The British Prime Minister: I do not feel symptoms of the Coronavirus after coming into contact with an infected person, but I will continue to work while following the quarantine rules
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been told by NHS Test and Trace that he is required to self-isolate as a contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID19, 10 Downing Street has confirmed
8 month agoThe PM is self isolating after being contacted by NHS test & Trace. He met a small group of MPs on Thursday morning, one of them was Lee Anderson who subsequently tested positive for Covid-19
A further 168 people have died in the UK after testing positive for Covid-19, while almost 25,000 more have tested positive for coronavirus
Dominic Cummings has decided to leave Number 10 today
Greece PM's chief financial advisor @PatelisAlex says Greek gov't in advanced talks with three London banks for possible relocation to Athens post-Brexit
Alliance Party Leader @naomi_long says delay by Northern Ireland Executive to make decision about extending COVID19 restrictions "shameful & embarrassing". Justice Minister says Executive "patently failed people of Northern Ireland over last 7 days
Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale tells Sky News it is right for Dominic Cummings to go and that he has been a "maligned influence at the centre of Downing Street for too long" For more on this and other news visit
A UK government minister will become the 1st to travel to Russia next week since the Salisbury spy poisoning in 2018, which London blames on Moscow. But the visit by @morton_wendy isn't thought to be a sign of a thawing in relations between the 2 countries
The Northern Irish government was working to wrong end date of its four-week "circuit breaker" lockdown as restrictions do not expire until midnight on Friday
UK government formally rules that China has breached the Sino-British Joint Declaration. Says the decision to disqualify elected Hong Kong legislators "constitutes a clear breach"
Dominic Raab: Beijing's imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong constitutes a clear breach of the Joint Declaration. We will hold China to the obligations it freely assumed under international law
Police: The incident outside Edmonton Police Station on Wednesday evening is not being treated as terror-related. Commander Ade Adelekan says: "This appears to have been an isolated incident and I'm confident there is no wider risk to the community
Police: We are aware of speculation on social media regarding the ongoing incident in Edmonton. We will release facts when we can – our info must be accurate. Keep following this Twitter feed for the latest information on the incident in Edmonton
8 month agoFootage from Edmonton that has been circulating online showing man pouring gasoline on the ground
8 month agoVIDEO: Security incident in Edmonton where a vehicle (a BMW apparently) has crashed into a police station. Citizens advised to avoid the area
8 month agoA car has smashed into a police station in Edmonton, London UK
Attack on Edmonton Green Police Station. Someone just drove into the station couldn't get past the second set of doors then attempted to set the car and surrounding roads on fire
US President-elect @JoeBiden also discussed the Western Balkans with @BorisJohnson
8 month agoReadouts from the Biden transition of President-elect Biden's congratulatory calls today with the leaders of France, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom
Downing Street says the Prime Minister and U. S. President-elect talked in a phone call "about the importance of implementing Brexit in such a way that upholds the Good Friday Agreement, and the Prime Minister assured the President-elect that would be the case"
Britain expelled 2 Belarusian diplomats in response
Dominic Raab: The UK will not be cowed by the attempts of Lukashenka's government to stop us speaking out about the rigged election & the despicable violence against the Belarusian people. Today, we have expelled 2 Belarusian diplomats in response to the unjustified expulsion of British diplomats
Belarus declares two British diplomats persona non grata due "to the destructive nature of their activities" - Foreign Ministry
8 month agoMassive crowds begin to gather at Manchester University Fallowfield halls in protest of 'lockdown' fencing
8 month agoOxford Street anti lockdown protest
The Russian guided missile destroyer Severomorsk has been sailing in waters just north of RAF Lossiemouth for around one week
Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted Wednesday that a looming new coronavirus lockdown for England would end "automatically" in four weeks, as he tried to placate party critics over the spiralling economic fallout
'Serious divergences remain' in EU-UK talks: Barnier
The British Parliament approves a 4-week lockdown to curb Coronavirus
