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FORMER British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Thursday turned away from a polling station after forgetting to bring a photo ID. The PA news agency understands Johnson was told by polling station staff he would not be able to vote without proving his identity. The requirement to provide photo …

BORIS JOHNSON made the move as he hit out at an investigation by the House of Commons’ privileges committee, which is examining whether the ex-prime minister knowingly misled parliament about COVID rule-breaking parties held in Downing Street. The resignation of Johnson, the Tory MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, will …

Former prime minister Boris Johnson Saturday returned to Britain from a holiday to launch an audacious political comeback, as Conservative leadership rival Rishi Sunak reached the minimum threshold to contest the UK’s top job. Johnson cut short a Caribbean trip to join the race to replace outgoing leader Liz Truss, …

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of United Kingdom has presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with an award to honor his leadership at a ceremony in Downing Street, in which Zelensky appeared virtually. The award on Tuesday, July 26 from Johnson comes as Ukraine led by Zelenskyy continues to battle Russia who have made …

On Friday, Conservative legislator Bob Neill sent a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson, while another resigned from his position as an aide to the British interior minister. The moves occurred as pressure mounted on Prime Minister to quit for illegal parties at his Downing Street mansion amid COVID-19 …

British former Prime Minister Tony Blair, on Monday, said Britain was in a dangerous mess and that neither his own Labour party nor Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party deserved to win a Dec. 12 election. Britain is holding an election three years ahead of schedule because parliament was deadlocked …

Resignation and defection are forcing Jeremy Corbyn to confront two scourges hounding his Labour Party as it tries to unseat UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson: anti-Semitism and Brexit. Labour is hoping to regain power for the first time in nearly a decade when voters go to the polls on December …

The month-long suspension of the British parliament ordered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in an apparent bid to stop MPs blocking his Brexit strategy will begin late Monday, his spokesman said. “Parliament will be prorogued at the close of business today,” the spokesman said, using the parliamentary term for the …

Around a dozen British Conservative MPs will formally throw their hats into the ring on Monday in the fight to replace Theresa May as party leader and Prime Minister, with her former foreign secretary Boris Johnson seen as the runaway favourite. Nominations to succeed May — who resigned on Friday …

New British foreign minister and top Brexit backer Boris Johnson pledged Monday Britain would continue to play a leading role in Europe as he met his European Union peers for the first time. “We have to give effect to the will of the people and leave the European Union but… …