Tag: British PM Boris Johnson

Auld lang syne: New Year brings final UK-EU Brexit split

LONDON — Like a separated couple still living together, Britain and the European Union spent 2020 wrangling and wondering whether they can still be friends. On Thursday, the U.K. is finally moving out. At 11 p.m. London time — midnight in Brussels — Britain will economically and practically […]

UK’s Johnson is stable in ICU with virus, received oxygen

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in stable condition Tuesday in a hospital intensive care unit with the coronavirus, and while he is not on a ventilator, he is receiving oxygen, his spokesman said. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has taken over many of Johnson’s duties temporarily […]

Johnson promises Brexit for Christmas in manifesto

TELFORD, England – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will promise to bring his deal to leave the European Union back to parliament before Christmas when he launches his Conservative Party’s manifesto on Sunday. With less than three weeks before Britain heads to the polls on Dec. 12, the […]

UK to send Brexit deal ‘final offer’ to a skeptical EU

MANCHESTER, England — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will send what he says is the U.K.’s “final offer” for a Brexit deal to the European Union on Wednesday, as the date for Britain’s departure from the bloc looms in less than a month. Johnson says the proposal is […]

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