# uk-government - Wednesday 15 June, 2022
# Migrant Policy
# Migrant Policy
All migrants weren removed from the plane, Government sources have said.
# uk-government - Tuesday 14 June, 2022
# Asylum Seekers
# Asylum Seekers
The first flight of asylum seekers is due to depart from the UK to Rwanda this evening.
# Northern Ireland Protocol
Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said Ireland will not be made collateral damage by the plan. Sinn Féin Vice President Michelle O'Neill said that the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit were incompatible. DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has not given a timeline for his party to return to power-sharing in the north.
# uk-government - Monday 16 May, 2022
# Across The Irish Sea
Johnson made clear that he did not favour scrapping the Protocol, and instead wanted to secure changes to it. DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the Prime Minister will be judged on his actions and not his words over the Protocol. Sinn Féin Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill said the Protocol "is here to stay" following a meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin.
# uk-government - Thursday 28 April, 2022
# Border Checks
# Border Checks
Jacob Rees-Mogg said the decision would avoid potential disruption at the border.
# uk-government - Thursday 14 April, 2022
# UK Government
# UK Government
UK teachers at a conference raised concerns over the government’s “repeated U-turns” on banning conversion therapy.
# uk-government - Monday 21 March, 2022
# Zaghari-Ratcliffe
# Zaghari-Ratcliffe
The British-Iranian dual national also said: ‘What happened now should have happened six years ago.’
# uk-government - Thursday 27 January, 2022
# Liz Truss
# Liz Truss
Liz Truss visited Northern Ireland today.
# uk-government - Wednesday 19 January, 2022
# House Of Lords
# House Of Lords
Stormont elections take place this year on 5 May.
# uk-government - Thursday 21 October, 2021
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
Former negotiator Sydney Nash says it’s sovereignty, not sausages, that the UK government cares about.
# uk-government - Tuesday 12 October, 2021
# Report
# Report
Experts and ministers sought to ‘only moderate the speed of infection’ through the population, MPs said.
# uk-government - Monday 4 October, 2021
# British Army
# British Army
200 British military personnel are being deployed to assist in the supply of petrol filling stations
# uk-government - Saturday 17 July, 2021
# Summer Reopening
# Summer Reopening
It comes two days before the government goes ahead with the final lifting of lockdown restrictions in England.
# uk-government - Friday 25 June, 2021
# Matt Hancock
# Matt Hancock
The Sun newspaper in the UK today published pictures of Matt Hancock with adviser Gina Coladangelo.
# uk-government - Monday 21 June, 2021
# Back To Normality
# Back To Normality
Under the plan, the ten day quarantine period could be axed in favour of daily lateral flow tests.
# uk-government - Friday 7 May, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
The former BBC correspondent and author looks at a week where the UK prime minister set the cat among the pigeons in the North.
# uk-government - Sunday 21 February, 2021
# UK Government
# UK Government
Previous targets were to inoculate over-50s by May, with all adults to be vaccinated by the end of September.
# uk-government - Monday 11 January, 2021
# Report
# Report
A report on compensation to UK victims of Gaddafi-sponsored IRA terrorism was delivered to government last year.
# uk-government - Tuesday 15 December, 2020
# The Tiers
# The Tiers
London mayor Sadiq Khan has also expressed concerns over the five-day “Christmas window”.
# uk-government - Saturday 12 December, 2020
# Betting
# Betting
Legislation that would create a regulator in Ireland was first proposed by the government seven years ago.
# uk-government - Monday 23 November, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The British Prime Minister said today that the previous regime of restrictions did not do enough to tackle the virus.
# uk-government - Tuesday 13 October, 2020
# Boris Johnson
# Boris Johnson
The idea of a “short, hard lockdown” has also been mooted here.
# uk-government - Monday 7 September, 2020
# Explainer
# Explainer
EU-UK trade talks are set to start up again tomorrow.
# uk-government - Sunday 3 May, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Grant Schapps said “many things” could have been different if the UK’s testing capacity was above 100,000 before Covid-19 spread in the country.
# uk-government - Thursday 23 April, 2020
# Sample
# Sample
At first, 25,000 people will be tested using self-administered nose and throat swabs to see if they have Covid-19.
# uk-government - Saturday 4 April, 2020
# NATIONAL EMERGENCY
# NATIONAL EMERGENCY
A leading pandemic modeller in the UK has said Britain had “painted itself into a corner” with no clear exit strategy from the coronavirus crisis.
# uk-government - Wednesday 15 January, 2020
# Conor Murphy
# Conor Murphy
This evening, Conor Murphy said he “cannot and will not” accept the British government’s package.
# uk-government - Tuesday 8 October, 2019
# Ni
# Ni
The abortion law won’t change later this month if the NI Executive is restored by 21 October.
# uk-government - Tuesday 10 September, 2019
# Emma DeSouza
# Emma DeSouza
Emma DeSouza has won three court cases against the UK’s Home Office, which has argued that she is a British citizen.
# uk-government - Monday 19 August, 2019
# Hard Border
# Hard Border
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is set to declare later that the UK is facing a Brexit ‘crisis’.
# uk-government - Sunday 16 September, 2018
# Yes We Khan
# Yes We Khan
There’s only six months to go until the UK is due to leave the EU.
# uk-government - Sunday 15 July, 2018
# Scandal
# Scandal
Andrew Griffiths said he was “deeply ashamed” and would seek professional help.
# uk-government - Thursday 12 July, 2018
# White Paper
# White Paper
The controversial plan prompted the resignation of chief negotiator David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
# uk-government - Monday 2 April, 2018
# Anniversary
# Anniversary
The case sparked a political firestorm when Boris Johnson told a parliamentary committee she was in Iran “training journalists”.
# uk-government - Thursday 1 February, 2018
Lord Michael Bates declared his intention to resign over the “discourtesy” of arriving late to a half-hour questions session.
# uk-government - Wednesday 31 January, 2018
# Under Pressure
# Under Pressure
May is under pressure from across her Conservative party over her Brexit strategy.
# uk-government - Wednesday 8 November, 2017
# Priti Patel
# Priti Patel
Another diplomatic incident has cropped up for British Prime Minister Theresa May’s scandal-prone government.
# uk-government - Monday 23 October, 2017
# Travel Paid For
# Travel Paid For
The travel and accommodation costs will be covered for women on low incomes, under a new government scheme.
# uk-government - Wednesday 23 August, 2017
# Whoops
# Whoops
The Home Office said letters had been mistakenly sent out to around 100 people.
# uk-government - Thursday 17 November, 2016
# Diplomatic Differences
# Diplomatic Differences
Yesterday, the Northern Irish Secretary of State said “the whole of Lough Foyle is within the UK”.
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