The requirement for COVID-19 testing for fully vaccinated travellers arriving in the UK will be scrapped next month, the UK government has announced. Eligible fully vaccinated passengers arriving in the UK will “no longer have to take a post-arrival lateral flow test” from 4 a.m. on Feb. 11, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told the House…
Johnson Orders Inquiry Into Claim of Islamophobia in Ministerial Sacking
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered an inquiry into claims made by Conservative MP Nusrat Ghani that she was sacked from her ministerial post because her “Muslimness” was “making colleagues uncomfortable.” Following a phone conversation with Ghani on Sunday evening, Johnson asked the Cabinet Office to “establish the facts” regarding the allegations. A Downing…
UK Lawmaker Claims She Was Sacked as Minister for ‘Muslimness’
A Conservative MP has said she was told that she was sacked from her ministerial post because her “Muslimness” was “making colleagues uncomfortable.” In an interview with The Sunday Times, Nusrat Ghani said when she lost her job as a transport minister in 2020, a government whip told her that “Muslimness” had been raised as…
Senior Tory to Meet Police Over Alleged Blackmailing of Dissenting MPs by No 10
A senior UK Conservative MP who accused ministers of intimidating dissenting MPs to secure support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he’s due to speak to the police. William Wragg, vice-chairman of the 1922 committee—a committee of all backbench Conservative MPs—said on Friday that he will be meeting a detective from the Metropolitan Police in the…
London’s Omicron ‘Major Incident’ Finishes but Mask Still Mandatory on Public Transport
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he is standing down the “major incident” over the Omicron COVID-19 variant, but insisted the city remains on high alert and the mask mandate on public transport remains in place. Khan declared the “major incident” on Dec. 18, citing the spread of the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist…
The Real Scandal
Commentary Students of scandalology like myself have been looking across the Atlantic lately. For some reason, the scandal-hungry American media has lapsed into somnolence since this time last year—about the time when President Joe Biden took office. I mean, of course, apart from occasional outbursts of vestigial rage directed at his predecessor in office —who…
Senior Conservative Critic of Boris Johnson Accuses Prime Minister of ‘Blackmailing’ Dissenters
Conservative MPs who want Boris Johnson to resign as prime minister are facing “intimidation” and “blackmail” from ministers, a senior Tory MP has alleged. William Wragg, a Conservative MP who has called on Johnson to quit, said a number of his colleagues “have faced pressures and intimidation from members of the government because of their…
Boris Johnson’s Premiership Hangs by a Thread
Commentary It’s normal during Prime Minister’s Questions time in the House of Commons for opposition parties to attack the UK government’s record in often-heated exchanges, but on Jan. 19, Boris Johnson suffered the strongest attacks from his own side. The most serious of these came from former Cabinet minister David Davis, who ended his comments to…
UK Military Given ‘Crucial’ Role in Operation Against Illegal Immigration in English Channel
The British government has given the armed forces a “crucial” role in the operation against illegal immigration in the English Channel, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has said. Answering questions in the House of Commons on Jan. 17, Patel said that she had commissioned the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as a “crucial operational partner to…
Downing Street Denies Boris Johnson Knew About Lockdown Garden Party
Downing Street has denied Prime Minister Boris Johnson was told in advance about a drinks party in the Number 10 garden in the midst of the first COVID-19 lockdown. Johnson admitted on Jan. 12 that he attended a gathering in the garden for around 25 minutes on May 20, 2020 to “thank groups of staff.”…
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