Tag: United Kingdom

• Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:40 UTC

  Falklands expects a great summer season: return of cruise ships and air links

  

  The Falkland Islands Tourist Board has released its July newsletter in which it gives an update of what everybody is expecting to be a great summer season after a hiatus of two years because of the pandemic.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 22:40 UTC

  Sunak almost certain of showdown berth against Mordaunt or Truss

  

  Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak won Tuesday's round of voting within the Conservative Party ranks to appoint a new leader who would also become British Prime Minister.

• Friday, July 15th 2022 - 03:03 UTC

  Bolsonaro hints solution to Ukraine war resembles that of 1982 in the South Atlantic

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Thursday said he had “the solution” to the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine and vowed to discuss it with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.

• Thursday, July 14th 2022 - 22:30 UTC

  Braverman out, Sunak still ahead in Tory leadership contest

  

  Attorney General Suella Braverman Thursday crashed out of the Conservative leadership race and will reportedly support Foreign Secretary Liz Truss' bid to become Boris Johnson's successor as UK Prime Minister after former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Trade Secretary Penny Mordaunt strengthened their advantage in the Conservative Party leadership contest.

• Thursday, July 14th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt, ahead in first vote to replace Boris Johnson

  

  Tories in the British Parliament cast their first-round of votes on Wednesday to pick a candidate to replace outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson as head of the party and UK's head of government.

• Thursday, July 14th 2022 - 07:34 UTC

  Underdog contender jumps into the limelight in UK PM race

  

  British Foreign Trade Secretary Penny Mordaunt Wednesday came out of near-anonymity and became a serious contender to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and take over as the new Prime Minister following Wednesday's round of voting in which Economy Minister Nadhim Zahawi and former Health Minister Jeremy Hunt were cast aside.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Milestone Parliament debate on Queen's Guards iconic bear skin caps

  

  A milestone debate took place in the House of Commons on Monday, during which Members of Parliament from several political parties scrutinized the Ministry of Defense’s (MoD) continued use of real bear fur for the Queen’s Guard’s caps and spoke passionately about the need to switch to faux fur.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:14 UTC

  UK Ministry of Defense criticizes BBC Panorama program for putting “armed forces personnel at risk”

  

  British Armed Forces personnel have been put “at risk both in the field and in reputation” by BBC Panorama's episode about SAS operations in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MOD) has said. MOD has put out a strong statement criticizing “unjustified conclusions” in an upcoming hour-long documentary, called SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 12:07 UTC

  Voting for next Conservative party leader and to replace Boris Johnson begins

  

  Voting will get underway this Wednesday for candidates striving to become the leader of the Conservative party and the next British prime minister. So far eleven MPs have put themselves forward to replace Boris Johnson which comes after the party increased the number of nominations needed to make it to the first-round ballot, in order to speed up the election process.

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Queen's Guards bearskin caps debate in Commons: petition to replace them by fake ones

  

  This Monday 11 July, the House of Commons will debate a petition relating to the use of real bearskin hats by the Queen's Guards.