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LATEST BORIS JOHNSON MP NEWS UPDATES ON BREXIT AND EU

'Britain wants a divorce... but an open relationship the day after': Ireland's leader sparks outrage with Brexit jibe at Theresa May

18/11/17 14:38

Shortly after meeting the Prime Minister, Irish chief Taoiseach Leo Varadkar likened Theresa May to a want-away wife who wants to sleep around, as he sunk Brexit talks to a new low. Demanding a five-year transition phase, the Irish chief added: 'After 40 years of marriage, most of them good, now Britain wants a divorce but an open relationship the day after.' Ireland warned it could block the start of trade talks at Christmas without new answers on the Brexit border today despite a new diplomatic push. Theresa May sat down with Irish premier Leo Varadkar on the margins of a summit in Sweden today while Boris Johnson held bilateral talks in Ireland....read

17/11/17 15:47

The government is said to be preparing to hand over the cash despite fears it will be seen as a 'blackmail ransom' for a jailed British mother.

17/11/17 11:45

The Foreign Secretary has warned Theresa May that he cannot accept a further 'unilateral' increase in the size of the divorce payment without written guarantees from Brussels on a future trade deal.

16/11/17 19:30

This weekend a bizarre collection of former sportsmen, fading soap stars, glamour girls and Boris Johnson's father will find themselves dumped in a tropical rainforest in Australia.

16/11/17 17:38

Diplomats are reportedly trying to find a way to get around UN sanctions which have stopped the UK paying Iran a 1970s arms deal debt to secure Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release.

16/11/17 01:22

The Shah of Iran paid for and ordered 1,750 Cheiftan tanks from Britain but only 185 had been delivered by the time he was toppled in 1979 and the order was cancelled.

15/11/17 18:36

Boris Johnson will finally meet the husband of jailed British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to discuss the possibility of her being offered 'diplomatic protection'.

14/11/17 18:45

Beaming in the pre-jungle photoshoot, the group appeared delighted - and showed no trace of nerves for the perilous challenges they face in the jungle.

14/11/17 11:14

Brexit Secretary David Davis (pictured) is said to be 'angry' at claims from the pair they should be 'getting on with' sorting out Britain's departure from the EU.

14/11/17 08:59

Stanley Johnson, 77, was spotted at Brisbane Airport and said he was 'excited' about joining a host of stars in the jungle - before confessing he had not told Boris about his plans to join the reality show.

14/11/17 08:19

Stanley Johnson, 77, was spotted at Brisbane Airport this morning and told reporters he was 'excited' about joining a host of stars in the jungle.

13/11/17 11:24

The two big beasts of the Brexit campaign fell out last year after Mr Gove spectacularly torpedoed Mr Johnson’s Tory leadership hopes.

13/11/17 09:01

The Prime Minister must stop the selfish power games of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, who are once again playing selfish power games in an attempt to force a hard line on Brexit.

13/11/17 08:50

Boris Johnson has been at the centre of more than his fair share of embarrassing photos, but this one is more awkward than most.

13/11/17 08:42

The Cabinet heavyweights made a series of veiled threats in a secret missive to the Prime Minister – which contained instructions on how she should deliver a ‘hard Brexit’.

13/11/17 08:09

It was a very British coup. No troops or tanks, just a letter delivered by hand on behalf of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove to Gavin Barwell, the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff.

13/11/17 01:33

Jeremy Corbyn was last night accused of hypocrisy over his stance on Iran as the full extent of his links with the repressive regime were revealed.

13/11/17 01:01

Although both were on the winning side in the EU referendum, they famously fell out rancorously during the subsequent Tory leadership election. But since then, they have buried the hatchet.

12/11/17 22:12

Ten thousand current and former members of the military, dignitaries and members of the public gathered at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday to honour Britain's war dead.

12/11/17 15:12

Jeremy Corbyn is calling for Boris Johnson to be sacked from his post immediately as Foreign Secretary for 'putting citizens at risk'.

12/11/17 02:25

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, is currently serving a five year sentence in a notorious prison in Tehran after being found guilty of plotting against the government, a claim she has denied.

11/11/17 17:35

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is currently serving a five-year term in a Tehran prison after being accused of espionage while on holiday there last year. Richard Ratcliffe wants Johnson to meet her.

11/11/17 13:58

The Foreign Secretary was attending a dinner in Bath to celebrate ties between the two nations when he claimed that banning the sport would be 'political correctness gone mad'.

11/11/17 01:26

British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Iran has been making birthday presents for her daughter from her cell as the three-year-old clings to the hope they will be reunited for Christmas.

09/11/17 17:54

The Foreign Secretary said the US leader's late-night Twitter habit has helped him reach corners of the globe and people 'few other presidents have ever done'.

09/11/17 16:17

The Foreign Secretary has faced calls to quit after he said charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was 'simply teaching people journalism' during a 2016 trip to April.

09/11/17 01:00

The Foreign Secretary faced calls to resign after he mistakenly said Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, was arrested after teaching journalists in the country.

08/11/17 12:51

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson wrongly said charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was 'simply teaching people journalism' during a 2016 trip to Iran in April last year.

08/11/17 08:40

It is often ‘Get Boris’ time these days, seldom more so than in the Commons yesterday when he was delivering a regular update on anti- terror policies in Syria and Iraq, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

07/11/17 23:30

The Prime Minister has refused to fire her Aid Secretary despite the claims she brazenly broke the ministerial code and misled journalists about her 12 secret meetings in Israel.

07/11/17 19:53

Richard Ratcliffe, from London, said his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was inconsolable when told the British Foreign's remarks could lead to her sentence being extended.

07/11/17 19:49

Speaking to MPs in the Commons, the Foreign Secretary admitted his clumsy language about what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been doing in Iran 'could have been clearer'.

07/11/17 07:49

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arrested in Iran last year on spying charges, faces her sentence being doubled after she was hit by fresh propaganda charge.

05/11/17 15:15

The FBI has named economist George Papadopoulos and Maltese academic Joseph Mifsud as crucial to their investigation.

02/11/17 11:43

Following the disastrous election, and after years of being the loyal lieutenant, who was never ruffled in a crisis, Fallon (pictured) had been persuaded it was his time to run for the big job.

02/11/17 00:30

Officials at the Foreign Office are also unhappy with Mr Johnson’s style and behaviour, according to the political journal New Statesman.

01/11/17 09:10

Allies of the Home Secretary say that if Theresa May resigns before Brexit, she would try to team up with her former foe rather than run in her own right.

27/10/17 15:58

The Foreign Secretary travelled to Lisbon as part of his Brexit charm offensive and urged the Portuguese to come to the UK's aid in the stalled negotiations.

23/10/17 21:31

Boris Johnson was spotted resting his eyes about an hour into Theresa May's statement while she talked about the future deal she hopes to strike with Brussels.

23/10/17 17:53

The Foreign Secretary will praise US secretary of state Rex Tillerson for opening the door to dialogue with Kim Jong-un, even though Mr Trump has said negotiating is a ‘waste of time’.

23/10/17 16:43

The Foreign Secretary used a major foreign policy speech to say the global community should not need a nuclear weapon to be used in anger before re-learning the lessons of World War Two.

17/10/17 11:42

The Foreign Secretary condemned the 'reckless' North Korean nuclear test and warned that being able to fit a warhead to a missile would present a 'new order of threat' from the regime.

16/10/17 14:29

David Cameron's plans to cut the number of MPs from 650 to 600 could see Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson lose their current constituencies.

15/10/17 20:55

The Foreign Secretary indulged in a high stakes photo opportunity to take his Czech counterpart Ivo Sramek rowing on a lake in the grounds of the lavish residence.

13/10/17 17:45

The Foreign Secretary is to make a trip to Moscow towards the end of the year, with the crisis in North Korea and instability in Syria high on the agenda.

12/10/17 02:21

North Korean diplomats owe more than £250,000 in congestion charges and £4,500 in parking fines, Boris Johnson has disclosed. Foreign diplomats have racked up £100million in total.

10/10/17 08:48

The PM told Brussels the 'ball is in your court' and urged the EU to help forge a 'unique' relationship, as she spoke to MPs, but Mr Johnson missed the beginning of her speech and shuffled in late.

08/10/17 17:43

The extraordinary disclosure came as Mr Johnson was accused of wrecking Theresa May’s hopes of achieving unity at last week’s party conference by challenging her stance on Brexit.

08/10/17 17:15

The disclosure that Mr Davis wanted his fellow Brexiteer kicked out of the Cabinet came as some observers expressed ‘surprise’ at Mr Davis’s partying at last week’s conference.

08/10/17 16:56

Senior Tories have rallied around Theresa May as the ringleader of the plot to oust her was roundly condemned. Mrs May has faced criticism in the wake of her disastrous conference speech.

08/10/17 15:53

Ruth Davidson today urged Theresa May to make sure the right people are doing the 'right job' in Cabinet amid hints from the PM Boris Johnson could be demoted.

05/10/17 17:05

Stanley Johnson said a recent speech by the European Commission president convinced him the EU was moving 'at an ever-increasing speed in a direction we really don’t want to go'.

05/10/17 00:02

Amber Rudd has been caught angrily demanding that Boris Johnson gets out of his seat to take part in a standing ovation for his rival Theresa May during the Conservative Party Conference.

04/10/17 13:53

Two Tory MPs demanded Mr Johnson be fired this morning and Theresa May's deputy said it was not an 'acceptable' or 'sensitive' use of language.

04/10/17 13:30

The Foreign Secretary was confronted by the band of CWU postmen performing Jeremy Corbyn's anthem outside the Tory conference in Manchester last night.

04/10/17 01:58

Michael Fallon used his main speech to Tory conference to lash Boris Johnson today, joking at his expense about the Vote Leave campaign and his performance as Foreign Secretary.

04/10/17 01:47

Boris Johnson's off-colour jibe was greeted by nervous laughter at the meeting in the Midland Hotel and came hours after his main speech to the conference.

04/10/17 01:07

Delegates in Manchester may have swooned over Boris Johnson for his powerful speech, but colleagues like Scottish Secretary David Mundell had the knives out.

04/10/17 00:13

Until Boris Johnson took to the podium, this week’s Tory conference was in danger of being the dullest in recent history, writes PETER OBORNE.

03/10/17 23:02

The Foreign Secretary set out his vision for a bright future outside the EU to a packed hall, saying Britain will be freed to operate on the global stage.

03/10/17 22:38

On the day the Tory conference finally achieved lift-off, it was Boris Johnson’s zest for the English language (and at one point even a spot of Khmer) that galvanised the crowd.

03/10/17 19:28

Manfred Weber, leader of the centre-right EPP grouping and a key ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said the Foreign Secretary was stopping Britain adopting a 'clear' position.

03/10/17 15:15

The Brexit Secretary told the Conservative conference he would not be diverted by lurid headlines about a deadlock in Brussels.

03/10/17 14:27

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said there was a real danger that destabilising Theresa May would 'open the door' to Labour taking power.

03/10/17 01:31

Cabinet heavyweights yesterday lined up to rebuke Mr Johnson after speculation and infighting over his leadership ambitions continued to overshadow the party’s conference.

02/10/17 20:46

The Foreign Secretary has plunged the start of the Tory Party conference into turmoil by using an interview to set out his four 'red lines' on the Brexit talks.

02/10/17 17:50

The Chancellor urged the Tories to fight for free markets as he said the last time a socialist government was in power tax rates rose to up to 98 per cent.

02/10/17 16:41

Still weakened by the fallout from her election disaster, the Prime Minister was urged by some in her party yesterday to silence Mr Johnson, or remove him from her Cabinet.

02/10/17 08:34

Mario Rajoy told a press conference that police had maintained the rule of law by preventing the vote in a show of force which has drawn condemnation from world leaders.

01/10/17 22:01

MPs openly warned the Foreign Secretary to 'grow up or go' after he drew a series of red lines for negotiations with the EU.

01/10/17 20:39

The Scottish Tory leader insisted she was 'not standing' for the leadership - but stopped short of saying she never wanted the top job.

01/10/17 02:45

Mr Johnson is said to have begun quoting the opening lines of Mandalay during a visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the capital of Burma, in January.

30/09/17 21:11

Mr Johnson is said to have begun quoting the opening lines of Mandalay during a visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the capital of Burma, in January.

29/09/17 17:40

The poll, conducted by YouGov, found that 23 per cent of members backed Boris Johnson (pictured) and suggested that the foreign secretary's position on Brexit had paid off.

28/09/17 01:06

The Foreign Secretary said the transition period after we leave the EU - during which we cannot sign new trade deals with non-EU countries - should be ‘not too long’.

27/09/17 07:48

The Foreign Secretary, pictured, and other leading Leave campaigners including Michael Gove will appear at the Institute for Free Trade event at the Foreign Office.

27/09/17 01:33

SARAH VINE: If Philip Hammond had just replied: ‘Yes’ when asked if Theresa May was the right person to lead the Conservative Party, he would have done himself a huge favour.

25/09/17 20:46

The Chancellor pointedly declined to endorse the PM to carry on beyond 2022 amid increasing signs of friction between top ministers.

25/09/17 18:35

Labour's shadow foreign secretary said Boris Johnson should take a test on the daytime TV show which would reveal he was the father of many of the promises made by the Leave campaign.

25/09/17 15:38

David Lammy, a former Labour candidate for London Mayor, demanded 'we need to put race back on the agenda of this country' at a meeting on the fringes of the Labour conference in Brighton.

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