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Theresa May wraps ‘suicide vest’ around U.K. over Brexit: Boris Johnson
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal wraps "a suicide vest around the British constitution" and hands the detonator to the European Union, former Foreign Minister Boris Johnson said in an article in the Mail on Sunday newspaper. His comments that drew strong criticism. Johnson pressed his ...
Britain's Boris Johnson splits from wife; tabloid blames infidelity
Britain's former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is tipped as a future prime minister, revealed Friday that he has separated from his wife and the couple are getting a divorce. The 54-year-old, who quit his role in July in opposition to the government's plan for ...
Two pioneers in the new politics
Britain's Boris Johnson and America's Alex Jones work to create and further the themes and dramas of contemporary populism.
Poll finds many Britons reject May's Brexit strategy; some turn to Boris Johnson, far-right
Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than a third of voters would support a new right-wing political party committed to quitting the bloc, according to a new poll. May's political vulnerability was ...
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 ...
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigned Monday, adding to divisions over Brexit that threaten to tear apart Prime Minister Theresa May's government. May's office said in a terse statement that the prime minister had accepted Johnson's resignation and would name a replacement soon. Johnson, one of ...
Johnson uses colorful language to make point about May's latest Brexit plan
British Foreign Secretary (foreign minister) Boris Johnson strongly criticized Prime Minister Theresa May's latest Brexit proposal in typically colorful terms before agreeing with his colleagues to back the compromise Friday, reports said. Johnson, a leading supporter of a decisive break by Britain from the European ...
May asks for 'trust' with Cabinet at crunch time for Brexit issue
Prime Minister Theresa May faces a crunch week for her leadership and Brexit plan, with ministers and backbenchers in her Conservative Party feuding over Britain's future ties to the European Union. May issued a plea for unity in an opinion piece in the Sunday Times ...
British tourists kidnapped in famed Congo wildlife park are freed
Two British tourists who were kidnapped in Congo have been freed, the U.K. government and Congolese park officials said Sunday. Their vehicle was attacked on Friday in the Virunga National Park in North Kivu province, a famed haven for gorillas and other endangered species. Their park ...
Russian envoy in London asks for meet with British foreign secretary to discuss poisoning fallout
Russia's ambassador to Britain has requested a meeting with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to discuss the fallout from last month's poisoning of a former spy in the English city of Salisbury, the Russian Embassy said Saturday. "We believe that it is high time to arrange ...
Chemical arms watchdog snubs Russia bid to join spy poisoning probe
An international chemical weapons watchdog rebuffed Russia's request Wednesday to join Britain's investigation of the nerve-agent poisonings of an ex-spy and his daughter in England. Undeterred, Moscow next plans to take its denials of involvement to the U.N. Security Council. Britain said Russia's proposal for ...
Britain warned Russia on Tuesday of a robust response if the Kremlin was behind a mysterious illness that has struck down a former double agent convicted of betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson named Sergei Skripal, once a colonel in ...
