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UK PM grilled over public funds given to ex-mistress
LONDON, UK- In another blow to integrity, United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has been quizzed over whether he acted with ‘honesty and integrity in his relationship with US businesswoman and ex-mistress Jennifer M. Arcuri while he was Mayor of London.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic U. Raab demoted
LONDON, United Kingdom- As part of a major Cabinet reshuffle, United Kingdom Foreign Secretary has been demoted to Justice Secretary and replaced by Elizabeth M. Truss who was Trade Secretary.
‘We will never go down without fighting for this country’- Hon Flax-Charles
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As national pride and sentiments of breaking off the shackles of colonialism continue to grow in the Virgin Islands, Junior Minister for Trade and Economic Development Hon Shereen D. Flax-Charles (AL) has declared that the [British] Virgin Islands has been supporting itself for centuries with little help from the United Kingdom (UK) and it will not allow those efforts to be wasted.
UK PM angers citizens after breaking tax promise
LONDON, UK - The Government of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has voted overwhelmingly to hike taxes for working-class Britons and route the revenues into paying for a post-pandemic catchup programme in the National Health Service (NHS), going back on their campaign promise.
UK PM’s ‘dodgy dealings hang over him like a bad smell’- Labour Party MP
LONDON, UK- “These latest revelations prove that the prime minister appears to be allergic to telling the truth about the dodgy dealings and the web of conflicts of interests, secret loans and cover-ups that hang over him like a bad smell.”
‘We must not fall victim' to old divide & rule trick- Deputy Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As the Virgin Islands observes Emancipation Day today, August 1, 2021, Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has urged Virgin Islanders to reflect and be grateful for the progress made as a people and to reject attempts by forces to bring about division that can derail the territory and its young democracy.
More hypocrisy! UK Gov’t accused of trying to muzzle free press
LONDON, United Kingdom- While the United Kingdom Government, through the Commission of Inquiry (CoI), seem to have no issue with publicly disclosing documents not yet laid in the Virgin Islands House of Assembly (HoA), it is busy at home trying to guard its secrets, allegedly even at the expense of the sacred press freedom.
5 UK MPs from PM Johnson’s party found guilty of breaching Code of Conduct
LONDON, United Kingdom- As the United Kingdom-sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI) called by ex-Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert, the close buddy of the beleaguered UK Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson aka ‘Boris’, has been nailing Virgin Islands legislators to the cross for not complying to the Register of Interests Act, they need not look at the VI to find persons with sin as it is right at home in the UK, and in the UK government.
‘Hypocritical’ UK PM forced to quarantine following public backlash
LONDON, UK- The embattled United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson aka ‘Boris’ had planned to escape mandatory quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19 but public pressure forced him to abort plans.
UK Gov’t hunting whistleblowers in Matt Hancock resignation scandal
LONDON, UK – In an alarming move that again brings the integrity of the United Kingdom (UK) government into question, it has embarked on a manhunt over the leaked footage that led to the resignation of UK Health Secretary Matthew J.D. Hancock.

