Boris Johnson today admitted the UK’s coronavirus death toll is ‘appalling’ as he said he hopes to be able to start easing lockdown rules on Monday. Mr Johnson returned to the House of Commons for PMQs at lunchtime for the first time since his recovery from coronavirus as he and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had … Read more
The SAGE files: Scientists urged Boris Johnson to tell people to stop shaking hands the SAME DAY the PM was boasting he was still using the greeting on ‘everybody’ – and he later became infected with coronavirus Documents showing science advice to the government on coronavirus released On March 3 behavioural group said people should … Read more
Matty ‘J’ Johnson and Laura Byrne looked like a picture of happiness during a family outing in Sydney on Monday. The former Bachelor stars were accompanied by their 11-month-old daughter Marlie-Mae and their beloved three-legged dog, Buster. Last week, Matty, 32, joked that he and Laura ‘still haven’t killed each other’ despite being in isolation … Read more
Boris Johnson has revealed that the fear of never seeing his newborn son drove him in his battle against coronavirus. The Prime Minister, 55, spent a week in April at St Thomas’s Hospital in London fighting the virus, including three days in intensive care, and admitted yesterday that doctors had prepared to announce his death. … Read more
‘It’s humanity against the virus’: Boris Johnson urges nations to pull together and brands £6bn vaccine quest ‘the most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes’ as UK records 315 more deaths By Claire Ellicot Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail Published: 00:00 BST, 4 May 2020 | Updated: 00:05 BST, 4 May 2020 Boris Johnson will … Read more
I drove a few miles by back roads this morning from my remote farm in the Upper Exe valley to the garage at Wheddon Cross to fill up with petrol. I’m not sure whether, strictly speaking, this was an ‘essential’ journey as laid down by law. The tank was still a quarter-full, but I reckoned … Read more
I’m not sure what was happening nine months back but all around me people seem to be popping out babies. Even the Prime Minister and his fiancee. Well not exactly popping out – many of them are long and complicated births made even more nerve-racking by coronavirus prohibitions – but it certainly feels like a … Read more
Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds do not intend to make their newborn a ‘public figure’, despite growing up in the flat above 11 Downing Street. Ms Symonds is understood to have chosen a picture that deliberately did not show the baby’s face and will shun the path taken by some previous Prime Ministers who had … Read more
Doctors prepared to announce Boris Johnson’s DEATH while he battled coronavirus: Prime Minister reveals medics planned for the worst when it was ’50-50 whether they were going to put a tube down my windpipe’ The Prime Minister has said he was ‘not in particularly brilliant shape’ in hospital He battled coronavirus at St Thomas’ Hospital in … Read more
The Duke of Cambridge phoned Boris Johnson and chatted with the Prime Minister over the phone days after the politician welcomed his newborn son. Prince William, 37, called Mr Johnson, 55, on Friday afternoon, with their phone meeting recorded as an official event in the Court Circular. The call came days after Mr Johnson and fiancee … Read more