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    Johnson’s parliamentary grilling stirs both pleasure and pain

    19 Sep 2020

    In these desperate times, in which the populist virus is wreaking havoc with the world, we must take little pleasures wherever we can find them. Like the little pleasure I take seeing Boris Johnson stumble, splutter and “er, ah, um” his way through his encounter with the Liaison Committee. It is a pleasure born of the fact that the prime ministerial grilling by select committee chairmen and women was my idea, many moons ago.

    UK says people should work from home if they can as COVID-19 spreads

    22 Sep 2020

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Tuesday advise that people should work from home if they can as part of a package of measures aimed at halting the swiftly accelerating second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

    Johnson’s COVID-19 journey has echoes for Trump

    06 Oct 2020

    When Boris Johnson announced on March 27 that he’d tested positive for COVID-19, Brits were in shock, much as Americans were on Friday morning when they heard President Donald Trump was infected.

    UK prefers to save jobs over tax rises as COVID-19 hits economy

    06 Oct 2020

    Britain will prioritise trying to save jobs over tax rises while the COVID-19 pandemic batters the economy, though record borrowing and a $2.6 trillion debt pile cannot be sustained for ever, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday.

    Johnson’s wind farm pledge is mostly hot air

    07 Oct 2020

    Boris Johnson’s claim that the UK is building back greener – based on a mere £160m additional for offshore wind – is very much overblown. At the last general election, the Green Party called

    UK, EU leaders urge intensified negotiation on elusive trade deal

    03 Oct 2020

    The prime minister of Britain and the chief of the European Union told their chief negotiators on Saturday to get back together and push “intensively” to strike a post-Brexit trade deal before time runs out in a matter of weeks.

    If the government believes in ‘levelling up’, stop blaming individuals for making the ‘wrong choices’

    11 Sep 2020

    There’s good reason why Boris Johnson has made it his main mission to ensure schools re-open, he knows the importance of education for young people’s life chances.

    Stepping up

    11 Sep 2020

    French President Emmanuel Macron has assumed the mantle of peacemaker in the absence of the leaders of Germany, Britain and the US. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to stand down next year she appears to be avoiding involvement.

    British PM Boris Johnson cancels trip to India due to coronavirus worries

    19 Apr 2021

    Johnson had already postponed the trip once from January, when COVID-19 infections were high in Britain. Infections in India are currently surging as the country endures a second wave of the virus.

    Johnson’s language was crass in crucial meeting

    27 Apr 2021

    It’s unscientific and unfair, but journalists, like anyone, often have to form a judgement about the accuracy of something based on whether it has “the ring of truth” about it, based on past experience, known patterns of behaviour and the credibility of the

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