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EXCLUSIVE: Sky’s buzzy series on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has found its latest protagonists in the shape of Elementary actress Ophelia Lovibond and Brexit: The Uncivil War star Simon Paisley Day.
Deadline can reveal that Lovibond will star next to Kenneth Branagh as Johnson’s fiancee, Carrie Symonds, in This Sceptred Isle. Paisley Day will play Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s most senior adviser at the height of the coronavirus crisis, which provides the backdrop to the
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Johnson said that for Scots to go through another divisive referendum campaign in the midst of rebuilding after covid was “the last thing they need right now.”The PM said he found it “incredible then that the SNP would choose this moment to again push their campaign for separation”.He called on Tory activists to make the SNP listen to voters’ priorities.He told the conference: “They are intent on pushing for a referendum, regardless of the cost to Scotland and the whole of the UK."So that means
Papa Roach are pleading with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel to release vinyl records trapped due to Brexit.As the band revealed on Twitter, copies of their new ‘Greatest Hits’ album have been trapped in UK customs for over a week, and risk not arriving with fans by its release date next week (March 19).Tweeting at Johnson and Patel, the band wrote: “Our new #vinyl albums are stuck in UK customs for 10 days now.
polarised opinions about Wales’ future,He spoke as a new poll showed a dramatic rise in support for Welsh independence to nearly 40 per cent.Drakeford said: “I do think the effect of the pandemic and the last 12 months has been to polarise opinion in Wales about the way it should be governed.“What we have to do – to quote a Conservative member of the Senedd, David Melding – is we have to recognise that the union as it is, is over.
Labour leader said the Government has not “secured our borders in the way we should have done” after the new strain was detected in six travellers, three of whom came to Scotland, before the February quarantine rules were introduced.An enhanced contact tracing effort is under way after three Scottish residents tested positive for the new strain after flying into Aberdeen from Brazil, via Paris and London.Other passengers who were on the same flight from London are now being contacted.Starmer
It's been a tough few weeks for you, old chap - accused of shredding ancient books and furniture at Chequers, cocking your leg in inappropriate places, and dominating the time of one of Downing Street's official photographers...
Brown has also accused Johnson of undermining devolution with the Internal Market Act which will now allows Whitehall spending in Scotland bypass the Holyrood government.Brown said: “If he continues in this manner, Boris Johnson risks becoming the biggest recruiting sergeant for nationalism and will lose any hope of persuading Scotland’s undecided voters to stay with the UK.”He also said the UK nations had failed to work together through joint ministerial committees.Brown added: “Co-operation
It's Kenneth Branagh as you've never seen him before. For an actor who has donned insane mustaches (as detective Hercule Poirot) and a wide array of Shakespearean costumes, the first still of him as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Michael Winterbottom's TV drama This Sceptred Isle is perhaps Branagh at his most unrecognizable.
60-year-old actor will play the British Prime Minister in the new Sky Atlantic drama.The five-part series will chart the events surrounding the Prime Minister, the government, and the country in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic.Kenneth’s casting as Bojo was first announced last month, and now the first look image of him as the PM shows his utter transformation into the 56-year-old politician.Kenneth has swapped his neatly trimmed brown hair for Boris’ trademark wild blonde locks
Sky has released a first-look image of Kenneth Branagh as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in its upcoming Michael Winterbottom series This Sceptred Isle.
fresh constitutional clash around next week’s Westminster budget.The original £4 billion fund announced by Rishi Sunak last year was for England only but it has now been announced that Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will benefit from a share of the total pot, which has increased to £4.8 billion.Jack said: “This is actually true devolution in practice.
Boris Johnson has said he is “very optimistic” that he will be able to fully remove all of England’s coronavirus restrictions on June 21 but he added a note of warning as he said “nothing can be guaranteed”.