Crisis–what crisis? Boris Johnson frames shortages as ‘sign of economic robustness’
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 strain you’d expect from […]
Johnson downplays government responsibility for fuel shortages
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 […]
Ahead of COP26, Johnson has sent out the right message to the world
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 […]
Wishart: ‘Nonsense of a conference recess has surely run its course’
“How dare anybody even start to refer to them as a bunch of Muppets.”
Johnson: ‘Blow out the candles of a world on fire’
“We believe that someone else will clear up the mess, because that is what someone else has always done.”
Boris Johnson to hold talks with Biden amid trade deal stalemate
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 in light of China’s […]
Can you name the new cabinet?
How many members of the new cabinet can you name?
Boris Johnson has removed the deadwood – but all his opponents as well
What does Boris Johnson’s new-look cabinet say about his ambitions for power?
Party leaders clash over universal credit cuts
Keir Starmer called the plan to remove the universal credit uplift “unfair” today during PMQs.
Johnson reshuffles the cabinet
Prime minister Boris Johnson has today undertaken a cabinet reshuffle. So far as many as 12 cabinet ministers have changed roles. The most significant change has occurred at the Foreign Office where Dominic Raab has been replaced as foreign secretary by Liz Truss. Truss is herself replaced at International Trade, by Ann Marie Trevelyan, who […]
