Gary Gibbon
What’s Theresa May taking to Brussels?
Theresa May has gone with some kind of sweetener on EU citizens’ rights which she hopes will break the impasse.
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Iranian TV reacts to Boris Johnson’s Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe comment
The Prime Minister may have solved one problem by promoting Penny Mordaunt to replace Priti Patel as International Development Secretary. But the criticism of her foreign secretary Boris Johnson has continued. On Tuesday Mr Johnson suggested Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is in prison in Iran, was “training journalists”. Her family say she was there on holiday. Overnight…
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Gary Gibbon
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Nicola Sturgeon on Catalonia, Scots independence, Brexit and Boris
Scotland’s First Minister and SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, discusses the Catalonian referendum, Scottish independence, Brexit and Boris Johnson.
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Gary Gibbon
Boris Johnson: Blond Ambition – an introduction by Gary Gibbon
A film about Boris Johnson’s last year or so in office, Blond Ambition, is on Channel 4 on Sunday night at 10pm. It’s the product of some brilliant and dogged work by Lottie Gammon, chasing down Boris Johnson when he didn’t particularly want our cameras on his case. Do watch it if you get the…
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Gary Gibbon
Can Theresa May’s speech break the Brexit impasse?
There’s more than a little concern in No. 10 that Boris Johnson’s intervention in The Telegraph last week has rather raised expectations for Theresa May’s speech.
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Sir Craig Oliver: Boris Johnson is ‘reminding people that he has a lot of power’
We speak to David Cameron’s former director of communications Sir Craig Oliver about whether Boris Johnson’s article is an attempt to rally the troops for Mrs May ahead of her big Brexit speech next week, or a tilt at the leadership.
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Boris Johnson refuels speculation over Tory leadership bid
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has insisted he is “all behind Theresa for a glorious Brexit” – after his article about Britain’s future outside the EU that’s been widely seen as a Tory leadership challenge.
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Gary Gibbon
What is Boris up to?
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…
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Johnson challenged on UK hurricane response
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.
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Anger on Anguilla at UK hurricane response
We report from Anguilla: As the clear-up in the wake of Hurricane Irma continues, questions remain about the speed and size of Britain’s response. Dozens of police have been flown to devastated British territories in the Caribbean and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is about to see the relief effort first hand.
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Fallon: ‘No correlation between foreign policy and this appalling act of terrorism’
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon says Jeremy Corbyn is wrong to link British foreign policy to terrorism, and responds to previous comments from Boris Johnson, who once said that while the Iraq War “didn’t create the problem of murderous Islamic fundamentalists, the war has unquestionably sharpened the resentments felt by such people”.
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Boris’ sister Rachel Johnson joins Lib Dems to block Brexit
Boris Johnson has received a personal rebuff from his own sister after she dramatically joined the Liberal Democrats in a bid to block a hard Brexit.
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Boris cancels Moscow trip in Syria row
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”.
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Boris Johnson visits Israel and the Palestinian territories
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has begun a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
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Brexit trade deals
Boris Johnson has returned from his trip to Washington to make contact with the new administration fired up by their apparent enthusiasm for a trade deal with the UK.
