Prime minister Boris Johnson and US president Joe Biden will today hold talks at the White House. This comes the day after the US announced they would remove travel restrictions on UK citizens from November. Last week the US, UK and Australia announced a landmark security pact to share nuclear-submarine technology with Australia in light…
Prime minister Boris Johnson and US president Joe Biden will today hold talks at the White House. This comes the day after the US announced they would remove travel restrictions on UK citizens from November. Last week the US, UK and Australia announced a landmark security pact to share nuclear-submarine technology with Australia in light…
Boris Johnson has just reshuffled his cabinet, bringing some new faces to the fore. But how many members of the new cabinet can you name? Good luck! The post Can you name the new cabinet? appeared first on Politics.co.uk.
When Dominic Cummings announced his intended revolution in the corridors of Whitehall at the start of Boris Johnson’s reign, he promised to remove the shirkers and slackers, the bureaucrats and bores who had dogged British politics for too long. The new cabinet was to possess the greatest minds in parliament, who would be able to…
Labour leader Keir Starmer called the government’s plan to remove the universal credit uplift “unfair” today in the Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions. Johnson largely deflected from the topic, saying the Conservatives are “encouraging measures to see their [low paid people] wages rise.” Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster leader, pointed out that, coupled with…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly poised to reshuffle his Cabinet as early as today. At yesterday evening’s Covid briefing the PM refused to answer a question on whether he would rule out an imminent reshuffle. A Government source has now confirmed to The Telegraph that the highly speculated shake-up will take place. It has…
Pinocchio is the story of a little puppet whose nose grows every time he lies. We at Politics.co.uk wonder how large Boris Johnson’s nose would be by now if he was afflicted by a similar condition. His latest u-turn has been to increase National Insurance contributions, despite the Conservatives pledging in their 2019 manifesto that…
Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster leader, called the planned National Insurance rise a “regressive Tory poll tax” during Prime Minister’s Questions today in the Commons. The planned 1.25 percentage point rise to National Insurance in order to raise money for the NHS and adult social care dominated the debate. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said:…
