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Boris Johnson

  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Boris Johnson urges wavering Tory voters to stick with the party

    Former PM’s intervention ahead of polling day highlights looming battle over Conservatives’ future direction

    Boris Johnson at a rally in London on Tuesday evening
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Daily Mail & General Trust
    Geordie Greig accuses Daily Mail of giving Conservative party easy coverage

    Former editor’s criticism of newspaper revives long-running feud with Paul Dacre

    Geordie Greig
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Tories deploy Boris Johnson to try to rejuvenate election campaign

    Former PM endorses candidates as new poll predicts historic Conservative loss

    Montage of Boris Johnson, left, and Rishi Sunak
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Michael Gove
    Brexit campaigner Michael Gove decides leave means leave

    Long-serving minister stands down leaving reputation for controversy but also for effectiveness

    Michael Gove, campaigning with Boris Johnson in the 2016 Brexit referendum
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    UK Covid inquiry
    UK civil servants ‘smashed to pieces’ in pandemic, says top official

    Simon Case tells inquiry it was ‘very frustrating’ to work for Boris Johnson during Covid crisis

    The Cabinet Office on Whitehall
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    UK local elections
    Boris Johnson turned away from polling station without proper ID

    UK veterans minister apologises to an ex-army officer stopped from voting as rules catch many out

    Boris Johnson voting in 2019
  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    News in-depthUK politics
    Big ambitions for levelling up UK show only partial progress

    Contradictory data allow cherry-picking of results on government’s flagship efforts to tackle regional inequality

  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Boris Johnson broke rules over hedge fund behind Venezuela trip, says watchdog

    Former UK prime minister accused of being ‘evasive’ about relationship with Merlyn Advisors

    Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, and Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    UK politics
    Watchdog asks Johnson to clarify his relationship with hedge fund

    Acoba contacts former PM after he met Venezuela president in a trip arranged by founder of Merlyn Advisors

    Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, and Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    News in-depthVenezuela
    Hedge fund manager arranged Boris Johnson’s trip to meet Venezuela’s Maduro

    Maarten Petermann of Merlyn Advisors arranged former UK PM’s unannounced trip to oil-rich state

  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson Channel 4 — from Eton origin story to ‘hasta la vista’

    Another profile of the former PM provides entertaining psychodrama but few fresh insights

    Boris Johnson, dressed in a suit, pictured during a press conference hanging his head downwards with union jack flags in the background
  • Sunday, 10 December, 2023
    UK Covid inquiry
    Sunak faces testing UK Covid inquiry grilling

    Nicknamed ‘Dr Death’ by some scientists during pandemic, prime minister will come under scrutiny for decisions as chancellor

    Montage of coronavirus graphic and Rishi Sunak holding plates at a Wagamama restaurant
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    Camilla Cavendish
    Public inquiries are one of Britain’s only growth industries

    This week’s Covid hearings are the latest example of a political culture that tries to postpone and evade accountability

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a red diary and a mobile phone with ‘Factory settings’ displayed  on the screen, chained with a lock and key in it.
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    UK Covid inquiry
    Johnson denies considering ‘let it rip’ Covid strategy

    Former UK prime minister says his approach during pandemic was to save lives ‘at all ages’

    Boris Johnson speaking at the Covid inquiry
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    UK Covid inquiry
    Boris Johnson admits UK ‘vastly underestimated’ Covid threat

    Former prime minister says his government ‘may have made mistakes’ in response to pandemic

    Boris Johnson speaking at the Covid-19 inquiry in London, England on December 6 2023
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    News in-depthUK Covid inquiry
    Johnson set to face grilling at Covid inquiry

    Allies of former PM say he will apologise for mistakes but defend positive aspects of UK response to pandemic

    Montage of Boris Johnson and Covid graphic
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    UK Covid inquiry
    Tory party pressure led Johnson to delay Covid curbs, says Hancock

    Former health secretary concedes pandemic rule-breaking by ministers and aides hit public adherence

    Matt Hancock gives evidence at the Covid inquiry
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    UK Covid inquiry
    Boris Johnson ‘not in charge’ in lead-up to pandemic, inquiry hears

    Sajid Javid says former UK PM allowed Dominic Cummings to make key government decisions in early days of crisis

    Sajid Javid giving evidence at the Covid inquiry
  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    UK Covid inquiry
    Boris Johnson was ‘bamboozled’ by scientific data, UK Covid inquiry told

    Diary entries by then chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance reveal how pandemic modelling ‘confused’ former PM

    Sir Patrick Vallance giving evidence at the Covid inquiry on Monday
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    News in-depthConservative party UK
    ‘Tragicomic’: Nadine Dorries’s potboiler book highlights Tory disunity

    Book by staunch Boris Johnson loyalist is a sign of the dysfunction in the UK’s ruling Conservative party

    Montage of Nadine Dorries and cover of book ‘The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson’
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Jill Rutter
    Whitehall woes laid bare by Covid spats pose a serious challenge

    The civil service, blamed and attacked by Johnson-era politicos, also has lessons to learn from this inquiry

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of four people whose heads are pixelated. Three are in a suit, while one is in casual clothing. Two hold a paper on which is written the word Policy.
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    UK Covid inquiry
    Ex-top UK civil servant urged Johnson to sack Hancock, Covid inquiry hears

    Mark Sedwill says then PM would have been ‘under no illusion’ about his view at height of pandemic

    Lord Mark Sedwill gives evidence on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
    UK politics
    Johnson fought against lockdown in autumn 2020, inquiry told

    Former chief strategic adviser claims UK PM said he would rather ‘let the bodies pile high’

  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    Camilla Cavendish
    Covid inquiry must offer more than lurid revelations

    The real question is why government systems failed when we most needed them

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of the 10 Downing Street door with red hearts pouring out of it, some inscribed with ‘Mum’ and ‘Dad’
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    News in-depthUK Covid inquiry
    ‘We were going to be great’: UK’s Covid failings laid bare in week of damning testimony

    Evidence from Downing Street insiders during inquiry paints devastating picture of response to pandemic

    Montage of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, Matt Hancock overlaid with a pulse line
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