World Feb 8, 2021

U.K. plans annual vaccinations to fight new coronavirus strains

U.k. Health Minister Nadhim Zahawi has predicted annual vaccination drives similar to the program of injections given for influenza each year.

World / Politics Jan 9, 2021

Johnson needs to save the U.K. health service to save his career

The prime minister locked down England for a third time Monday as coronavirus infections pushed hospitals to the breaking point and the death toll rose above 75,000.

World Dec 25, 2020

How Brexit talks overcame suspicion, resentment and fish

At times, mutual suspicion and paranoia over listening devices made Brexit look like a chapter from the Cold War, all heightened by COVID-19 restrictions.

World Sep 24, 2020

Winter crisis plan to save U.K. jobs from virus announced

Subsidized wages and loans for businesses are part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's package.

Business | ANALYSIS Sep 8, 2020

Boris Johnson’s taste for Brexit danger could doom EU trade deal

For economists, business leaders and European Union officials, the question is whether to believe that he won't back down.

World / Politics May 17, 2019

Boris Johnson slim, trimmed and ready to fight for power

For a man who has made his name as a comical shambles, cracking jokes on talk-shows and scruffing up his famous blond mop, Boris Johnson is taking a deadly serious approach to his work. At 54, the former foreign secretary has lost weight, trimmed his ...

World / Politics Mar 9, 2019

U.K. dismisses EU offer on Brexit backstop as 'disappointing'

U.K. Cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom rejected the European Union's latest plan to break the Brexit deadlock, but said Parliament will be given more chances to vote on the deal if the bloc improves its "disappointing" offer before it's too late. Leadsom, leader of the House ...

World / Politics Nov 16, 2018

May vows to carry on as Brexit's hard-liners try to topple her

British Prime Minister Theresa May is defying demands to quit as she battles to keep control of her fractious government long enough to deliver a Brexit deal that has drawn ire from across the political spectrum. Facing a revolt over her proposed exit agreement with ...

World / Politics | ANALYSIS Jul 13, 2018

May on the ropes makes Europe wary of rejecting Brexit plan outright

The European Union is set to throw embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May a lifeline in Brexit talks because of concern that the biggest risk to getting a deal done is now whether she can cling to power. EU officials say negotiators won't reject outright ...

World / Politics | ANALYSIS Jul 10, 2018

British Prime Minister Theresa May plows on toward Brexit as she clings on to power following resignations of her ministers

British Prime Minister Theresa May looked likely to survive any attempt to oust her over the government's Brexit strategy for now, and is leaning on the biggest opposition party to help get the plan through parliament and counter a mutiny by a group of ...