post-Brexit move to fully part with the remaining vestiges of the European alliance, it was reported in London. He had already pledged to take this path during his 2019 campaign.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  UK/Uruguay joint statement reaffirms strong relationship and commitments

  

  The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP, and the President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Dr Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, met on 23 May.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:33 UTC

  UK Foreign office releases paper on Business Risks in Uruguay

  

  Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou is currently on a four-day visit to Great Britain, invited by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. According to Uruguayan officials, the main purpose of the visit is to promote trade and investments and reinforce the strong historic ties between the two countries.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 23:54 UTC

  Lacalle Pou with a green message in London: Uruguay “is among the strongest democracies in the world”

  

  By Graham Bound for MercoPress (London) – Only on the most serene of news-days might a visit to the United Kingdom by the President of Uruguay make headlines in the country’s newspapers and broadcast bulletins. For a little while it actually looked as if there might be just such a benign news environment. But as President Luis Lacalle Pou took his seat at Canning House, the Latin America and Iberia think tank, on Monday evening to deliver a lecture titled “Uruguay, a Reliable Gateway to South America – Opportunities in Green Finance”, he must have known that he had been totally eclipsed by his host, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 20:48 UTC

  Lacalle Pou met with Boris Johnson at Downing Street: find out what they talked about

  

  During his official visit to the United Kingdom, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou visited British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who welcomed him at the door of Downing Street. The meeting lasted approximately one hour.