Rishi Sunak closes in on No 10 as Penny Mordaunt races to get 100 backers before deadline
‘Bojo: It’s a no’: what the papers say as Johnson pulls out and Sunak surges ahead
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Truss meeting Queen at Balmoral to formally become PM
Johnson and Truss have travelled separately to Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire to meet the monarch.
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Senior UK cabinet ministers Sunak and Javid resign, plunging govt into chaos
Britain's finance and health ministers resigned on Tuesday, in what looked to be the final blow for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's premiership after he had tried to apologise for the latest scandal to dog his administration.
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Johnson to visit India in bid to boost defense ties
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek to put his domestic problems behind him when he visits India this week on a trip to strengthen links between the two countries which have not seen eye to eye over the response to the Ukraine crisis.
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Boris Johnson says he did attend No 10 lockdown party, and apologises, but thought it was work event
The prime minister’s words as he apologised in the Commons over the scandal engulfing Downing Street
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UK’s Johnson faces lockdown-breach claims over garden party
Opposition politicians called for a police investigation after broadcaster ITV published a leaked email invitation to “socially distanced drinks” in the garden of the prime minister’s Downing Street office and residence in May 2020. The email from the prime minister’s private secretary, Martin Reynolds, was sent to dozens of people and urged attendees to “bring your own booze.”
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Johnson to press ahead with lifting Covid rules despite worry over case numbers
Scientists and health experts urge the government to scrap ‘dangerous experiment’ as UK daily cases breach 50,000
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Britain on course to lift COVID restrictions on July 19, Johnson says
Britain is on course to be able to lift most remaining COVID-19 restrictions on July 19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, in his most confident statement yet that what has been dubbed "Freedom Day" will take place as planned.
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