Calls for Johnson to quit grow louder
The backbenchers from different generations and wings of the party took the number publicly demanding his departure to 13.
Boris Johnson
Can BoJo the rule breaker come back from the brink?
I’ve never interviewed a wittier, more verbally clever and naturally charming person as Boris Johnson. How can he be so smart and yet so dumb?
Besieged Boris bails out of state visit to Australia
Boris Johnson has been forced to cancel a visit to Australia as he battles for his political life over the ‘Partygate’ scandal.
Tally of Johnson parties now six
Boris Johnson’s former senior adviser says investigators have pictures of the prime minister at lockdown-breaking parties.
It’s dangerous to pretend Boris Johnson is a president
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s claim that replacing Boris Johnson would require an election undermines parliament’s supremacy.
Downing St party photos key to inquiry
Boris Johnson apologises for ‘failures of leadership and judgment’ in allowing lockdown-breaching parties.
PM pushes on with agenda
The revelations of Downing Street parties during the pandemic have posed the greatest threat to Boris Johnson’s leadership since he became Prime Minister in 2019.
Stars align to keep Boris safe
Johnson will ride out ‘Partygate’. No matter how elegantly excoriating Labour leader Kier Starmer is in parliament, Boris isn’t going anywhere.
Boris and Carrie: ‘It’s self-preservation’
As political and personal lines blur, Carrie Johnson is either the queen bee of No 10, or the spider at the centre of the Downing Street web, depending on how you look at it.
Boris needs to can tax rise to save his skin
The editorial of The Spectator charts a path to survival for the British Prime Minister.
Stand by me, Johnson tells MPs
The British Prime Minister tells Tory MPs he has received ‘bad advice’ and warns that deposing him could result in a general election.
Boris faces police interview over parties
The senior civil servant who is overseeing an inquiry triggered the formal investigation when she handed evidence to detectives.
No. 10’s culture problems all stem from Boris
Ministerial accountability is poorly defined in Britain, but sacrificing staff to save your own skin is an evasion of duty.
Banish Boris? It means off to the polls
Boris Johnson’s allies warn any successor would have to call a general election if the PM is removed from office.
Boris loses minister over Covid loan fraud
In a new blow for the UK PM, Theodore Agnew dramatically walked out after the Treasury revealed £4.3bn in fraudulent loan payments.
Scotland Yard to probe Boris bashes at No. 10
London’s Metropolitan Police Service has said it will launch a criminal investigation into the Downing Street lockdown parties.
Pentagon puts 8500 troops on alert over Ukraine
The United States has placed 8500 troops on ‘heightened alert’ as Boris Johnson warns any Russian invasion would be ‘painful, violent and bloody’.
Johnson still believes he broke no rules
Braced for a verdict on parties at 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson is determined to fight on and shore up support.
Has Boris Johnson lost his political superpowers?
Pursued by angry MPs and a wily Dominic Cummings, and paranoid about his own staff, a volatile Boris Johnson is approaching the cliff edge.
Boris beefs up team to sandbag leadership
The British PM is using the group of lieutenants who helped him to win in 2019 to record the position of every Tory MP.
Mixing work with grog can leave a nasty hangover
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s troubles reflect a broader issue on drinking in the office. Suggestions: don’t ban, don’t binge and don’t badger.
Rebel threat to call cops on whip
Cabinet ministers have condemned the Tory rebels, known as the pork pie plotters, as ‘attention-seeking schoolchildren’.
‘For God’s sake, go’: more Tories turn on Boris
Conservative MP Christian Wakeford dramatically crosses the floor while former senior minister David Davis draws on tumultuous time in British history to urge Boris Johnson to quit.
AUKMIN meeting will set strategic agenda for 2022
Stronger British involvement in the region is in the national interest.
Boris denies lying about party
But the British Prime Minister ducked questions about whether he would resign if an internal inquiry establishes that he did lie.
Boris’s woes grow with rebel MPs’ ‘pork pie putsch’
Tory whips fear more than 54 MPs may submit letters of no confidence tomorrow, triggering a vote of no confidence in the PM amid fury over illegal Downing St parties.
Johnson lied to parliament about party, says Cummings
The prime minister’s former adviser says he discussed the garden party with him and told him: ‘You’ve got to get a grip of this madhouse’.
Boris’s other disaster: his green-energy illusions
‘Party-gate’ is proving so damaging because it has landed on an electorate already exasperated with the PM over soaring energy costs. His woes are a warning to conservatives.
Boris ‘broke the law’: Labour
The Opposition Leader, who is surging in the opinion polls, also accused the Prime Minister of lying to parliament.
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