Ministers bow to Labour and introduce pre-departure Covid tests
The travel industry reacted with fury to the latest effort to stop the spread of Omicron.
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.
The travel industry reacted with fury to the latest effort to stop the spread of Omicron.
The byelection was triggered to replace Owen Paterson after the Standards Committee recommended the former Conservative minister should be suspended from Parliament for 30 days over an “egregious” breach of a ban on paid lobbying by MPs.
"...90 of our members being here by virtue of their grandfathers or their great or sometimes great, great grandfathers is a source of shame to a 21st century legislature," was another concern.
"I can't say I disagree with anything she says," said one person on Twitter.
"Watch in disbelief! How long is the country going to accept this?"
Most people would brag about going to an Xmas party at Number 10, but it appears nobody was there...
"I just love when Ant and Dec take the mick out of Boris," said one amused viewer.
Le Canard Enchaîné reported that Mr Macron called Mr Johnson a “clown” and a “knucklehead” as tensions ran high over the migrant crisis in the Channel.
“It is sad to see a major country with which we could do huge numbers of things led by a clown," he is believed to have said.
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