Boris Johnson conference speech: LIVE 10:30am – After Starmer’s successful show in Brighton last week, can Boris beat him? Usually parties get a bounce after their conferences, but after the infighting at the Labour conference and misplaced positivity in the face of a tough winter at the Conservative conference, both parties might feel like they could…
The £20 a week uplift in Universal Credit introduced in April 2020 will end today. The top-up was intended as a temporary measure to help people on low incomes during the pandemic, but many have urged the government not to scrap it. The exact date the money will stop being paid will vary depending on…
Prime minister Boris Johnson has said that the UK’s ongoing labour shortages are a ‘sign of economic robustness’. When asked about ongoing supply issues in an interview with the BBC Radio 4 Today program this morning, he said, ”what you’re seeing” across the UK and the world “is the stresses and train you’d expect from…
The Prime Minister is cut the £20 Universal Credit from this Wednesday and he has been accused of “abandoning millions to hunger and hardship.” Soaring energy bills, food prices are… The post Boris is ‘abandoning millions to hunger and hardship with his eyes wide open’ as £20 universal credit to be scrapped appeared first on…
It seems that Boris Johnson does not care about those who are suffering with cancer or indeed those who have died from this awful disease. This comes as the Johnson… The post Boris has said ‘the most chilling words ever spoken from a Prime Minister’ as he said ‘never mind cancer outcomes’ appeared first on…
The Prime Minister has admitted on Sunday that he has known for months that haulage industry was in trouble and suggested the supply chain could last until Christmas. Boris Johnson… The post Boris admits he knew about HGV shortages for months and warns they could continue until Christmas appeared first on London Business News |…
With the Conservative party conference opening in Manchester today, Johnson gave the usual pre-conference interview to Andrew Marr this morning. The political backdrop to this interview and the Conservative conference more broadly is widely understood to hold several problems for our PM. He is currently grappling with shortages across the economy as well as the…
Boris Johnson is right that we must manage expectations, but also to use the opportunity to tout Britain’s green business credentials With just weeks to go before the COP26 summit in Glasgow, the prime minister couldn’t have articulated better how the world should be thinking about climate change. His choice of the phrase a “turning…
Pete Wishart, the SNP MP for Perth & North Perthshire, criticised parliament’s imminent recess, saying: “As this house abandons its station to go to the conference halls and seaside resorts, there’s universal credit cuts, energy prices going through the roof, a CO2 crisis, driver shortages, farming chaos, fishing chaos, export crisis, the ending of…
Boris Johnson called for countries to “blow out the candles of a world on fire” during his UN assembly speech in New York. Speaking during a debate on climate change, Johnson said: “We still cling with parts of our minds to the infantile belief that the world was made for our gratification and pleasure, and…
