1,810 items found
Under attack from both sides: Theresa May’s shifting Brexit policy has faced days of criticism from Eurosceptics and Remainers on the Tory benches. Today it was the turn of newly-minted backbencher Boris Johnson. In his resignation statement, the former foreign secretary accused the Prime Minister of self-doubt; dither, and a stealthy retreat from her original…
Gary Gibbon
The government was careful, as Boris Johnson knew it would be, to create a buffer zone of statements between the Prime Minister sitting down at the end of PMQs and Boris Johnson getting to his feet to rubbish her Brexit strategy in his resignation speech. He accused Theresa May of leading a “stealthy retreat” to…
FactCheck takes a look.
Boris Johnson was certainly the cabinet’s most flamboyant figure, as well as its most prominent Brexiteer. And he’s had a difficult few weeks, from his highly visible absence from the vote over the Heathrow expansion, to the four-letter expletive he issued to businesses concerned about the impact of Brexit. He has made no secret of…
Gary Gibbon
Boris Johnson following David Davis out the door gives those Tory Brexiteers who want to storm the Downing Street barricades all the spur to action they need. Mr Johnson took a while to make his mind up, arguably many months. It’s not the most dignified resignation perhaps, waiting for Mr Davis to take the lead…
Emily Thornberry, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, discusses Boris Johnson and Brexit.
It comes to something when Kabul is a safe port in a political storm. Yet the Afghan capital was where Boris Johnson flew today, in order to avoid a crucial Commons vote on Heathrow’s third runway, which could have seen him forced to resign. Mr Johnson, who famously vowed to lie in front of a…
We can’t see how Boris Johnson could get his own plane as Foreign Secretary without greatly increasing the amount the taxpayer spends on his international travel.
There’s been more international condemnation today of Israel’s security forces killing dozens of protesters on its border with Gaza. Boris Johnson has been meeting his European counterparts in Brussels.
Fresh from his Washington trip, the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has criticised Downing Street’s favoured proposal for a post-Brexit customs partnership. “Crazy” was the epithet he chose to describe the plan. On top of that, a vote in the House of Lords further threatens to derail the government’s hopes of a smooth journey to Brexit…
Boris Johnson has pleaded with President Trump not to “throw the baby out with the bathwater” by rejecting the Iran nuclear agreement. He’s on a trip to Washington with the goal of keeping the U.S. in the deal as it comes up for re-certification. The President has – in the past – described the international…
The Russian embassy in London has called for a meeting with the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over the Salisbury poison attack – claiming its dealings with the UK had been “utterly unsatisfactory”. The Foreign Office hit back, saying it was Russia’s response that had been unsatisfactory – accusing them of failing to answer numerous questions…
The head of Porton Down, the government’s military research facility, appears to have contradicted claims by the foreign secretary over the poisoning of a former spy, Sergei Skripal. Boris Johnson seemingly confirmed that scientists had “no doubt” that the nerve agent used was made in Russia. But Porton Down now says it has “not identified the precise source”.
Boris Johnson has dismissed as ‘ludicrous’ claims the Brexit campaign broke election spending rules. His comments come after a Whistleblower for the ‘Vote Leave’ campaign group told this programme that their side cheated on how much they spent on digital campaigning and targetted ads on platforms like Facebook. Labour’s Deputy Leader said a police investigation…
We don’t yet know whether the Salisbury attack had any impact on the re-election of Vladimir Putin but we do know that the temperature between Moscow and London keeps getting chillier. Today the Foreign Secretary claimed that Russia has been investigating ways of using nerve agents for assassination for the last decade. Boris Johnson also said…