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LONDON - Who could replace Boris Johnson as Britain's prime minister? Below is a summary of those who have announced they want the job and others who could be in the frame. The race follows Johnson's announcement on Thursday he was resigning, bowing to calls from ministerial colleagues ...

New Delhi: As many as 32 British lawmakers, including Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid, have now left Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government in less than 24 hours. Boris, however, on Wednesday (July 6, 2022) said that he was not going to resign and that the ...

Published: Published Date - 08:54 PM, Wed - 6 July 22 London: The governments of India and Pakistan may be at daggers drawn. But Indian and Pakistani origin senior cabinet ministers in the British government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson have combined to almost oust him from the job. ...

Issued on: 06/07/2022 - 14:32 Boris Johnson's days as UK prime minister look numbered after a series of ministerial resignations. But while several possible successors have been suggested, there is no clear favourite. Rishi SunakThe UK's first Hindu chancellor of the exchequer, who quit on Tuesday, was until recently ...

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power on Wednesday, gravely wounded by the resignation of ministers who said he was not fit to govern and with a growing number of lawmakers calling for him to go. Johnson`s finance and health secretaries quit on Tuesday, along with ...

Trott, on the other hand, took to Facebook to announce that she had stepped down from the Cabinet."I want to update you all, that I have resigned from my role as Parliamentary Private Secretary, to the Department of Transport," the MP said. She further added, "Trust in politics is ...

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government faced a new crisis Tuesday after two of his most senior Cabinet ministers resigned within minutes of each other. Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid quit, saying the government under Johnson’s leadership was no longer competent or “acting ...

Boris Johnson’s premiership was on the brink of collapse after two of his top ministers, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid, dramatically announced their resignations, saying they no longer have confidence in the embattled prime minister’s leadership and cannot work for a government mired in scandals. Chancellor ...

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, flanked by Rishi Sunak, chancellor of the exchequer, (right), and Sajid Javid, secretary of state for health and social care. (File photo: AP)LONDON: The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government was on the brink of collapse on Tuesday night after Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

London, May 10:Britain’s Parliament opens a new year-long session on Tuesday with a mix of royal pomp and raw politics, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to re-energize his scandal-tarnished administration and revive the economy amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis.Johnson’s Conservative government will set out the laws it plans ...