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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds an electric vehicle charging cable during a visit to the headquarters of Octopus Energy in London, Monday Oct. 5, 2020. They visited the startup company to promote the company's plan to create 1,000 new technology jobs across sites in London, Brighton, Warwick and Leicester, and a new tech hub in Manchester. (AP)

Build back greener: UK's Johnson pitches wind-driven recovery from pandemic

Johnson is under pressure over his handling of the pandemic as his government’s response has been cast by opponents as poorly organised

06 Oct 2020 9:49 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament in London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly defended his controversial plan to override sections of the Brexit deal that he negotiated with the European Union, arguing that the bloc has an 'extreme' interpretation of the treaty that could jeopardize the future of the U.K. (AP)

UK's Johnson faces rebellion within party over plan to break Brexit treaty

The EU has ramped up preparations for a no-deal Brexit, which would be chaotic for business, markets and nearly $1 trillion in annual trade

14 Sep 2020 3:55 PM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Britain left the now 27-nation EU on January 31, 2020, three-and-a-half years after the country narrowly voted to end more than four decades of membership.(via AFP)

Boris Johnson gives October 15 deadline for Brexit deal

The European Union, in turn, accuses Britain of failing to negotiate seriously

07 Sep 2020 9:59 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson sits in a Year 11 class , during a visit to Castle Rock school on the pupils' first day back, in Coalville, East Midlands, England. (AP)

Virus or not, Europe is bent upon reopening schools

While the US’ back-to-school saga has been politicized and chaotic, European governments have faced less of an uproar

27 Aug 2020 2:49 PM

Students hold placards as they protest outside the Department for Education in central London to protest against the downgrading of A-level results. AFP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | UK’s 'Fair Grades Matter' movement, where BoJo performs abysmally

What I would call the Fair Exam Grades Matter movement now took to the streets

24 Aug 2020 4:58 PM

Britain’s Finance minister Rishi Sunak said that hundreds of thousands of people have already lost their jobs, and sadly in the coming months many more will. (AP Photo)

UK economy slips into deepest recession with record 20.4% contraction

Today’s figures confirm that hard times are here, finance minister Rishi Sunak said

12 Aug 2020 4:21 PM

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Kishwar Desai | Boris toils for a slimmer nation; will Ghislaine sing on Andrew?

July 4 was our freedom day though the previous weekend, too, people broke free and thronged every beach or park they could find

06 Jul 2020 6:48 PM

An anti-racism protest with "All Black Lives UK" banner leading the way along the main shopping area in central London. AFP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | In a crisis, is Boris pushing the ‘coconuts’ forward?

The word ‘coconut’ is used to abuse people who are deemed to be ‘brown outside and white inside'

04 Jul 2020 2:18 AM

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‘Nonsense detector’ or ‘racism denier’?

Munira Mirza’s enquiry raises brows

20 Jun 2020 6:28 PM

An injured man is taken away by police after fights take place in Trafalgar Square. (AFP)

Far-right protesters cause mayhem in London, Johnson condemns ‘racist thuggery’

The far-right groups, describing themselves as patriots and chanting ‘England, England’, said they wanted to defend British culture

14 Jun 2020 9:57 AM

The lockdown is beginning to splinter with the cabinet issuing confusing instructions to citizens. AFP Photo

Kishwar Desai | Boris Johnson loses clout in Parliament

Having survived Covid, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson is going through an annihilation by politics

08 Jun 2020 6:18 PM

Number 10 special advisor Dominic Cummings leaves his residence in north London on May 27, 2020. AFP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | The curious friendship of Boris and Dominic

When Boris Johnson moved into 10 Downing Street, he hired Dominic Cummings as chief adviser, a post which gave him more clout over policy

30 May 2020 12:57 AM

People wear protective face masks as they walk down Whitehall in the Spring sunshine in central London. (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Everybody needs a Whitsun holiday while UK ponders visa rule changes

As the weeks have gone by, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks less and less in charge

27 May 2020 7:00 PM

United Kingdom government accused of coronavirus testing failures. (AFP Photo)

UK government accused of coronavirus testing failures

The UK authorities initially sought to trace and test everyone who had been in contact with people infected with the coronavirus

19 May 2020 3:52 PM

A woman runs across London Bridge, backdropped by Tower Bridge, as she exercises in central London. (AFP)

Work and exercise restrictions ease in England

The pandemic has killed more than 36,000 people in Britain, according to official statistics

13 May 2020 2:52 PM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that a mass vaccine for the novel coronavirus may be over a year away. (AP Photo)

Covid19 vaccine may never be found, warns UK PM Boris Johnson

A mass vaccine or treatment may be more than a year away, said Johnson

12 May 2020 4:13 PM

Ambulance and air ambulance crews wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) work to stabilise a patient with possible COVID-19 symptoms who was found unconscious having suffered a cardiac arrest while cycling in Botley, near Southampton, southern England. AFP Photo

Kishwar Desai: So many Indians found calling in NHS, so many devoted their lives

Many of those who died — Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis — were usually working beyond retirement age

11 May 2020 5:08 PM

Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson. (Handout image released by 10 Downing Street)

No end to lockdown yet: Boris Johnson

Britain has, however, announced a limited easing of restrictions as the death rate and hospital admissions keeps falling

11 May 2020 10:58 AM

File image of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AFP)

Boris Johnson: At low point, doctors prepared my death announcement

The prime minister returned to work on April 27, after recovering from coronavirus

05 May 2020 10:57 AM

n this file photo taken on March 7, 2020 Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson (left) with his partner Carrie Symonds attend the Six Nations international rugby union match between England and Wales at the Twickenham in west London. Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds have named their son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson in a tribute to their grandfathers and the doctors who helped save the prime minister's life. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy: Won’t Boris be on paternal leave after weeks off for coronavirus?

Boris is entitled to paternal leave of absence from his job

03 May 2020 3:44 PM

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On or off? Who's saying what over status of 2020 Tokyo Olympics

FIRST SALVO (1-0): RB Leipzig midfilder Marcel Sabitzer beats Tottenham Hotspur’s French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris all ends up for the team’s first goal. AFP Photo

Leipzig's date with UEFA Champions League quarter-finals

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Indian captain Virat Kohli catches a ball on day one of the second Test cricket match between New Zealand and India (AFP)

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