EU migrants will have to earn at least £23,000 before they are allowed into Britain, as Boris Johnson pledges to end reliance on cheap, unskilled labour with new Australian-style points-based immigration system EU migrants will be expected to earn 70 points across a series of categories All migrants, EU or otherwise, will be required to … Read more
A Conservative MP who went to a coronavirus-breached conference has slapped down suggestions she should self-isolate after two Labour attendees quarantined themselves. Angela Richardson, the new representative for Guildford, toured an electric bus parked outside Westminster’s Queen Elizabeth II Centre on February 6. Delegates at the event included one patient subsequently diagnosed with the infection, … Read more
British couple stuck onboard cruise ship in Japan for 11 days ask Richard Branson to fly them back to Britain in a special plane to finish their quarantine at home David and Sally Abel are stuck on a cruise ship at a Yokohama port in Japan He asked Branson to charter a plane to fly … Read more
Boris Johnson might as well have made this week’s announcement about the go-ahead for a £106 billion high-speed rail link wearing a silk cravat and a frock coat. Here was a prime minister making grandiose promises to transform this nation through steel, just as his Victorian predecessors — Peel, Disraeli, Gladstone —had thrilled to iron. … Read more
Boris Johnson faces parliamentary probe over £15,000 luxury New Year holiday in the Caribbean and could be forced to repay the money and make a public apology Prime Minister declared £15,000 ‘benefit’ for luxury New Year stay in Mustique Under parliamentary rules, MPs must identify people who give financial favours Mr Johnson named businessman David … Read more
After Thursday’s Cabinet bloodbath, and the unexpected resignation of the Chancellor, I have a slight sense of foreboding. This Government is more tempestuous and unstable than I’d like it to be. There’s no denying that in the past few weeks Boris Johnson has shown himself admirably – and, to me, somewhat unexpectedly – decisive on … Read more
A GP surgery has gone into lock-down over a suspected coronavirus case as two MPs place themselves in ‘self-isolation’ and a Channel 4 employee is escorted out of the broadcaster’s London office by people in hazmat suits over fears the virus could continue to spread in the UK. Kingston Crescent Surgery in Portsmouth, Hampshire, bolted … Read more
Coronavirus fears are mounting in London after cleaners wearing hazmat suits were pictured disinfecting a 37-storey tower block where a resident with a fever was escorted from in an ambulance. Workers in protective suits were sent to One The Elephant yesterday morning, after the UK’s ninth case of the SARS-2 virus – a Chinese woman … Read more
Boris Johnson’s girlfriend Carrie Symonds is seen for first time in two months as she enters back of No 10… after triumphantly walking in through front door with PM following election EXCLUSIVE: PM’s partner was spotted arriving at the back entrance of No 10 She’s not been seen since she entered No 10 after election … Read more
Boris Johnson’s new-look Cabinet today agreed to the Prime Minister’s plans to introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system at the start of 2021. The PM’s freshly reshuffled top team met for the first time in Downing Street this morning and rubber-stamped the proposed post-Brexit border control system which the government has guaranteed will result in … Read more
Coronavirus fears are mounting in London after cleaners wearing hazmat suits were pictured disinfecting a 37-storey tower block where a resident with a fever was escorted from in an ambulance. Workers in protective suits were sent to One The Elephant yesterday morning, after the UK’s ninth case of the SARS-2 virus – a Chinese woman … Read more
Boris Johnson today told his new-look Cabinet it must now deliver on the ‘people’s priorities’ after he conducted a brutal reshuffle which saw Sajid Javid resign as chancellor. Mr Johnson met with his updated top team in Number 10 this morning as he congratulated his senior ministers for making the cut. He then told them: ‘We … Read more
Boris Johnson ‘CANCELS trip to US to see Donald Trump’ saying he is too BUSY amid transatlantic tensions over Huawei and death of British teen Harry Dunn that risk delaying a post-Brexit trade deal Prime Minister said to have originally planned to visit in January or February But the two men will not meet face-to-face … Read more