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The departure of Munira Mirza, Downing Street’s head of policy, suggests that time is running out for Boris Johnson’s government. Sliding in opinion polls and under investigation by the police over illegal lockdown parties in No 10, the administration has a fin de régime aura. Ms Mirza, reputed to be the prime minister’s most trusted and influential aide..

Acculé par le scandale des « booze parties » organisées en périodes de restrictions sanitaires, le premier ministre britannique multiplie les manœuvres grossières pour séduire les députés conservateurs, qui tiennent son destin entre leurs mains.

I was hunkered down with fiction and history books early in the pandemic, when I stumbled on The Churchill Factor, an entertaining tale of dramatised history, written by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to educate young minds about their English hero and remind the elders of British greatness.

« La balle est dans le camp des Britanniques » dans la crise sur la pêche entre la France et le Royaume-Uni, a déclaré Emmanuel Macron, en rappelant que des mesures de rétorsion s’appliqueraient mardi prochain si Londres n’acceptait pas la « désescalade » proposée par Paris.

The United Kingdom has become the first country in Europe to record more than 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths, according to official figures by the health department.

It is one of the curiosities of this inside-out age that Donald Trump is loved by conspiracists, even though he is a leader – at last! – who embodies of all their worst fears. He really does hate them, he really is plotting against them, and he really is lying to them, in multiple and increasingly wicked and baroque ways.