Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson ‘orders review of BBC licence fee’

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Boris Johnson ‘orders a review of the BBC licence fee’ amid claims ministers are BOYCOTTING the broadcaster’s flagship Radio 4 Today programme Boris Johnson hinted during election campaign he wanted to scrap licence fee PM is now reportedly looking at decriminalising non-payment of licence fee  Fresh move by Downing Street will take relationship with the … Read more

Moment Conservative activists go wild after watching election exit poll predicting massive majority

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Boris Quake! The moment Conservative activists at party HQ go wild after watching election exit poll predicting massive majority Campaigners in the party’s Milbank calling centre nervously awaited the exit poll When majority was forecast, they sprang out of their seats and threw arms aloft  A cheer roared through the packed-out room and hugs and … Read more

Defiant Jeremy Corbyn says he’s ‘proud’ of Labour’s disastrous election campaign

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Jeremy Corbyn has doubled down on his support for Labour’s wildly left-wing policies despite the party’s spectacular election defeat. The outgoing opposition leader grudgingly shouldered personal responsibility for the catastrophic collapse in votes, but used two newspaper columns to pin the blame on Brexit and the media.      Labour suffered its worst performance at the polls … Read more

Boris Johnson’s shock ‘n’ awe: How the PM only expected a small majority on election night

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Boris Johnson was confident enough of victory that he did not draft a resignation speech, as his predecessors have done.  But he believed he would scrape home with only a slender majority of maybe ten MPs.  And as he awaited his fate on Thursday evening, sitting in Margaret Thatcher’s old study on the first floor … Read more

Boris Johnson pledges to give Britain its ‘mojo’ back on his victory tour

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Boris Johnson pledges to give Britain its ‘mojo’ back on his victory tour along the ruins of Labour’s broken Red Wall Boris Johnson marked win by giving speech in Blair’s Sedgefield constituency During his tour, the PM promised to take the country on a ‘wonderful adventure’ The election saw the Conservative Party achieve their largest win … Read more

Downing Street boycotts Radio 4’s Today programme in a bust-up over election bias

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Downing Street has boycotted the BBC‘s flagship news programme amid ongoing rows over the Corporation’s Election coverage and questions over the future of the licence fee. No 10 pulled Ministers from yesterday’s Radio 4 Today programme and intends to ‘withdraw engagement’ from future broadcasts of the show. The bitter stand-off comes as the BBC is … Read more

Boris Johnson parties the night away with Carrie Symonds at Annabel’s

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Boris Johnson partied the night away with his girlfriend Carrie Symonds at Annabel’s nightclub last night as he celebrated his historic election victory alongside A-list celebrities including Mick Jagger, Princess Beatrice and his old friend David Cameron. The Prime Minister, 55, walked side by side with his 31-year-old girlfriend as he arrived at the famous … Read more

‘I will repay your trust’: Boris Johnson hails voters in former Labour heartlands for backing Tories

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 Boris Johnson pledged to repay the trust of former Labour voters who switched to back the Tories as he held a victory rally today deep in what was once red territory following his landslide election victory. The Prime Minister went to Sedgefield, the former seat of Tony Blair, which was a brick in the so-called … Read more

‘People didn’t trust him to put our country first’: Ex-Labour MP Anna Turley blasts Jeremy Corbyn

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‘People didn’t trust him to put our country first’: Former northern Labour MP Anna Turley tears into Jeremy Corbyn over his ‘anti-Western world view’ saying he was poison on the doorstep Anna Turley castigated the opposition leader after lost her Redcar seat  Working class Cleveland constituency voted Tory for the first time ever She attacked … Read more