Boris Johnson
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‘Pursue this urgently’: whistleblower case reveals Whitehall focus on Kabul animal airlift
Emails released as part of employment tribunal lift lid on questionable decisions made amid Afghanistan evacua…
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Kabul evacuation whistleblower wins case against UK government
Civil servant Josie Stewart found to have been unlawfully dismissed in 2022 after she told BBC about failures‘…
- Afghanistan, Boris Johnson, Joe Biden, South and Central Asia, Taliban, US military, US news, World news
The Observer view on Afghanistan: withdrawal should be a cause for lasting shame in Britain and the US | Observer editorial
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are still failing to take responsibility for abandoning the Afghan p…
- Boris Johnson, India, Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, Sikhism, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Foreign Office scaling back support for UK Sikh activist held in India, Keir Starmer says
Sunak’s government has refused to echo assertion that Jagtar Singh Johal is being arbitrarily detainedRishi Su…
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Jo Johnson resigns as director of firm linked to Adani allegations
Former UK PM’s brother quits board of Elara Capital days after it was accused of using funds to manipulate sha…
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‘Fight of our lives’: what happened on the first day of Cop27?
From a bombastic Boris Johnson speech to an impassioned plea from the Barbados PM, here’s how first full day p…
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Boris Johnson accused of intelligence tipoff that led to British Sikh’s alleged torture in India
Labour raises questions in the Commons over Johnson’s alleged actions as foreign secretary in the case of acti…
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Xi Jinping hails China’s rule over Hong Kong on 25th anniversary of handover
Chinese president says ‘one country, two systems’ will endure and democracy flourishes after unprecedented unp…
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Boris Johnson says India arbitrarily detaining British Sikh activist
Letter from PM saying Jagtar Singh Johal is being arbitrarily held comes four and a half years after Johal’s a…
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UK calls for extra vigilance on China ahead of Nato summit
Boris Johnson and Liz Truss among those saying Ukraine war highlights potential Chinese threat to TaiwanBoris …
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Starmer urges PM to request India release UK citizen Jagtar Singh Johal
Labour leader writes to Boris Johnson after UN working group declared Johal’s five-year detention arbitraryKei…
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Tory devotion to ‘dear friend’ Modi says so much about needy post-Brexit Britain | Nick Cohen
India’s abhorrent domestic policies are of no interest to this desperate governmentNarendra Modi and the Hindu…
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From Boris Johnson’s Indian motorcade – in pictures
On his trip to India last week, Boris Johnson told media he would not necessarily get the enthusiastic recepti…
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Security chief denies consulting No 10 over Afghanistan charity evacuation
Sir Stephen Lovegrove tells MPs he cannot recall with whom he checked that Nowzad staff were eligible for help…
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Boris Johnson is a patsy for populist leaders – as his India visit shows | Mukul Kesavan
By posing in a digger just after Muslim properties had been razed, Johnson is enabling Modi’s nationalist poli…