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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

8 Jun 2020 6:18 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (C) takes part in an induction session in the gymnasium with year sevens as he visits Castle Rock school, Coalville, central England. (AFP)

Europe is going back to school despite recent virus surge

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

27 Aug 2020 2:52 PM IST

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...

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

24 Aug 2020 4:58 PM IST

Britains 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 recession with record 20.4% contraction, job...

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

12 Aug 2020 4:28 PM IST

Britains 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 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...

14 Sept 2020 3:49 PM IST

Britains 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)

UK will quit Brexit talks if no deal by October 15: Boris Johnson

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

7 Sept 2020 9:59 AM IST

Boris Johnson not only failed to be consistent protecting the wrongdoer one day and abandoning him the next, he then donned ashes and sackcloth and became an enthusiast for banning second jobs for MPs. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Post sleaze' row, MPs frosty with Boris; re-writing'...

Boris Johnson, who was unbeatable and riding high four weeks ago, cannot do anything right any more

22 Nov 2021 4:24 AM IST

Britains 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)

Kishwar Desai | Patterson row showed power of press, forced Boris to...

The sharp reaction has shown that no matter how popular the PM, the British people will not take corrupt conduct from...

7 Nov 2021 11:55 PM IST

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

Boris Johnson suffers humiliating defeat in UK special election

A no-confidence vote takes place if 15% of Conservative MPs (54) write to the chair of the so-called 1922 committee,...

17 Dec 2021 1:57 PM IST

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo: PTI)

British PM Boris Johnson says UK and India are natural partners

Johnson said that over the coming decade, India and the UK will continue to deepen their bonds

14 Dec 2021 11:25 AM IST

The Indian Army Corps of Signals contingent led by Captain Tanya Shergil marches during the 71st Republic Day Parade at Rajpath in New Delhi (Photo: 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...

7 Jan 2021 4:52 AM IST

No wonder Britains 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...

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

31 March 2021 7:25 AM IST