Category: Politics

Why Boris Johnson’s newest MPs are out to get him

LONDON — Where’s the gratitude? That’s what Boris Johnson’s remaining loyalists want to know as a chunk of the most recent intake of Conservative MPs,…

Boris Johnson facing plot by new MPs to oust him over lockdown parties

LONDON — Boris Johnson is braced for another day of high drama as members of the 2019 intake of Conservative MPs — who rode the…

MEPs call for full-scale election observation in Hungary

A cross-party group of 62 members of the European Parliament has taken the unusual step of calling on a major election observer to send a…

Italian prosecutors probe 5Stars founder Beppe Grillo for peddling influence

ROME — Prosecutors in Italy are investigating the founder of the 5Star Movement, comedian Beppe Grillo, for trading in influence, in relation to alleged payments…

Secession threats and nationalist strife shock Bosnia as EU offers limited response

BBC funding freeze needed to curb cost of living, UK minister claims

LONDON — Britain is freezing the levy that pays for the BBC for two years in a move designed to control the cost of living, the…

Champagne sours as Ireland orders probe into its own bubbly partygate

Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has ordered his secretary-general to investigate an “impromptu” party with champagne held during lockdown restrictions in June 2020, his…