4 years, 5 months ago

Boris Johnson poised to implement lockdown he called 'height of absurdity'

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Boris Johnson called the idea “the height of absurdity”, a policy that would that would inflict unnecessary “misery” on the public and would “turn the lights out”. “Let us try to avoid the misery of another national lockdown, which he would want to impose, as I say, in a headlong way,” he told the Labour leader. A week later, in the Commons again, Mr Johnson upped the ante by attacking a second national lockdown as “the height of absurdity” that would “turn the lights out”. “It would involve closing schools and shuttering businesses, with all the psychological and emotional damage that a lockdown of that kind brings,” he alleged – even though Labour was not calling for school closures.

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2 years, 7 months ago

Boris Johnson ‘very confident’ Government’s lockdown decisions were ‘right’

The Independent

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$UK\'s Boris Johnson faces Parliament test over lockdown party claim$

3 years, 2 months ago

UK\'s Boris Johnson faces Parliament test over lockdown party claim

Deccan Chronicle

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a high-stakes showdown Wednesday in Parliament that could help defuse a crisis over claims that he and his staff held broke coronavirus lockdown rules with illicit parties Â— or fan the flames even further. Johnson's lunchtime appearance at the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons will be his first …

3 years, 2 months ago

‘Partygate’ could finish Boris Johnson – and boot the Tories out of No 10

The Telegraph

It was the moment when Boris Johnson channelled his hero, Winston Churchill, in a bid to win the Conservative Party leadership in 2019. The wartime Prime Minister famously said: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Yet as far as the Conservative faithful are concerned, there is only so much “buggering …

4 years, 1 month ago

Boris Johnson rejects Labour call for immediate extension to furlough and eviction ban

The Independent

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4 years, 2 months ago

A third national lockdown would once have been the end of Boris Johnson’s career

The Independent

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4 years, 3 months ago

Third national lockdown may be needed after Christmas, Boris Johnson hints

The Independent

4 years, 4 months ago

Boris Johnson issues plea to Tory rebels to support new lockdown

The Independent

4 years, 5 months ago

Second lockdown: Government ‘must make it count’, scientists warn

The Independent

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4 years, 5 months ago

Boris Johnson announces four-week Covid lockdown in England

Daily Mail

Key points in COVID lockdown Mark 2 Restrictions will start at midnight on Thursday morning and last until December 2. Papers drawn up by government advisers show daily death projections from different epidemic modelling groups, compared with the first wave and the government's previous 'reasonable worst-case scenario' - marked in black Medical chief Chris Whitty said cases now appeared to …

4 years, 5 months ago

Boris Johnson considering new national lockdown for England: UK media

Live Mint

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering imposing a new month-long national lockdown in England next week after scientists warned the coronavirus was spreading faster than their worst predictions, local media reported. "And unlike the first wave, where we had a national lockdown which protected huge swathes of society, this outbreak is now running riot across all age groups." A …

4 years, 5 months ago

Boris Johnson shelves plan to force Manchester into harshest tier 3 lockdown

The Independent

4 years, 5 months ago

Boris Johnson to address nation on new lockdown measures amid growing northern revolt

The Independent

$Six months on, Boris Johnson’s Britain is fractured$

4 years, 6 months ago

Six months on, Boris Johnson’s Britain is fractured

The Independent

4 years, 6 months ago

UK faces another national lockdown because of Boris Johnson’s ‘failure and incompetence’, says Angela Rayner

The Independent

4 years, 8 months ago

Boris says a second lockdown would be our own fault. That’s a bit rich

The Independent

4 years, 8 months ago

Boris Johnson claims UK won't need another national lockdown despite experts warning of second wave

The Independent

4 years, 10 months ago

PM Boris Johnson forced to clarify UK lockdown advice

Al Jazeera

In his first statement to Parliament on the coronavirus pandemic, months after the beginning of the outbreak in the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday issued a lengthy clarification to his government’s advice over the lifting of lockdown measures. “This is a supremely difficult balance.” Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said the government had been issuing conflicting …

4 years, 10 months ago

Boris Johnson accused of spreading confusion as he sets out first steps out of coronavirus lockdown

The Independent

5 years ago

What took Boris Johnson so long to order a lockdown over coronavirus fears?

CNN

London CNN — Boris Johnson has just imposed the most stringent social restrictions on the British public since the end of the Second World War. In a 2004 newspaper column, Johnson wrote of a proposed smoking ban: “We should have the common sense to listen to others before we presume to act in their interests.” Mocking those who supported the …

5 years ago

Just a day after Johnson told us to keep calm, we’ve gone into self-imposed lockdown. Was that the plan all along?

The Independent

5 years, 4 months ago

Boris Johnson ‘to curb legal challenges over Brexit’ in extraordinary attack on the courts

The Independent

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5 years, 6 months ago

Boris Johnson could be heading 'full-speed' toward no-deal Brexit; EU skeptical after first in-person talks with UK fall through

Firstpost

On a day of commotion and conflicting signals, Johnson pulled out of a news conference because of noisy anti-Brexit demonstrators Luxembourg: Boris Johnson was booed by protesters and berated by Luxembourg’s leader on a visit to the tiny nation Monday for his first face-to-face talks with the European Union chief about securing an elusive Brexit deal. “Such proposals have not …

5 years, 6 months ago

Dominic Cummings: Boris Johnson adviser’s proposal to suspend parliament a second time was ‘joke’, Number 10 insists

The Independent

5 years, 6 months ago

Boris Johnson news: John Bercow warns prime minister against disobeying law by not asking for Brexit delay

The Independent

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5 years, 6 months ago

Brexit: Boris Johnson told he would 'open door to mob rule' if he breaks no-deal law

The Independent

5 years, 6 months ago

Brexit: Boris Johnson must 'obey law', his own justice secretary reminds him in extraordinary warning

The Independent

5 years, 6 months ago

Boris Johnson plotting scheme to render EU ‘no longer legal’ in desperate bid to escape Brexit trap

The Independent

5 years, 7 months ago

Tory minister filmed admitting Boris Johnson’s move to suspend parliament motivated by Brexit

The Independent

5 years, 7 months ago

Boris Johnson’s attempt to override democracy must be defeated

The Independent

The prime minister’s suspension of parliament for five weeks in the middle of the Brexit crisis is devious and undemocratic. We should be grateful for small mercies, we suppose, in that Mr Johnson is not attempting what had been widely feared – namely to suspend parliament altogether until after the end of October. That had been suggested by some Brexit …

5 years, 7 months ago

Johnson’s plan to suspend UK Parliament sparks anger

Al Jazeera

The queen has given her backing to the prime minister’s plan to shut down the timetable for blocking a ‘no-deal’ Brexit. “I am appalled at the recklessness of Johnson’s government, which talks about sovereignty and yet is seeking to suspend parliament to avoid scrutiny of its plans for a reckless no-deal Brexit. “Your duty as Prime Minister is to bring …

5 years, 7 months ago

Brexit: Judge says legal bid to stop Boris Johnson forcing no-deal will be heard before 31 October, in win for campaigners

The Independent

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