Boris Johnson, the frontrunner in the race to become Britain's next prime minister, has met hedge fund and private equity executives to raise donations for his leadership campaign, according to sources familiar with the matter. Johnson, who on Tuesday reaffirmed his determination to take Britain out of the European Union ...
Tax cuts planned by Boris Johnson, the leading candidate to become Britain's next prime minister, could cost as much as 20 billion pounds a year, according to calculations from the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank. Johnson, who is vying for the votes of Conservative Party members in a run-off ...
Boris Johnson, the favourite to become British prime minister, said he will seek a new Brexit deal with the European Union but if the bloc refuses his demands then he will lead the world's fifth largest economy out without agreement on Oct. 31. The United Kingdom's three-year Brexit crisis could ...
Film director Wayne Mosley, 47, said the Tory MP never introduced himself by name and that he only knew him as a neighbour when they had a six-minute conversation about UFOs
A group from Class War arrived at Carrie Symonds’ south London apartment, claiming Johnson wasn’t even fit to be a “Pie Minister”
Research revealed the digital trail and forgeries behind stories designed to appeal to conspiracy theory fans, right wingers and Brexit supporters.
Evidence has also emerged of far right activist Steve Bannon advising Boris Johnson despite Johnson's previous denials of a relationship.
Carrie Symonds, 31, was heard arguing with the Tory leadership battle favourite at her third floor flat in a Victorian townhouse in Camberwell, south east London, in the early hours of Friday
Boris Johnson has cemented his lead in the collossal waste of time that is the Tory Party leadership contest. Remember when the EU warned the UK not to waste any time before the Brexit deadline they agreed to put back to the end of October? The plea appears to have ...
Remember when Boris Johnson, the front-runner to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister, promised voters in his west London constituency four years ago that he "would lie down with you in front of those bulldozers and stop the building, stop the construction of that third runway"? Since then, ...
Boris Johnson has boosted his campaign to replace Theresa May after former rival and EU supporter Matt Hancock backed him saying he was "almost certain to win the contest". Johnson, a former London mayor and foreign secretary, is way out in front in the race to become leader of the ...
Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be Britain's prime minister, promised he would take the United Kingdom out of the European Union by Oct. 31, saying that only by preparing to leave without an agreement could a no-deal Brexit be prevented. Johnson, a former foreign minister and London mayor, is the ...
Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to replace Theresa May as Britain's prime minister, came under pressure on Friday to face the media over his Brexit plans as another of his rivals dropped out of the leadership battle. Health minister Matt Hancock quit the battle to succeed May as Conservative Party leader, ...
Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to replace Theresa May as Britain's prime minister, must face more scrutiny over his Brexit plans, his closest rival said on Friday with a taunt that his hero Winston Churchill would not shy away from the media. Johnson has pledged that Britain will exit the European ...
Conservative leadership favourite Boris Johnson has announced he would cut income tax for the highest earners if he became the Prime Minister. Johnson indicated he would raise the 40p threshold from £50 to £80k. Boris used the Telegraph to make his case for the cut, saying: “We should be raising ...
A new poll has put Rory Stewart ahead of Boris Johnson as the public’s choice for Prime Minister. The results have been revealed on the day Theresa May officially resigned as leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party, with the 1922 Committee inviting nominations from MPs wanting to replace her. ...
Boris Johnson as Prime Minister with Nigel Farage as his deputy has emerged as the most popular option for Brits in the event of a hung parliament, new polling data has revealed. A TalkRADIO and OnePoll study found a CON/BREX coalition topped all other alliances as the preferred option in ...
Boris is in front amongst Tory leadership hopefuls
"Gove and Johnson, Johnson didn't even want to leave, they jumped on the back of it because they knew Cameron would have to go if he lost it."
This could be quite awkward for Boris Johnson, the Led By Donkeys anti-Brexit group has projected a previous and less-than-flattering message about Donald Trump onto Big Ben. Trump seems to have forgotten (or simply missed) these comments as now they have a close relationship. The US President said of Johnson, regarding his visit ...
Lewis Powett QC, representing Marcus Ball, the creator of the “Brexit Justice” campaign to prosecute Johnson over his “abuse of public trust”, insisted: “These are systematic and repeated lies.”
A district judge has reserved judgement over whether the private prosecution against the former foreign secretary would go ahead.
Viral comedy remixers Cassette Boy’s latest political mash-up hits the nail on the head. The cut and paste experts have wasted no time at all covering Boris Johnson’s leadership ambitions now Theresa May has been forced to make a timetable for her departure. Just as the Brexit champion has wasted ...
It will come as a surprise to very few people, but Boris Johnson intends to stand to become the leader of the Conservative Party. He said he will go for the top job as soon as Theresa May steps down. Asked at a business event in Manchester if he would ...
Former London mayor Boris Johnson allegedly had to delete a tweet claiming he “just voted Conservatives in the local elections” after realising no elections were being held in the capital yesterday. James Felton posted out the deleted message which had appeared on Politwoops- a website which stores all deleted tweets ...
Donald Trump is expected to have dinner with Boris Johnson following revelations that his official State Banquet is expected to be snubbed by Jeremy Corbyn and other leading politicians. According to the Sunday Times the US President is eager to meet the former Foreign Secretary, and could even spend some ...
Rachel Johnson, sister of Boris, is to stand in the European elections for anti-Brexit party, Change UK. Change UK, originally the Independent Group, has also signed up ex-BBC journalist Gavin Esler to stand during the June vote. The party used the We The Curious science centre in Bristol for its ...
Boris Johnson is at risk of losing his seat in the next general election amid a surge of younger voters. Research by centre-Right think-tank Onward found that constituencies with ratios above 1:1 voters aged 20-39 for 60 pluses were likely to be won by parties other than the Tories, potentially ...
“That does not demonstrate the leadership, which one would expect of a long-standing and senior Member of the House, nor compliance with the general principles of conduct.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg has said an "awkward reality" needs to be faced after suggesting he will now back Theresa May's deal in parliament. The prominent Brexiteer, who has been critical about the deal throughout, admitted that "the choice seems to be Mrs May’s deal or no Brexit", adding: "No Deal is ...
A letter sent to Boris Johnson's dad during his time at Eton College has been making the rounds on social media - and it explains a lot. Martin Hammond, who was Johnson’s housemaster and taught him classics, spotted early on that the former Foreign Secretary and prominent Brexiteer showcased a ...
Boris Johnson has been booked to give a £75-a-head Brexit talk just three days before the UK officially leaves the European Union. The former Mayor and Foreign Secretary will discuss issues such as the Irish backstop, customs union, transition period and Article 50 at the event in Westminster's Central Hall. ...
Theresa May is expected to survive a vote of confidence this evening. The challenge to Mrs May's position comes after the required 48 letters calling for a contest were delivered and she’s 3/1 to lose the vote she is 1/5 to get through the vote. She requires 158 Tory MPs ...
Boris Johnson was crowned the Idiot of the Year and dubbed the "most irresponsible politician the country has seen for many years" at The Economist's alternative awards last night. The former London Mayor and Foreign Secretary pipped Theresa May to the "prize idiot" gong. Citing Brexit the judges said they ...
Boris Johnson has found himself in hot water again. Only a few weeks after his water cannons were sold off at a huge loss. Now he has been told to apologise, in Parliament, after he repeatedly failed to register payments from his newspaper column and books.The totals involved with the ...
As if Boris Johnson's reputation couldn't take more of a hiding, fresh after the revelations that the water cannons he was warned were a waste of time as London Mayor lost £300k, it emerges that having resigned from the cabinet he is coining it in, paid £90k for two-hour speech ...
Boris Johnson’s brother Jo Johnson has resigned from Theresa May’s government, insisting that the public should have a final say vote on the actual deal the government is cobbling together as Britain was "on the brink of the greatest crisis" since World War Two and what is actually on offer isn't ...
Boris Johnson went on a £14k all-expenses-paid trip to Saudi Arabia just days before they killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The three day excursion was paid for directly by the troubled Kingdom’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He flew into Jeddah on September 19 ten days before Khashoggi was killed by Saudi ...
Organisers at the annual Kent bash have previously depicted disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, ex-Apprentice star Katie Hopkins and Donald Trump.
Boris Johnson has had his bid for Number 10 backed by a hedge fund manager who makes money from political volatility, according to recent reports. Billionaire Crispin Odey has told the former Foreign Secretary that he will have his backing to topple Theresa May. Talking to the Mail on Sunday, ...
The Oxford University Conservatives Association have added the infamous drinking society to their list of proscribed organisations.
Boris Johnson has left national newspaper editors salivating once again today after he revealed grandiose visions of a bridge to Ireland in his Brexit plans. In an interview with the Sunday Times the former Foreign Secretary and Mayor of London lashed out at the Prime Minister’s Brexit blueprint, saying the ...
After Boris Johnson published his “plan for a better Brexit” in the Telegraph, rubbishing Theresa May’s Chequers plan ahead of the Tory Party conference, he was rounded by many for a lack of coherence and reality - especially when it comes to not letting the Northern Ireland peace process fall ...
Former foreign secretary spoke as arrived back from America
Boris Johnson has admitted he “deeply regrets” going down the Brexit route according to sources close to the former Foreign Secretary. Matt Kelly, editor of The New European, revealed on Twitter that someone who knows Johnson very well said he now wishes he had sent the other letter. The source ...
