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UK government refuses to hand Boris Johnson's unredacted messages to coronavirus inquiry
LONDON (AP) — The British government has refused an order to hand over a sheaf of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal messages to the country’s COVID-19 pandemic inquiry. It said Thursday it would try to challenge the order in court, setting up an extraordinary...
UK government fights demand to hand over Boris Johnson's messages to COVID-19 inquiry
LONDON (AP) — As Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson established an independent public inquiry into his government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the inquiry wants to see, in full, what Johnson wrote to other U.K. officials as the outbreak raged — but the...
UK home secretary won't face investigation over speeding ticket meddling claims
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. interior minister won’t face investigation over allegations that she tried to pull strings after getting a speeding ticket, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday, in an attempt to lay to rest one of several ethics claims dogging the Conservative government. ...
Former UK leader Boris Johnson faces new police probe over lockdown visits
LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was fined for breaking his own government's pandemic lockdown rules, has been reported to police again over more potential breaches. The Times of London said Tuesday that Johnson was reported by civil servants over...
UK local elections: Conservatives battered as Labour surges
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative Party endured a drubbing from voters Friday in local elections that delivered a warning to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ’s government, and a boost to the opposition, as a national election approaches. The left-of-center main opposition Labour...
UK holds local elections amid storm over new voter ID rules
LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in England voted Thursday in local elections that are the first test of electoral opinion since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took over a fractious and exhausted Conservative Party six months ago. The Conservatives say they expect to lose ground in...
BBC chief quits amid furor over role in Boris Johnson loan
LONDON (AP) — The chairman of the BBC quit Friday after a report found that he failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest over his role in arranging a loan more than two years ago for Boris Johnson, as scandals from the former prime minister's turbulent term continue to rattle U.K....
UK deputy prime minister quits after bullying investigation
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab grudgingly resigned Friday after an independent investigation found he bullied civil servants, though he criticized the findings as “flawed.” Raab's announcement came the day after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak received the...
UK prime minister weighs deputy's fate after 'bully' probe
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday reviewed the findings of a long-awaited investigation into allegations his top deputy bullied government employees, but didn't make a decision on his fate. An independent employment lawyer issued the report after...
Free-market ex-UK Treasury chief Nigel Lawson dies
LONDON (AP) — Nigel Lawson, the tax-cutting U.K. Treasury chief under the late Margaret Thatcher and a lion of Conservative politics in the late 20th century has died. He was 91. Lawson, who led the Treasury from 1983 to 1989, spearheaded the drive to place key public sector...
