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Boris Johnson apologises for Hillsborough comments

Boris Johnson has added his voice to the chorus of apologies made to the families of Hillsborough victims and those who survived the disaster.


The Mayor of London was editor of the Spectator in 2004, when it ran an article claiming that the people ...

Boris Johnson as leader would give Tories a six point bounce , says new poll

Some Tory MPs are also looking at Mr Johnson as a potential party leader.
Mr Johnson’s public profile has been enhanced by the London Olympics, and on Monday he upstaged Mr Cameron with a crowd-pleasing speech at a parade of Olympic athletes.
Mr Joh...

Boris Johnson as Tory leader ‘would boost party’, says new poll

Some Tory MPs are also looking at Mr Johnson as a potential party leader.
Mr Johnson’s public profile has been enhanced by the London Olympics, and on Monday he upstaged Mr Cameron with a crowd-pleasing speech at a parade of Olympic athletes.
Mr Joh...

Olympic and Paralympic Athletes’ Parade: Boris Johnson pays tribute to Athletes and games makers

Mr Johnson promised to keep it short as the hundreds of athletes behind him had been on floats all day waving their way through the capital and not allowed to "touch a drop of beer".


Describing the wrap-up as the "final tear sodden juddering climax...

Britain shines as a beacon of enlightenment in the world

“A shot?” I said.
“Yes,” said the fastest man on three wheels, giving me a wink. “I had a boost.” I wasn’t sure that I wanted to hear about this, but curiosity prevailed.
I looked around the tent to see if we were being overheard. “Wha...

David Cameron’s first reshuffle prompts outrage at sidelining of Heathrow rebels

Iain Duncan Smith openly defied Mr Cameron by turning down his offer to move from Work and Pensions to Justice, saying that he wanted to stay in his post in order to oversee the implementation of a new form of benefit, the Universal Credit.
In a sign ...

The beautiful nation of Croatia is placing its head in the Brussels noose

There were no good guys in that psychotic conflict. At different times and in different places there were members of all religious and ethnic groups – including the Muslims – who exhibited varying degrees of awfulness. And yet the nightmare had a ...

Paralympians have more of the Right Stuff than anyone on Earth

That’s what transfixed my family and hundreds of millions of others. We were watching human beings overcome what we had always assumed was a basic limitation of our species to break a barrier that was physically or psychologically insurmountable. We...

Boris Johnson leads the way in support of gay marriage

The Out4marriage campaign is calling on laws to be changed to allow gay couples to marry.


According to their website there will be YouTube posts from politicians, from all political parties, and celebrities who support the campaign.


Yesterday Mr ...

Boris Johnson tells David Cameron to ‘stop pussyfooting around’ and fix the economy

Calling on his rival to be more "ambitious" on the economy, the Mayor said in an interview with the London Evening Standard: “The Government needs to stop pussyfooting around.
"The way to get business really motoring in the UK is to cut taxes, cut r...