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Brexit chaosThe Times
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, north east England, Monday Aug. 5, 2019. Boris Johnson says he will pump an additional 1.8 billion pounds ($2.2 billion) into the National Health Service, feeding speculation he wants an early election to bolster his one-seat majority in Parliament and support for his Brexit plans. (Darren Staples/Pool via AP)

Johnson prepared to defy vote

Boris Johnson would refuse to resign on losing confidence vote so he could force through no-deal on October 31.

Steven Swinford and Henry Zeffman
British parliamentThe Times
Liberal Democrat MP Ed Davey (C-L) and Liberal Democrat candidate Jane Dodd (C-R) celebrate after winning the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election at the Royal Welsh Showground on August 2, 2019 in Builth Wells, United Kingdom. - Britain's Boris Johnson lost his first major test as prime minister on August 2 when his candidate lost to a pro-EU rival in a by-election that could narrow his parliamentary majority to one. Official results showed the European-supporting Liberal Democrats' candidate Jane Dodd defeating Chris Davies from Johnson's ruling Conservative party by 13,826 to 12,401 votes. (Photo by Isabel INFANTES / AFP)

Tory majority cut to one

The Liberal Democrats yesterday cut Boris Johnson’s working majority in the House of Commons to just one.

Kate Devlin
COMMENTARYThe Times
Margaret Thatcher, left and Boris Johnson

Boris takes tip from Iron Lady

As Boris Johnson prepares the biggest government-funded PR campaign since the Second World War he has told civil servants to use a 1980s campaign.

Francis Elliott
The Times
LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 24: (EDITORS NOTE: IMAGE CONTAINS PROFANITY) Protestors are seen in Whitehall after Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives back at Downing Street on July 24, 2019 in London, England. Boris Johnson, MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, was elected leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party yesterday receiving 66 percent of the votes cast by the Party members. He will take the office of Prime Minister this afternoon after outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May takes questions in the House of Commons for the last time. on July 24, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

EU: Boris is clever but unhelpful

The chief EU negotiator praised Boris Johnson as ‘clever’ but another key figure says he has increased the risk of a no-deal Brexit.

BRUNO WATERFIELD and OLIVER MOODY
NEW PMWorld
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II welcomes newly elected leader of the Conservative party Boris Johnson during an audience at Buckingham Palace, London, Wednesday July 24, 2019, where she invited him to become Prime Minister and form a new government. (Victoria Jones/Pool via AP)

Boris gets royal seal of approval

Boris Johnson has been appointed British PM by the Queen, and in his first speech declared Brexit would go ahead “no ifs, ands or buts” by October 31.

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