Tag: Sajid Javid

• 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.

• Thursday, March 31st 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  After restrictions lifted, Britons advised to stay at home in case of COVID-19

  

  As the UK plans to lift all sanitary restrictions this coming Friday, health authorities have urged the citizenry to try to “stay home and avoid contact with other people” in case of symptoms of a respiratory illness.

• Friday, November 5th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  UK green-lights use of Merck's COVID-19 pill

  

  The United Kingdom Thursday became the first country in the world to authorize the use of molnupiravir, a pill developed by US laboratories Merck, to treat COVID-19.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 21:59 UTC

  Seven LatAm countries to be removed from UK's travel red list

  

  The United Kingdom's Departments for Transport and of Health and Social Care Thursday issued a joint press release announcing that the seven countries still on the travel red list, all of them from Latin America, would be removed from it shortly.

• Thursday, October 21st 2021 - 21:07 UTC

  COVID-19 cases soar among British children

  

  New COVID-19 cases seem to be on the rise in England, according to the latest UK Health Security Agency (HSA) report, which showed a total of 1,366.8 cases per 100,000 people aged 10 to 19 were recorded between Oct. 10 and 17, against 1,134.9 the previous week.

• Thursday, October 7th 2021 - 23:51 UTC

  Entire Mercosur out of Britain's travel red group, which is now focused solely on other LatAm nations

  

  The United Kingdom has removed 47 destinations from its travel red list, which has been narrowed down to just seven nations, all of them within Latin America and four from South America, it was announced Thursday.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2019 - 08:19 UTC

  Brexit 31 October commemorative coins to be “recycled”

  

  Commemorative coins minted to mark Brexit on 31 October will be “recycled” after the UK's exit from the EU was delayed by a further three months. The Royal Mint had been asked to produce new 50p pieces featuring the UK's scheduled departure date.

• Monday, September 9th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Johnson will try for another Brexit deal but will not ask for an extension, despite the law the Queen signs on Monday

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson is sticking to his Brexit plan and will not seek a delay to Britain's departure from the EU at a summit next month, two of his ministers said on Sunday following a resignation from his government.

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Tens of thousands in UK cities protest the suspension of parliament

  

  Tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets across the UK on Saturday to show their opposition to government moves to close parliament ahead of the Brexit deadline on October 31.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 05:08 UTC

  Johnson names cabinet: Sajid Javid, finance; Raab. foreign secretary, Priti Patel home secretary

  

  New Prime Minister Boris Johnson sacked most of Britain's cabinet on Wednesday as he took office vowing to get a new divorce deal with the European Union or leave without one by Oct 31. The former London mayor has pledged to break the political deadlock that has left Britain in crisis and forced his predecessor Theresa May to delay Brexit twice.