Sleazy Tories lose poll lead to Labour amid Paterson crisis
Renewed focus on the climate crisis has seen the Greens surge by five points to 11 per cent in the polls.
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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British politician and writer serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since July 2019. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 2016-2018 and Mayor of London 2008-2016. Johnson has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015 and was previously MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008. He has been described as adhering to the ideology of one-nation and national conservatism.
Boris Johnson and Tories see record low approval ratings from UK voters
Some 48 per cent of voters now think the Tories are “corrupt”, whilst 47 per cent think the same about Johnson.
‘Clean the stables’: Johnson faces calls for urgent sleaze inquiry
An emergency Commons debate will be held to consider the implications of the Owen Paterson row.
UK may pull out of EU science and research schemes to spite Brussels
Britain could withdraw from Horizon Europe and Euratom, the continent's atomic energy treaty, if relations with the EU worsen.
Brexit losses more than 178 times bigger than trade deal gains – research
Johnson's much-trumpeted FTAs “barely scratch the surface of the UK’s challenge to make up the GDP lost by leaving the EU”.
The Rebel Alliance is starting to crumble
A general election is a long way off, but a leadership challenge could be in the offing.
Senior Tory warns PM risks becoming ‘former occupant of No 10’ over Paterson
“Constituents have been rightly appalled by what they have seen. One system for MPs, another for the public.”
Former PM Major brands Johnson administration ‘politically corrupt’
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today that there was an arrogance at the heart of the government, a "general whiff of 'we are the masters now'."
Nazanin’s hunger-striking husband hits out at Johnson
Richard Ratcliffe is on a hunger strike outside the Foreign Office - and has been for two weeks.