Tag: United Kingdom

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  PM Johnson collects a seventh setback in Parliament, but insists with his Brexit strategy

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered yet another setback on Thursday after MPs rejected a request to briefly suspend business for his party's conference, highlighting the hostility he faces in parliament just weeks before Brexit. In his seventh successive defeat in parliament, MPs voted to reject his call for three days off next week to hold his Conservative party's annual conference in Manchester.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:13 UTC

  PM Johnson defies the opposition to call a confidence vote on Thursday, and a “snap election”

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday challenged opposition MPs to call a confidence vote in his government, in a defiant response to the Supreme Court decision to strike down his suspension of parliament.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 07:53 UTC

  Johnson asks how come Thomas Cook directors paid themselves large sums when a business goes down the tube

  

  After the collapse of Thomas Cook left hundreds of thousands of passengers reliant on the British state to repatriate them, Prime Minister Boris Johnson questioned whether bosses should have paid themselves so much ahead of its demise.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Falklands recognizes the twelve year service of HMS Clyde

  

  A special service has been held at Christ Church Cathedral on the Falkland Islands to celebrate the work of a long-standing community member - HMS Clyde. The Royal Navy's River-class vessel is recognized as the Falklands patrol ship, having been dedicated to the South Atlantic for the last 12 years.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 17:14 UTC

  Supreme Court rules suspending Parliament “unlawful”; calls for Johnson to resign; PM insists with fresh election

  

  Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a decision by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend parliament in the run-up to Brexit was “unlawful”, saying it was “void and of no effect”. The 11 judges of the country's highest court were unanimous in their verdict, which they said meant parliament could now immediately reconvene.

• Monday, September 23rd 2019 - 18:47 UTC

  Thomas Cook goes bankrupt, leaves passengers stranded and workers jobless

  

  The British 178-year-old Thomas Cook Group Plc. tour operators have filed for bankruptcy in the United Kingdom, leaving some 600,000 tourists stranded at their holiday destinations, which has prompted the government to launch a massive airlift to bring them back home using 45 chartered airliners.

• Friday, September 20th 2019 - 13:33 UTC

  Meet the world’s ‘coolest’ post office's new antarctic team

  

  The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) is delighted to reveal the new Port Lockroy team who will live and work on the remote island of Port Lockroy off the Antarctic Peninsula during the next Austral Antarctic summer (November 2019 – March 2020).

• Friday, September 20th 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  UK biggest foreign investor in Peru, underlines Ambassador Harrisson

  

  Britain's Ambassador to Peru Kate Harrisson Thursday highlighted that the United Kingdom is currently the biggest foreign investor in the Andean country, thanks to the sizeable mining projects currently under way.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Image of Virgin of Lujan taken to Falklands during the war to be returned at ceremony blessed by the Pope

  

  An image of Argentina's saint patron, the Virgin of Lujan, which was carried to the Falklands during the 1982 conflict, and remained unaccounted for during years, will be returned by the United Kingdom. In retribution, the Argentine military bishop will hand a replica of the image to the head of British military chaplains in a ceremony to take place next month in the Vatican with Pope Francis blessing the images.

• Monday, September 16th 2019 - 08:51 UTC

  Clashes of British and French fishing fleets anticipated in a no deal Brexit

  

  The waters for French fishermen are being stirred up by uncertainty of what will happen if Britain leaves the EU without a deal on Oct 31 and their boats barred from British waters.