Boris Johnson

Friday, Oct 22, 2021 | Last Update : 01:38 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Was it cruel? Why Gavin had to go in Boris’ shuffle

Gavin Williamson then supported Boris Johnson for the leadership of the party and was rewarded by BoJo with the education portfolio

18 Sep 2021 2:20 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AFP Photo)

AA Edit | Johnson eyes re-election

Hints of a Tory meritocracy are to be seen as two women and two from ethnic minorities are in four seats of power

17 Sep 2021 3:17 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson listens to apprentice Amy Gray during a visit to a British Gas training academy in Leicestershire, England, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021.(AP)

UK approves vaccines for 12-15s, aims to avoid lockdowns

The chief medical officers said Monday that vaccination would help limit transmission of the virus in schools

14 Sep 2021 3:09 AM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP Photo)

Britain to convene G7 meeting on Afghanistan

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will convene a meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven nations on Tuesday

23 Aug 2021 1:12 AM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he wants the last stage of the lockdown roadmap to be "irreversible" and has previously dubbed July 19 as "terminus day". (AFP)

UK PM Boris Johnson to set out plans for end of lockdown on July 19

UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid will announce the plans for an end to all legal lockdown restrictions from July 19 to Parliament

05 Jul 2021 5:02 PM

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (AFP Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo, Dombo & Carrie: The ‘weird’ trio at 10 Downing St

One assumed at the time that Dombo was part of all these plans and failures as he was BoJo’s right-hand man

19 Jun 2021 7:16 AM

The ceremony on the Bank Holiday weekend had only a few family members attending — amid claims that even the Prime Minister’s children from his previous marriages/relationships were not invited. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Canny Carrie’s thrifty choice; a princess by any other name

Already there is talk that the Freedom Day may be shifted to July 5, so it is getting more and more difficult to plan too far in advance

07 Jun 2021 1:32 AM

Johnson, 56, and 33-year-old Symonds, an environmental advocate, announced their engagement in February 2020. (Photo: File/AP)

UK PM Boris Johnson marries fiancee Carrie Symonds in private ceremony

The Sun said senior staff in Johnson's 10 Downing St. office were unaware of the wedding plans

30 May 2021 2:52 PM

BoJo was sanctioned for columns he wrote in the Daily Telegraph likening Muslim ladies wearing burqas to letter boxes with round tops and slits below and then to Balaclavaed bank robbers. (Jessica TAYLOR / various sources / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Does UK have ‘institutional racism’? The debate still on

In all the ups and downs and instances of that episode, it was never pointed out that 13 current Labour MPs are Muslims

29 May 2021 1:50 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (Photo: File/PTI)

Sunanda K Datta Ray | Amid pandemic, Britain, EU eye India trade deals

India desperately needs the emergency medical aid that is pouring in from several richer countries

12 May 2021 12:28 AM

Ms Symonds is accused, apart from crony appointments of interventions in policy areas that affect the country, decisions that very many Conservatives and people in government are convinced that BoJo would not have taken had it not been for her prevalent influence. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Is Carrie, UK’s First Girlfriend, the real driver of BoJo’s govt?

It is a fact that she has packed the staff and advisory phalanx of the PM’s office with her friends and people she agrees with politically

08 May 2021 12:00 AM

This is the second time in three months that the British PM has cancelled his visit to India. (Photo: AFP)

Boris Johnson cancels his visit to India

India on UK's red list, 103 cases of Indian variant had been identified in the UK

20 Apr 2021 1:23 AM

No wonder Britain’s response was limited to grieving rhetoric when Beijing imposed sanctions on five ruling Conservative Party MPs, two peers, a barrister and an academic. (AFP file photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Weak Britain reluctant to confront aggressive China

Ramping up criticism of Beijing not only risks deterring future Chinese investment but could undermine British businesses in China

31 Mar 2021 7:25 AM

Now the news that our vaccine supply may be interrupted because the new wave in India will impact vaccine exports to the UK has spread gloom. (Photo: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | India wave hits UK's vax drive, amid adulation for Poonawala

India was headlined on the front page — fortunately, in a way, it was a compliment, not a criticism

29 Mar 2021 4:01 AM

There are other ways in which BoJo’s government behaves in an unsurprising manner. (Photo: AFP)

BoJo facing flak over ‘legal’ graft, dodging of tax & the ‘nanny state’

Boris Johnson govt has, because of the Covid-19 crisis, done some peculiar things for a Conservative Party to have contemplated or proposed

27 Mar 2021 4:46 AM

Priti Patel, United Kingdom home secretary (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | How to apply for a job to home secy of Blunderland!

I guarantee Pritiji, these thoughts of yours which I have humbly attempted to put into words will get you to be PM

13 Feb 2021 12:00 AM

There is no harm in saying pass this year. Since this is an unusual period for all of the world, the pandemic provides us a perfectly good reason to not go scouting for a dignitary after the British leader has been obliged to drop out. (Representational Image:PTI)

AA Edit | Scale down the parade

It may be recalled that in the years 1952, 1953, and 1966 no invitation was extended to an international dignitary to be chief guest

07 Jan 2021 4:52 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves at the media as he arrives back in Downing Street after attending the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session at the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. (AP/Matt Dunham)

Following India protests closely, says UK after Boris Johnson gaffe

The gaffe occurred during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons on Wednesday

11 Dec 2020 11:54 AM

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Boris’ fumbling holds lessons for the world

While British waters are much richer in fish than the seas surrounding Europe, British trawlers make their money selling to European nations

10 Dec 2020 12:05 AM

Britain will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than its previous commitment, the prime minister said Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. Boris Johnson made the pledge as part of plans for a "green industrial revolution" that he claims could create up to 250,000 jobs in energy, transport and technology. (AP)

UK to ban gasoline, diesel car sales by 2030 as part of green plan

The environmental push is part of Johnson's efforts to move beyond the tremors of the coronavirus pandemic and Britain's exit from the EU

18 Nov 2020 11:00 AM

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