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Gary Gibbon
Philip Hammond has just told Radio 4 that Boris Johnson’s absolute two- year limit on a transition, nailed to the church door in his “Sun” article, was “a rhetorical flourish”. I think that is Treasury-speak for “a giant porkie”. He’d seen the phrase “about two years” in the PM’s speech and did not attack it…
This government is driven from the front, Theresa May said today, as she insisted that her cabinet is united over Brexit. On a visit to Canada, the Prime Minister was asked whether she was frustrated by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s latest intervention in the Brexit debate. Her response: “Boris is Boris”. He was at the…
We’ve FactChecked this to death – suffice to say that Britain does not in fact spend anything like £350m a week on EU membership fees.
Gary Gibbon
Boris Johnson’s Telegraph article is clearly the speech he had hoped to give about now but was told by a No 10 emissary he should not. Instead he has burst on to the scene in print, albeit unhelpfully behind a paywall and on a day when the threat level has been raised and eyes are…
Gary Gibbon
You hear of envoys being sent from No 10 to the FCO on “getting to know you” sessions. Tory MPs ask: “You hearing Boris might flounce out?”
We report from Anguilla as Boris Johnson defends the government’s hurricane relief effort, saying it was “extremely fast” as he arrived on the island of Anguilla to see the aid operation in action.
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has slapped down the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who said yesterday that the EU could whistle for its “extortionate” Brexit bill. Mr Barnier’s tart response was: “I can’t hear any whistling, just the clock ticking.” And he said that the EU could not trust Britain if it didn’t…
There’s no G7 backing for Boris Johnson’s call for new sanctions against Russia and Syria after last week’s chemical attack on a rebel-held town. The G7 said they don’t want to push Russia into a corner.
The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has cancelled a planned trip to Moscow tomorrow, saying Russia’s continued defence of President Assad after the chemical weapons attack was “deplorable”.
Europe’s leaders have been telling Theresa May how difficult her plan for Brexit is going to be to negotiate.
Is Saudi Arabia “playing proxy wars” by taking sides in religious conflicts in the Middle East? That’s what the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said at a conference just a week ago in Italy. Theresa May clearly doesn’t agree. The Prime Minister publicly overruled Mr Johnson – saying his remarks did not reflect the Government’s views about…
Gary Gibbon
On Theresa May’s flight to New York one official on her team joked he’d issued instructions that Boris Johnson was to be “rugby tackled” if he looked like he was leaving their section of the plane to mingle with the media.
Gary Gibbon
As recently as last night at the Tory Fundraiser at the Hurlingham Club in West London, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson had their arms around each other.
Gary Gibbon
Boris Johnson, the narrative goes, is for the little guy, the fellow on PAYE, the little people who pay their taxes.
Boris Johnson is Vote Leave’s biggest asset – and now he’s riding the campaign’s biggest bus.