Boris Johnson launched his bid to be next Conservative leader and Prime Minister on the 12th of June. The full text of Boris Johnson's capaign launch speech is below:
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A 2015 comprehensive study by Ofcom—a UK regulatory authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries—suggested there was a growing concern among web and app users ...
We now live in a world where to be offended is considered a legitimate argument. Where people can be convicted for uttering an opinion which goes against the prevailing wisdom or questioning ...
Over recent weeks, we’ve gone from despair to relief to despair again watching the Brexit process. At long last the UK and EU have agreed an exit deal bringing to an end the first stage of ...
The great British public are a charitable bunch. But people do not give out their hard-earned cash equally, and they prefer certain charities. A new study I led suggests that a person’s ...
According to the latest statistics and figures, international students, who flock to the UK every year, help to generate the impact of more than £25 billion to the economy.
Research, which has ...
At last we have a new anti-Brexit party. They call themselves The Democrats, and they have high hopes. They also have a series of potentially fatal flaws.
There are a series of problems with any new ...
The so-called ‘Great Repeal Bill’ was published yesterday. This wide-ranging bill seeks to turn EU laws into British laws before the UK leaves the EU, thus avoiding a regulatory cliff ...
People-smuggling generated up to $6 billion in 2015
LONDON, July 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A British court on Thursday jailed a man for hiding 22 Afghans, including five children, inside a ...
Encryption backdoors, breaking WhatsApp and iMessage's security to let the government stop Bad Things, sounds like a reasonable idea. The British government secured the powers to do this and, ...
The Conservatives and the DUP have finally stuck a deal that will allow the Conservatives to continue to rule as a minority government.
It is understood that negotiations focussed on ...
Read more: Tories and DUP agree confidence and supply deal
The Queen's Speech is set to be delayed until next Monday. It is believed that the Conservatives are having trouble putting together the speech, especially while talks with the DUP are yet to be ...
Read more: Queen's Speech delayed, as Tories 'prune' manifesto
Trump leaving the Paris Agreement isn’t an awfully big surprise. It formed a pillar of his election campaign, and he has the executive power to tear it up himself. We have long known that Trump ...
Nigel Farage has been named a ‘person of interest by the FBI in their investigation into US President Donald Trump’s links to Russian politicians and intelligence agencies, according to a ...
On Tuesday, when Donald Trump abruptly dismissed the FBI director, James Comey, his administration insisted that he was merely following the recommendation of his attorney general ...
After a month of continuous protests against President Nicolás Maduro's government, his announcement on May 1, 2017 calling for a “popular constitutional assembly” that would ...
The most recent ONS data paints a worrying picture for post-Brexit trade. The sharp post-Brexit fall in the value of the pound should theoretically make British exports more competitive, as they ...
James Comey has had, shall we say, a wild ride.
After intervinening several times in last year's US election to release information on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and giving an unorthadox ...
FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining his "incredibly painful" decision to go public about the ...
The White House corrispondents dinner is a yearly tradition in the USA. The US President and representatives of the press make fun of one another in the spirit of fun. This is the first dinner since ...
So, it's no shock that Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen have made it through to the second and final round of the French presidential election. This campaign has been perhaps the most sensational in ...
French police officer guards a group of Jews at an internment camp in Drancy. Photo courtesy of Bundesarchiv CC-BY-SA 3.0
Electoral campaigns are in full swing for the French presidential election, ...
One of the major implications of leaving the European Union for British nationals is the loss of EU citizenship. British nationals will no longer be able to enjoy the right to free movement within ...
Huge questions hang over what Britain’s exit from the European Union will mean for the country’s immigration policy. Free movement of citizens between the UK and EU countries is coming to ...
Article 50, the provision of the Lisbon Treaty that forms the process of leaving the European Union, will be triggered next Wednesday, Downing Street has confirmed. This is in line with Theresa ...
The Netherlands goes to the polls tomorrow haunted by the prospect of a peroxide-blond, anti-immigrant firebrand leading his party to victory. Following the political earthquakes that were Brexit and ...
The nephew of North Korea's leader has confirmed on video that his father has been killed. Kim Jong-nam, the brother of the North Korean leader, died after a toxin was applied to his face in a ...
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South China Sea tensions will rise in the long-term as China exhausts its near-shore fisheries and continues to push outward to secure further stocks.
In Asia, consumption of fish will ...
Kenyans don't go to the polls until Aug. 8, but election fever is already gripping the country. On Twitter, one trending hashtag is #NotWithMyVote, which people are adding to tweets about their ...
South Africa’s mining industry is increasingly cited as one of the key sectors that must yield “radical economic transformation” and help the country heal a deeply divided and ...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Vice President of African Affairs and President of the U.S.-Africa Business Center Scott Eisner today met with His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo, the newly elected ...
Trump's latest executive order, banning all refugees from the USA and banning anyone from a series of Muslim majority countries- or with a claim for duel nationality including one of a series of ...
Read more: How British Politics Reacted to Trump's 'Muslim Ban'
The Panama Papers is the biggest leak in history, certainly in terms of size. What we know at the moment is just the tip of the iceberg; this could be the biggest in terms of magnitude too. As ...
The sugar tax was the shock announcement in today’s budget. Floated for years by politicians and commentators of every colour, it’s a mixed bag. On the one hand, it could have a severely ...
Read more: Budget 2016: The Sugar Tax
The British PM, David Cameron, has claimed that he has evidence that the Assad regime in Syria has used chemical weapons against its own people in breach of international law(1). He claims, such ...
Read more: Syria: “The solution has got to be law – not war.”
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Labour have contrasted Cameron's arguments for a debate in 2010 with his arguments against one now. The party have managed to turn these arguments into a 'debate' between ...
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Income taxOne big win for many is that the amount you can earn before being taxed - personal tax allowance - was already due to increase from £10,000 to £10,600 from April, and is set to rise ...
Read more: What the budget means for you
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In the run up to the Rochester & Strood by-election, former PM Sir John Major had this to say about UKIP on the Andrew Marr show. ...
This interview with the infamous Jack Abramoff by CBS's 60 Minutes shines a light on the murky world of political lobbying.
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