New UK prime minister to be announced on 5th September as tax dominates contest
London, UKReuters Britain’s new prime minister will be announced on 5th September, with the first votes to begin eliminating candidates in a crowded and increasingly unpredictable and divisive contest to replace Boris Johnson coming this week. So far 11 candidates have thrown their hat in the ring to succeed Johnson as leader of the ruling […]
Candidates jostle to replace UK PM Johnson in packed race
London, UKReuters The contest to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gathered pace on Sunday as five more candidates declared their intention to run, with many pledging lower taxes and a clean start from Johnson’s scandal-ridden premiership. Johnson on Thursday said he would resign as prime minister, after lawmakers and cabinet colleagues rebelled over his […]
Updated: Boris Johnson quits as UK Prime Minister, dragged down by scandals
Updated 3.25pm, 8th July, 2022(AEST)London, UKReuters Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British Prime Minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would stay on until his successor was chosen. Bowing to the inevitable as more than 50 government ministers and aides […]
In the last-chance saloon, Boris Johnson survives as UK PM for now
London, UKReuters For a man who long set his sights on becoming Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson came dangerously close on Monday to being ousted by lawmakers tired of defending him and faces a battle to win back the confidence of his party and country. He survives, just, for now. But he is deeply wounded […]
After “partygate”, UK PM Johnson faces confidence vote
London, UK Reuters Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a confidence vote later on Monday, after a growing number of lawmakers in the governing Conservative Party questioned the British leader’s flagging authority over the “partygate” scandal. Johnson, appointed Prime Minister in 2019, has been under growing pressure, unable to move on from a report that […]
Updated: British lawmaker stabbed to death in “terrorist incident”
Updated 7.15pm (ADST)Leigh-in-Sea, EnglandReuters British lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death in an Essex church on Friday by an assailant who lunged at him as he met voters, in what police said was a terrorist attack. Amess, 69, from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, was knifed repeatedly in the attack at about midday […]
One in three in UK say Islam threatens British culture – report
RNS A new report finds that about 35 per cent of British people think that Islam is a threat to the British way of life in the wake of 2017 terrorist attacks and that anti-Semitism on the political left is an increasing issue in the UK. The anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate’s annual The State of […]