Boris Johnson yesterday admitted that his government had made mistakes in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic and apologized for the pain, loss and suffering this had caused. He admitted that in the initial phase the scale of the coronavirus threat was underestimated.
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According to the new schedule of the Sejm session, on Monday - December 11 - at 3 p.m. (GMT+1) there will be a vote on the vote of confidence in Mateusz Morawiecki's government. Five hours later, Donald Tusk may be nominated by the Sejm as prime minister.more
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who led the government during the Covid-19 pandemic, will testify today and tomorrow at an ongoing public inquiry into the overall government response to it and - as the media suggests - apologize for the mistakes made.more
Britain has concluded a new treaty with Rwanda to return illegal immigrants - regardless of their nationality - who cross the English Channel. The British government hopes that the treaty will dispel the objections of the Supreme Court and that deportations will start in the spring.more
A new report from the Excel Recruitment group shows that retailers on the Green Island are increasing base salaries to retain departing employees. This phenomenon has been reported mainly in the clothing and non-food trade industries.more
Almost 54 per cent of respondents in a United Surveys poll for RMF FM and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna support the idea of putting the President of the National Bank of Poland, Adam Glapiński, before the State Tribunal. Just over 30 per cent of respondents are opposed.more
Britain's new Home Secretary James Cleverly yesterday set out a five-point plan to significantly restrict legal immigration to the UK. His key points include raising the minimum wage required for a work visa and abolishing the ability of care workers to draw family members.more
The UK's ruling Conservative Party is primarily losing voters not to Labour, but to Reform UK - the party founded by leading Brexit advocate Nigel Farage. The reason is that the Conservatives are seen as too soft on stopping immigration.more
As part of a new agreement being finalised between the UK and Rwanda to return illegal migrants to the African country, British government lawyers could sit in Rwandan courts, the BBC and the 'Daily Telegraph' reported yesterday.more
The 10-year plan to purchase new weapons for the British armed forces has a budget hole of 16.9 billion pounds, resulting from the increase in equipment costs and inflation, and this is the largest such deficit, the National Audit Office said today.more
If Donald Trump wins the US presidential elections, Republika Srpska will announce secession from Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Milorad Dodik, the president of this majority-Serb autonomous unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The US presidential elections will take place in 2024.more
The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assesses in its latest report that Russian troops are making progress in the fighting near Avdiivka in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. Russian troops, including: they moved west of the railway line running north of the town of Stepowe.more
Sultan al-Jaber, chairman of the COP28 climate conference, argued that there is no scientific evidence indicating that abandoning fossil fuels is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C - revealed the British daily "The Guardian".more
In an article published in The Sunday Telegraph, the leader of the British opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer, unexpectedly praised former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, hated by the British left, emphasizing that she had unleashed the "natural entrepreneurship of the British."more
The leader of Poland 2050 and the new Speaker of the Sejm, Szymon Holownia, currently enjoys the highest trust. In second place was the current leader of this classification, President Andrzej Duda. PSL leader Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz was promoted to third place, according to the November CBOS poll.more
Charities have criticised the "nonsensical" closure of migrant hotels after the BBC found many residents were being moved from one hotel to another.
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The UK yesterday announced the dispatch of the destroyer HMS Diamond to the Persian Gulf to help contain increasingly serious threats to shipping from Iran and Iran-backed groups in the wake of the war between the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas and Israel.more
More than a quarter of UK adults say they are likely to use buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) to help ease spending over the festive period, Citizens Advice has found.
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Sadiq Khan has urged the Government to take further action in tackling rogue landlords making tens of thousands of pounds a year from damp and mouldy properties.
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Former US Secretary of State, national security adviser and diplomat Henry Kissinger has died at the age of 100, his company Kissinger Associates announced.more
Sixteen activists of the Just Stop Oil group, which demands a halt to fossil fuel extraction, were arrested on the night from Wednesday to Thursday after a protest organized in front of the private home of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.more
A senior US State Department official assesses that Vladimir Putin will not make peace in Ukraine until the results of the US presidential election in November 2024 are known, Reuters reported. The assessment came during a meeting of NATO heads of diplomacy in Brussels.more
London and Athens have good relations despite a dispute over the cancellation of the Prime Ministers' meeting over Greek demands for the return of the Elgin marbles, located in the British Museum in London, sculptures from the Athenian Parthenon, according to Steve Barclay, UK environment minister, Sky News reported.more