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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at a press conference in London's Downing Street, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2021,

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Vaccine passports will be introduced in nightclubs and places with large crowds, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

08/12/2021

British PM Boris Johnson walks past a Christmas tree as he leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly PMQ at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Dec. 1, 2021.

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08/12/2021

Life jackets, sleeping bags and damaged inflatable small boat are pictured on the shore in Wimereux, northern France, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021 in Calais, northern France.

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26/11/2021

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, greets French President Emmanuel Macron, at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow

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26/11/2021

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The new electric TX eCity taxi is connected to a sample electric vehicle charger at the Battersea power station in London.

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Around 145,000 new charging points per year will be created under the new legislation.

24/11/2021

Boris Johnsons stumbled through a speech to business leaders before talking about a recent visit to Peppa Pig World

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The UK’s prime minister Boris Johnson left business leaders bemused after stumbling through a speech in which he lost his notes, before talking about a recent visit to a children’s theme park.

23/11/2021

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly sesion of Prime Ministers Questions at Parliament in London, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021.

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The UK's prime minister has vowed to tighten ethics rules for politicians after scandals over lobbying and second jobs outside parliament, that have damaged UK politics.

17/11/2021

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, and Alok Sharma, President of the Cop26 in London on 14 November 2021.

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The UK hosted nearly 200 world leaders at the UN climate conference in Glasgow for two weeks, ending on Saturday with a climate pact that many criticised as making not enough progress.

14/11/2021

Richard Ratcliffe, husband of detained charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, talks to the media following a meeting at the UK foreign office in London.

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Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, ended his hunger strike.

13/11/2021

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, Nov. 10, 2021.

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10/11/2021

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is shown around a CT scan room during a visit to Hexham General Hospital in Northumberland, England, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021.

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Opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the British PM of 'running scared' following last week's failed attempt by the government to overhaul the policing system for parliamentary ethics.

08/11/2021

Fish are stacked aboard the Boulogne sur Mer based trawler "Jeremy Florent II" in Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020.

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02/11/2021

Will COP26 achieve anything meaningful in November 2021?

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01/11/2021

The British trawler kept by French authorities docks at the port in Le Havre, western France, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021.

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30/10/2021

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with fundraisers for the Royal British Legion and purchases a poppy in front of 10 Downing in London, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021.

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The UK will donate 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to developing countries, Boris Johnson said.

30/10/2021

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Westport Care Home in east London on September 7, 2021.

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19/10/2021

Candles are lit next to a portrait of British Lawmaker David Amess during a vigil for him at St Michaels Church, in Leigh-on-Sea, England Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021.

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18/10/2021

In this Monday Oct. 14, 2019 file photo people walk past pro-Brexit graffiti in West Belfast Northern Ireland.

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The EU Commission is offering concessions that are likely to fall short of the UK's demands, leading to fears of a further deterioration in relations and even a trade war.

13/10/2021

In this Friday, March 6, 2020 file photo, the front page of the Evening Standard is displayed at Bond Street Station, in London.

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A parliamentary report said that hesitancy to impose an unpopular lockdown meant that Britain's government missed the opportunity to contain the virus.

12/10/2021

An oil-splattered statue of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson by artist Hugo Farmer installed by Greenpeace activists stands at Downing Street

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Greenpeace activists put up an oil-splattered statue of Boris Johnson outside Downing Street on Monday, urging the prime minister to block the proposed development of a huge new oilfield off the Scottish coast.

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