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LONDON – A former leader of Scotland acknowledged on Wednesday that she deleted WhatsApp messages sent during the COVID-19 pandemic, but she insisted that anything of relevance to how policymaking was conducted had been made available for…

LONDON – Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his efforts to balance the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 as he gave a second day of testimony Thursday to Britain's public inquiry into the government's response to the…

London —  Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his handling of COVID-19 on Wednesday at a public inquiry into the pandemic, saying his government “got some things wrong” but did its best. Johnson began two days of…

LONDON – Britain's government was too late in taking action against the coronavirus during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, the U.K.'s chief medical adviser said Tuesday. Responding to questions about the U.K.'s actions in handling…

LONDON – Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, struggled to come to grips with much of the science during the coronavirus pandemic, his chief scientific advisor said Monday.In keenly awaited testimony to the country’s public…

Citing a diary entry by Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, Dermot Keating, a counsel to the official Covid inquiry, said Johnson referred to…

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested that the coronavirus pandemic was “pathetic” and “nature’s way of dealing with old people,” an inquiry was told. In his notebook in 2020, the government’s former…

LONDON – The former top aide to ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday painted a picture of widespread chaos and dysfunction in the U.K. government during the coronavirus pandemic. In keenly awaited testimony to the country’s…

Nine summers ago, Boris Johnson, who was then the mayor of London, let it be known that he was looking for a constituency where he could stand as a Member of Parliament. On August 26, 2014, he whacked in (Johnson’s words) an application to…

LONDON – A U.K. court on Thursday rejected the British government's request to keep former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries from being made public at an official COVID-19 inquiry. The Cabinet Office…