London – Times of Egypt British prime minister Boris Johnson held an emergency cabinet office committee meeting known as ‘COBRA’ on Monday, to examine plans to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Johnson discussed banning mass gatherings, isolation proposals and working from home. He urged the elderly, …
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Freeports may epitomise the Brexiters’ ‘global Britain’ but the UK economy performs too poorly for these to be more than luxury entrepôts. Oddný Helgadóttir British prime minister, Boris Johnson, has been promoting freeports as a way forward for post-Brexit Britain since he first staked his claim to lead the …
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Walaa Ali – Egypt Today In8 a meeting at 10 Downing street on Tuesday, Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi met the British prime minister Boris Johnson. President Sisi expressed Egypt’s aspiration to double the volume of British investments in the country, enhance economic cooperation between the two sides; as reforms …
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London – Times of Egypt The British conservative party has a won landslide general election, by securing 365 seats of out 650 seats in the House o0f Commons. The 80 seats majority is considered the largest number of seats the party won since 1987. “I say thank you for the …
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London- Times of Egypt The United Kingdom’s highest judicial body, the Supreme Court has ruled on September 24, that the parliament prorogation is unlawful. The verdict was delivered in a speech by the Supreme Court president Lady Hale. “ The decision to advise Her majesty to prorogue parliament was …
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Ahram Online Scotland’s highest court of appeal ruled today that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament for five weeks is “unlawful”, the lawmaker who led the challenge said. Parliament was prorogued, ie suspended, at the end of busines Monday 9 September until 14 October. Opponents of …
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The solidly bourgeois Financial Times fears Labour could come to power with a potentially post-capitalist programme. Paul Mason Thanks to the hubristic incompetence of the new UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, we could be about to see the first major economy in the developed world ruled by a party, or parties, …
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Proroguing Westminster is a transparent manoeuvre by Boris Johnson to set up a ‘people versus Parliament’ election, even with the UK on course to crash out of the EU. Kostas Botopoulos Whether one calls it a ‘constitutional outrage’, an ‘abuse of power’ or an ‘affront to democracy’, whether one …
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Published: 7 August 2018 Country: UK By Eline Jeanne Boris Johnson, the UK’s former foreign secretary, wrote a piece for the Telegraph about Denmark’s recent burka ban, and whether we should adopt the same laws in the UK. Upon reading the title of the piece, which claims that Denmark has …
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