Boris Johnson has pledged to “hold out the hand” and “go the extra thousand miles” to strike a new Brexit deal. During a visit to Scotland, the prime minister said the existing withdrawal agreement negotiated with European leaders was “dead” and has “got to go”. However, he said he wanted the UK to be “very outward going” and said ...

  Charlotte Harris, a University of East London (UEL) graduate who is now a lecturer in the University’s School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering (ACE), has won a prestigious architecture award from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). HASA Architects, of which Ms Harris is a founding director, have won a London Regional Award for their Highgate Bowl project, which involves the transformation ...

West Bank, July 29 : It’s just after 6 a.m. and a Palestinian man’s face is momentarily bathed in crimson light, not by the sun rising over the mountains of Jordan, but by a facial recognition scanner at an Israeli checkpoint near Jerusalem. The Israeli military has installed the face scanners as part a multimillion dollar upgrade of the Qalandia ...

France will go ahead with a digital tax, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said Friday, shortly after US President Donald Trump threatened “substantial” retaliation over Paris targeting top US tech companies. “Universal taxation of digital activities is a challenge for us all. We want to reach an agreement within the G7 and the OECD. In the meantime, France will implement ...

said the full details of the Leeds-Manchester route would be published in the autumn Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised a faster rail route between Leeds and Manchester, claiming the benefits would be “colossal”. In a speech in Manchester he gave his backing to the trans-Pennine transport link to “turbo-charge the economy”. Standing in front of Stephenson’s Rocket he said ...

Boris Johnson is continuing to appoint more new ministers during his second full day as prime minister. Nick Hurd becomes a Northern Ireland minister, while George Freeman has been given a transport brief. Michael Ellis becomes the new solicitor general, replacing Lucy Frazer, whom Mr Johnson made a justice minister on Thursday. The new PM is making changes to lower-ranked ...

The recruitment of 20,000 new police officers in England and Wales will begin within weeks, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. The College of Policing welcomed the pledge but warned of “logistical challenges”, partly because of concerns of a lack of instructors for training. It is “not just getting people through the doors”, its chief executive said. Forces in England ...

Alok Sharma has been appointed Secretary of State for International Development. Alok was Minister of State for Employment at the Department of Work and Pensions from 9 January 2018 until 24 July 2019. He was Minister of State for Housing and Planning, for the Department for Communities and Local Government from 13 June 2017 to 9 January 2018. International Development ...

  He was Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from July to November 2018. He was previously Minister of State for Housing at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government from 9 January 2018 to 9 July 2018. He was Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice from 12 June 2017 to 9 January 2018. Dominic ...

Boris Johnson has promised the “beginning of a new golden age”, as he made his first Commons statement as PM. Speaking to MPs, Mr Johnson said his government would throw itself into Brexit negotiations with energy. He also assured EU citizens living in the UK they would have “absolute certainty” of their right to live and remain in the country. ...