The Latest Breaking News from Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson apologises to MPs but says he didn’t know he was breaking the law

The Prime Minister said his apology is ‘wholehearted’.

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2022

Boris Johnson fails to win over Partygate critics with apology to Commons

‘Not worthy of great office he holds’: Senior Conservative backbencher calls for PM to go

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2022

Boris Johnson’s tenure is a sad indictment of the Tory party

Letters: Are Conservative MPs really telling us that there is no one in the party with more integrity and empathy to lead the country, asks Bernie Evans. Plus letters from Dr Colin J Smith, Michael Mansfield QC and Laurie and Susan Smith

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2022

Boris Johnson offers 'wholehearted apology' to House of Commons after Partygate fine

'As soon as I received the notice I acknowledged the hurt and the anger'

Wales Online · Apr 19, 2022

Boris Johnson's bad behaviour: how declining trust in the prime minister affects trust in British democracy

A seemingly endless cycle of scandals has come to define Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister. This has peaked in recent months with the revelations about lockdown parties in Downing Street and Johnson being fined by police for his attendance.

The Conversation · Apr 19, 2022

Boris Johnson’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda ‘contravenes Geneva Convention'

A UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has been decried by NGOs as well as the UN refugee agency, which has criticised the plan to relocate migrants as “contrary to the letter and spirit of the Refugee Convention”. FRANCE 24 spoke to Sciences Po university’s François Gemenne, an…

France 24 · Apr 19, 2022

Anti-vaxxers spark security alert as Boris Johnson blocked from getting into Commons

They pounded on the vehicle's bonnet and windscreen, accusing him of hitting Piers Corbyn, a leading Antivaxxer and brother of Jeremy Corbyn, with his car

Daily Mirror · Apr 19, 2022

MPs to vote on whether Johnson should be investigated for ‘misleading Parliament’

Back in 2010, Apple had a problem. The company was taking a kicking in the media and from angry customers because of a minor flaw in its brand new iPhone 4: if you held the phone the wrong way, it lost signal. The brouhaha was even conferred with the requisite…

Evening Standard · Apr 19, 2022

Johnson to face Commons vote on Thursday over partygate – what you need to know

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle granted Sir Keir Starmer the opportunity to table a motion for a debate and vote over the partygate row.

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2022

Boris Johnson boasted about ignoring parking fines: ‘What did I care?’

‘I let them pile in drifts’, Johnson wrote in unearthed passage – as minister compares Partygate fine to parking offence

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2022