# boris-johnson - Yesterday’s News
# Across The Irish Sea
- Johnson made clear that he did not favour scrapping the Protocol, and instead wanted to secure changes to it.
- DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the Prime Minister will be judged on his actions and not his words over the Protocol.
- Sinn Féin Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill said the Protocol "is here to stay" following a meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin.
# Sinister
# Sinister
Russia is not intimidating anyone, host Dmitry Kiselyov said, adding that “talking about our capabilities has an anti-war modality.”
# boris-johnson - Sunday 15 May, 2022
# Stormont
# Stormont
Boris Johnson will meet the main Stormont parties tomorrow in a bid to break the deadlock on returning to power-sharing arrangements.
# boris-johnson - Saturday 14 May, 2022
# Sinn Féin
# Sinn Féin
Nobody should be “spooked by the actions of the British government”, McDonald said.
# boris-johnson - Thursday 12 May, 2022
# Northern Ireland
- European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic earlier said the UK plans to scrap swathes of the Protocol are "unacceptable".
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dismissed suggestions of any possible escalatory response from the EU as "crazy".
- DUP MP Sammy Wilson said his party has adopted a wait-and-see approach over what the UK Government will do about the Protocol.
# Sauli Niinisto
# Sauli Niinisto
The announcement paves the way for the alliance to expand amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
# Partygate
# Partygate
More than 100 referrals in total for fixed penalty notices have now been issued as part of this investigation.
# boris-johnson - Wednesday 11 May, 2022
# The Protocol
# The Protocol
The foreign affairs minister said the working relationship Ireland and the UK have enjoyed in the past is currently “absent”.
# Brexit
# Brexit
It is understood the British Cabinet minister is poised to take further action in the coming weeks if negotiations with the EU continue to stall.
# boris-johnson - Monday 9 May, 2022
# UK
# UK
UK police have reopened an investigation into an event Starmer attended in Durham which was dubbed ‘Beer-gate’ by critics.
# boris-johnson - Sunday 8 May, 2022
# Ah Keir
# Ah Keir
A leaked memo suggested the beer and curry Starmer had with colleagues during UK coronavirus restrictions was planned in advance.
# boris-johnson - Saturday 7 May, 2022
# Local Elections
# Local Elections
Labour celebrated gains but their joy was overshadowed by the announcement of a police probe into whether Keir Starmer broke lockdown rules.
# boris-johnson - Friday 6 May, 2022
# Local Elections
# Local Elections
Labour’s Keir Starmer has hailed a ‘turning point’ as the party takes key London authorities from the Conservatives.
# boris-johnson - Thursday 5 May, 2022
# UK
# UK
The UK Prime Minister claimed that the proposal could be scuppered by ‘liberal lawyers’.
# boris-johnson - Monday 25 April, 2022
# Deputy Labour Leader
# Deputy Labour Leader
The claims, which were reportedly made by an unnamed Tory MP to the Mail on Sunday, have been widely condemned as sexist.
# boris-johnson - Friday 22 April, 2022
# Immigration
# Immigration
The agreement has attracted criticism from rights groups, opposition figures in Britain and Rwanda, and the United Nations.
# boris-johnson - Thursday 21 April, 2022
# Partygate
# Partygate
Last week, Boris Johnson became the first UK leader to be fined for breaking the law for a June 2020 birthday party.
# boris-johnson - Wednesday 20 April, 2022
# Partygate
# Partygate
The UK Government says the deferral will allow MPs ‘to have all the facts at their disposal’ when they make a decision.
# boris-johnson - Tuesday 19 April, 2022
# Under Pressure
# Under Pressure
Johnson says that previous comments he made in the House of Commons were “a mistake”.
# boris-johnson - Saturday 16 April, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Moscow said the move is in response to the UK’s “unbridled information and political campaign aimed at isolating Russia internationally”.
# boris-johnson - Thursday 14 April, 2022
# Priti Patel
# Priti Patel
Boris Johnson’s government has announced a new policy that will see asylum seekers sent to Rwanda for processing.
# boris-johnson - Wednesday 13 April, 2022
# Downing Street
# Downing Street
David Wolfson said there had been a “breach of the criminal law” at No 10.
# Partygate
# Partygate
Boris Johnson was fined over attending a gathering to mark his 56th birthday at No 10, at which he was ‘ambushed’ with a cake.
# boris-johnson - Tuesday 12 April, 2022
# Partygate
# Partygate
Opposition parties have called for both Johnson and Rishi to resign.
# boris-johnson - Wednesday 6 April, 2022
# Debate
From The42
# Debate
The UCI prevented transgender cyclist Emily Bridges from competing in a women’s category last weekend.
# boris-johnson - Thursday 31 March, 2022
# UK
# UK
The move was condemned by opposition parties.
# boris-johnson - Thursday 24 March, 2022
# Brussels Summit
# Brussels Summit
The UK Prime Minister is using a NATO emergency summit in Brussels today to commit to a new package to shore up Ukrainian defences.
# boris-johnson - Saturday 19 March, 2022
# UK
# UK
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said the UK Prime Minister “is a national embarrassment”.
# boris-johnson - Wednesday 16 March, 2022
# Saudi Arabia
# Saudi Arabia
Johnson is one of the few Western leaders to visit Riyadh since the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
# Homeward Bound
# Homeward Bound
Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained since 2016.
# boris-johnson - Sunday 13 March, 2022
# Boris
# Boris
Longstanding speculation about Johnson’s friendship with newspaper baron Evgeny Lebedev has revived since Russia invaded Ukraine.
# boris-johnson - Saturday 12 March, 2022
# France
# France
The French president criticised Boris Johnson’s Government over a policy which requires visa applications to be made in person in Brussels or Paris.
# boris-johnson - Tuesday 1 March, 2022
# No-Fly Zone
# No-Fly Zone
Journalist Daria Kaleniuk told Boris Johnson in Warsaw that he must do more to protect civilians in Ukraine.
# boris-johnson - Thursday 24 February, 2022
# Russian Sanctions
# Russian Sanctions
The package includes an intention to impose an asset freeze on all major Russian banks.
# boris-johnson - Sunday 20 February, 2022
# Partygate
# Partygate
Johnson handed a legal questionnaire to police on Friday regarding claims that lockdown-busting parties were held in Downing Street.
# boris-johnson - Thursday 17 February, 2022
# False Flag
# False Flag
Boris Johnson said he feared more violence following the shelling of a nursery school in clashes between Ukraine and Moscow-backed separatists.
# boris-johnson - Friday 11 February, 2022
# Downing Street
# Downing Street
Downing Street said the Prime Minister will ‘respond as required’.
# boris-johnson - Thursday 10 February, 2022
# Downing Street Parties
# Downing Street Parties
John Major said ministers being sent to “defend the indefensible” made the Government look “distinctly shifty”.
# Savile Slur
# Savile Slur
Starmer said the UK Prime Minister had used a ‘deliberate slur without any basis in fact’.
# boris-johnson - Wednesday 9 February, 2022
# Champagne Problems
# Champagne Problems
The Mirror earlier published a photo showing the Prime Minister near a prosecco bottle during a Christmas quiz.
