Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson faces a mounting Brexiteer rebellion if the government pushes ahead with plans to extend legislation giving it emergency powers to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Prominent Brexiteers Peter Bone and Desmond Swayne have warned the prime minister could face significant opposition to extend to his emergency coronavirus legislation. The laws, introduced in April […]

The day before the “rule of six” rule came into force, Carl Heneghan, a professor of evidence-based medicine, and Tom Jefferson, a research fellow, both from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, wrote an opinion piece for the Spectator, calling for the rule to be “binned”. The Daily Telegraph repeated Heneghan and Jefferson’s assertion that “life […]

“Regulations….are not to be regarded as unlawful on the grounds of any incompatibility or inconsistency with any relevant domestic or international law”– Clause 45 (2) (a) on state aid in the Internal Market Bill It already seems an age ago, but when I first heard Boris “Moonshot ” Johnson used the phrase “the rule of […]

A video has emerged of Rory Stewart being ‘proven right’ on claims that Boris Johnson pursued a policy of herd immunity during the initial phases of the coronavirus outbreak. In footage recorded back in March, Stewart said the government had been pursuing a strategy of herd immunity and that it was the wrong decision. “What’s being done in […]

TIM WALKER issues a challenge to prime minister Boris Johnson. As Boris Johnson tries to portray himself as the man to lead the whole of the United Kingdom, Mandrake challenges him to pay a campaign visit to Liverpool, which understandably feels it has no relationship whatsoever with him. When he became PM, Merseyside MP Maria […]

Boris Johnson broke ministerial rules when he took on his Daily Telegraph column after quitting as foreign secretary, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments has said. The committee, known as Acoba, said it was “unacceptable” that he signed a contract with the Telegraph on July 12 – three days after quitting as foreign secretary – […]

Boris Johnson is to face investigation by an independent panel following complaints that his comments on the burka breached the Conservative Party’s code of conduct. It is understood that the process is being triggered automatically after the receipt of a number of complaints over the former foreign secretary’s comparison of Muslim women in face-covering veils […]

Boris Johnson has been asked to apologise for his remarks comparing women in burkas to “letter boxes”. We’ve been here before As recently as March, the political Timothy Lumsden was forced to eat humble pie after referring in the Commons to his then Labour opposite number Emily Thornberry as the “Lady Baroness whatever” – an […]

Boris Johnson has come under fire after saying that Muslim women wearing burkas “look like letter boxes” or bank robbers. The former foreign secretary came out against calls for a ban on the face-covering veils in public places, but described them as “absolutely ridiculous” and compared their wearers to rebellious teenagers. His comments, in response […]

The fearless Tory MP says the Foreign Secretary has lost all credibility writes TIM WALKER It exasperates Anna Soubry that Theresa May has found it necessary to invite her cabinet to Chequers this week to try to bang some heads together about how exactly Britain should go about exiting the European Union. ‘We had the […]

Free from the pressures that are silencing other MPs, the Conservative Party’s great europhile tells TIM WALKER about his meeting with Theresa May and why this is no time for despair. There would be no messing about if Ken Clarke were prime minister. Boris Johnson would have been sacked by now and the rest of […]

A fitting 48 times the hapless foreign secretary, currently backtracking from his bungled attempt to topple Theresa May, outraged with his thoughtless comments and ill-judged actions 1) During the London Riots of 2011 it took mayor Boris Johnson three days to return from holiday in Canada. He said: “I came as fast as I could.” […]