Boris Johnson

UK Covid live: Delta variant cases rise by 46% on last week

Total of 111,157 confirmed and probable cases of Delta variant identified in UK, says PHE, making up 95% of confirmed infections

Nicola Slawson

25, Jun, 2021 @10:13 AM

Picking fights has served Johnson’s Tories well – but it’s a strategy that may backfire | Andy Beckett

The divisive style of Britain’s most dominant incompetent may lose its appeal as his voters feel their incomes shrinking, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Andy Beckett

25, Jun, 2021 @6:00 AM

Keir Starmer tells PM to ditch yacht and tackle antisocial behaviour

Labour leader criticises costly ‘national flagship’ plan and pledges to fund crime-fighting instead

Heather Stewart Political editor

24, Jun, 2021 @9:00 PM

UK removes quarantine requirement for arrivals from Balearics, Malta and some Caribbean islands – as it happened

Latest updates: Northern Ireland makes announcement before update on England travel green list

Nadeem Badshah, Matthew Weaver and Andrew Sparrow

24, Jun, 2021 @8:22 PM

Portuguese PM hints at tighter Covid rules for tourists from UK

António Costa’s remarks follow Angela Merkel calling for visitors to EU from Britain to be quarantined

Daniel Boffey in Brussels and Aubrey Allegretti

24, Jun, 2021 @6:24 PM

Britain’s stage-managed standoff in the Black Sea | Letters

Letters: Readers Paul Davy and John Sellers question the motives for sending a Royal Navy destroyer into the waters near Crimea

Letters

24, Jun, 2021 @4:48 PM

The Queen meets Boris Johnson in person again with weary resignation | John Crace

Why could they not carry on having their weekly meetings on Zoom, the monarch wondered

John Crace

24, Jun, 2021 @2:45 PM

Public inquiry into Covid must begin now, says senior judge

Exclusive: Robert Owen urges No 10 to appoint chair to establish panel and arrange document disclosure

Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

24, Jun, 2021 @1:25 PM

Brexit porkies: the etymology of ‘sausage’, star of the latest trade row

As a correspondent, Boris Johnson cooked up stories about European food regulation; as the PM, he is battling to avoid a trade war over sausages

Steven Poole

24, Jun, 2021 @6:00 AM

UK policies will not deliver emission cuts pledge, says climate adviser

Climate Change Committee says government needs to ‘step up very rapidly’ to meet ‘historic’ targets

Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent

23, Jun, 2021 @11:01 PM

Boris’s buffoonery and banter no laughing matter at PMQs | John Crace

PM’s replies to Keir Starmer on the UK’s low rate of rape prosecutions and convictions were crass at best