A petition has been launched by students at Boris Johnson’s former Oxford University college, calling on it to bar him from the premises. The Balliol College students behind the petition also want to prevent any portraits of the prime minister from being displayed. The petition states that his alumnus privileges should be “suspended immediately”. The college said it would hear...
It started with my dad. He gave me my first lesson in electricity, explaining that it takes two wires for electric current to flow – one for the electrons to go in, the other for them to come out. And he showed me how to repair irons and lamps and things like that. The kids in the neighbourhood took to calling me “the Professor”. We had little projects that we would work on, and...
The portrait painter passed away “suddenly and peacefully” at a London hospital on Monday, the family said in a statement shared with the Daily Telegraph. The prime minister has previously described his mother as the “supreme authority” in the family. At his first Conservative party conference as leader in 2019, Johnson said his mother had taught him “the equal importance, the equal dignity, the...
Sue Gray has issued a damning verdict on the party culture in Boris Johnson’s Downing Street, in a 37-page report that includes nine photographs and names a string of senior civil servants. Gray sets out in embarrassing detail how each event unfolded, including a leaving party on 18 June 2020 at which “one individual was sick” and “there was a minor altercation between two other individuals”...
Boris Johnson has not denied that parties were held in Downing Street last winter despite the lockdown at the time, saying only that no Covid rules were broken.But Johnson has denied a report that his flagship pledge to build 40 new hospitals has been labelled as unachievable by an official watchdog – even though the health department has confirmed this is the case.Experts advising the...
Boris Johnson has said it was “a total mistake” to try to defend Owen Paterson from punishment for repeatedly breaking lobbying rules, adding that he fully accepted that what his former Conservative colleague had done was wrong. In a sometimes uncomfortable appearance before the Commons liaison committee, Johnson said his brief attempt unilaterally to replace the existing disciplinary system for...
Boris Johnson and his wife, Carrie, are expecting their second child, as the prime minister’s wife revealed she had a miscarriage at the start of this year. The couple, who married in secret at Westminster Cathedral in May, had their son, Wilfred, in April 2020. Carrie Johnson announced that she is expecting their second child on her Instagram page, saying a miscarriage had left her “heartbroken”...
Boris Johnson has said it would be “irresponsible” to rule out further lockdowns if more deadly coronavirus variants emerge. The Prime Minister continued to say he could not rule out the prospect of taking drastic action again as the nation feels the impact of the new Omicron strain. While symptoms are generally less severe than earlier variants, the rate of Covid-19 hospital admissions in...
Billionaire Sir James Dyson has denied trying to “extract favours” from the prime minister, accusing detractors of engaging in “politically motivated mud-slinging”. This comes after allegations of government “sleaze” grew after the BBC last week published texts between the inventor and Boris Johnson, sent at the start of the pandemic. The exchange followed a call in mid-March in which Boris...
THE executions of two murderers have been delayed at the 11th hour after the death row inmates contracted Covid-19. Convicted killers Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs were scheduled to be executed on Thursday and Friday, respectively, at the Justice Department’s execution chamber in the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. But Judge Tanya Chutkan of the US District Court in Washington on...