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The British government will be forced to suspend the Northern Ireland Protocol if talks with the European Union over changes to it fail soon, Boris Johnson warned yesterday in an interview with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin.more

European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic announced that talks with the United Kingdom on trade rules in Northern Ireland will "likely" continue next year.more

Information published on Twitter by senator Krzysztof Brejza about the government's plan to create a pregnancy registry caused an avalanche of comments. Brejza assured that he had already addressed the minister with a senatorial intervention, demanding an explanation.more

British Interior Minister Priti Patel is under increasing pressure from Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Conservative MPs who are demanding results in the fight against illegal immigration via the English Channel, media reports.more

Almost 400 passengers and crew members of the British Airways plane were held hostage by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for several weeks in 1990, because the British Foreign Ministry did not provide the carrier with information about the invasion of Kuwait - according to the files declassified yesterday.more

A memorial service for the brutally murdered Conservative MP David Amess was held at the Westminster Cathedral in London. In the message read, Pope Francis emphasized that Amess had a strong faith in his devoted public service.more

The Home Secretary has been branded an ‘idiot’ with ‘erratic and outlandish’ ideas by her own staff, according to reports.more

The chaotic speech by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference corresponds to the last weeks of his rule and raises doubts among the Conservative Party as to whether he is in control of the situation, reports today's press.more

The British government excludes the possibility of suspending the Northern Ireland protocol before Christmas, revealed International Trade Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.more

Boris Johnson was left floundering today when he lost his place in a high-profile speech to business leaders. more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics next year in protest against China's human rights policy, The Times reported today.more

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace and the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, during the meeting in Poland, discussed the details of military cooperation between the two countries, including the presence of British engineering troops that are to help secure Poland's eastern border, said the Polish Defense Ministry. Wallace emphasized that in the face of the migration crmore

The UK government was not properly prepared for a pandemic like Covid-19, a new report has found.more

The British government has significantly reduced its flagship infrastructure project - the plan to build the HS2 high-speed rail linking London with northern England. One of its two legs that would lead to Leeds will not be built.more

The WTA, which oversees the top women's tennis competition, has threatened to cancel all tournaments in China unless the Peng Shuai case is resolved. The 35-year-old doubles player went missing after being accused of assaulting a former deputy prime minister.more

Sadiq Khan has warned that 100 bus routes are facing the axe, 200 more will have frequencies cut and worn-out Tube trains will not be replaced until the 2040s as he revealed the full extent of the transport crisis facing London.more

The migrant crisis triggered by the Belarusian authorities and the security situation in Central and Eastern Europe are the main topics of talks being held in London today by Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz.more

From October 2020. The EU has been successively imposing further sanctions on Belarus. This is in response to violence by the Belarusian authorities against demonstrators and the opposition, as well as the unlawful forcing of a Ryanair plane to land in Minsk on 23 May 2021. Alexander Lukashenko is also on the sanctions list. The latest package will be the fifth in a row.more

The British House of Commons accepted yesterday evening a government proposal to limit the possibility for MPs to take up paid jobs outside of their mandate. This is the effect of the accusations against the Conservative Party MPs for breaking the standards.more

Representatives of the Biden administration will soon announce a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the Washington Post reported yesterday. This is to be a reaction to human rights violations by China.more

Former Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz (PO) is mentioned as a potential candidate for the new head of the European Parliament, informs "Politico". The current head of the EP is socialist David Sassoli, but according to the agreement between the political groups, this position is to be taken by the EPP group in the second part of the current parliamentary term.more

The risk of an escalation of the migration crisis is high and we, as the European Union and NATO, should stop the leaders of Belarus and Russia by sending them the right political signals, said Marcin Przydacz, Polish Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in an interview with the BBC.more

Tobias Ellwood, the head of the defense committee in the British House of Commons, called to suspend all international flights to Belarus. He stressed that the authorities in Minsk are using migrants as a weapon.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested that soon the third dose of the vaccine, the so-called booster will be needed to consider someone fully vaccinated against Covid-19. He added that how many people will accept it depends on avoiding the lockdown.more

The Kremlin is behind everything, says Nedim Useinow, a political scientist from the University of Warsaw and a specialist in eastern issues, referring to the goals of the Belarusian dictator who led to the escalation of the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.more