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Photo: Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, right, gestures to Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, outside Bute House, ahead of their meeting, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Monday July 29, 2019. London, Jul 30 : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is visiting Wales as part of a national tour intended to reassure Britons that his push for a hard Brexit won’t hurt the ...

Photo: People flock to Broadstairs beach in Kent, England, Thursday July 25, 2019. London, Jul 30 : Britain has officially had its hottest day on record. Weather agency the Met Office says the temperature reached 38.7 C (101.7 F) at Cambridge University Botanic Garden in eastern England during last week’s heat wave. The temperature was recorded Thursday and confirmed Monday ...

  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 ...

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. ...

  people flocked to the beach to enjoy Wednesday’s hot weather The UK is expecting its hottest day on record, with temperatures of up to 39C (102.2F) forecast in southern and eastern England. It is already the hottest day of the year so far, with the mercury hitting 35.1C at Heathrow Airport. Thousands of commuters have been hit by disruption ...