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In a brief statement issued via Twitter after a series of ministerial changes were announced by Number 10, the PM said the government would “work tirelessly to unite and level up the whole country”. The first casualty of the reshuffle on Wednesday was now-former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson. He had quite …

Johnson began culling his cabinet on Wednesday afternoon, letting go of Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, and Conservative Party co-Chair Amanda Milling in rapid succession. With the outright sackings done, Johnson traveled from Westminster to Downing Street to begin the rehiring. Relieved of …

“The PM will today conduct a reshuffle to put in place a strong and united team to Build Back Better from the pandemic,” read a statement from Downing Street on Wednesday, adding that Johnson would be “appointing ministers this afternoon with a focus on uniting and levelling up the whole …

On Tuesday evening, Trinidadian-born rapper Nicki Minaj put on a British accent and released a bizarre audiotape to Twitter, in which she claimed to be from the UK and offered to send Prime Minister Boris Johnson her work “since you don’t know much about me.” Minaj adds that she’s a …

Earlier on Sunday, Taliban fighters made their way into Kabul, which had remained the now-defunct Afghan government’s last stronghold, after a largescale offensive in recent weeks saw the radical group seizing all other major urban areas in the country and encircling the capital. The gains by the militants occurred amid …

Johnson supports plans to allow thousands of foreign delegates, who have received China’s Sinovac or Sinopharm vaccines, or Russia’s Sputnik V, to attend the COP26 climate-change summit in Glasgow in November without quarantining upon arrival, the Times reports. Only the vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca/Oxford, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson …

For many within the UK, Brexit is done and dusted. This is not the case for Northern Ireland, where the issue remains at the forefront of public and political debate. The topic under discussion is the Northern Ireland Protocol, which British PM Boris Johnson signed as part of the EU …

Boris Johnson was a posh-boy floppy-haired joke to many of his fellow journalists when he was ‘on the road’ for The Times and The Daily Telegraph a quarter-century-or-so ago.  Many senior editors in London and their proprietors, though, rather enjoyed Boris’s bumptious bonhomie and his pithy turn of phrase, and …

Attorneys general from seven states announced the deal on Wednesday, saying that Johnson & Johnson will pay $5 billion and distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen will pay about $21 billion combined. The money will be paid out over time – nine years for Johnson & Johnson and 18 years …

Mere hours after Britain’s nightclubs reopened on Monday, Johnson blindsided the public with an announcement that proof of vaccination will soon be needed to enter these establishments, with proof of a negative test no longer sufficient for entry. Protesters had already taken to the streets of London to demand a …