UK PM Boris Johnson briefed his Cabinet on the progress of last-minute BREXIT talks with the European Union. Britain is due to leave the 28-nation currency bloc on 31 October, and attempts for plans at the border between EU member Ireland and the U.K.’s Northern Ireland have been bumpy. Negotiations intensified last week after PM […]
Sunday, UK PM Johnson vowed he would not quit as Britain’s Prime Minister even if he fails to secure a deal to leave the European Union, saying only his Conservative government can deliver BREXIT on 31 October. At the beginning of his party’s annual conference in Manchester, PM Johnson wants to rally his party with […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday the next few days will be key to his chances of securing a BREXIT deal, and that an agreement with the EU is his aim and still possible. With less than 7 wks remaining until Britain is due to leave the European Union, PM Johnson has yet to […]
British PM Johnson has prepared plans to legally stop any BREXIT extension, the plan under consideration would see Johnson sending a letter alongside the request to extend Article 50 setting out that the government does not want any delay after 31 October. PM Boris Johnson is sticking to his BREXIT plan and will not seek […]
Resistance to a no-deal BREXIT does not sit well with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is hinting at ignoring recently passed legislation on talks about a British exit from the EU. Refusing to enact the just-passed legislation would be a violation of law, a step PM Johnson is apparently willing to take when asked if […]
European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said the EU’s executive body, which supervises BREXIT talks on behalf of Britain’s 27 European partners, is operating on the “working assumption” that Britain will leave the bloc 31 October, but… Tuesday, Boris Johnson suffered Key defections from his party, losing a working majority in Parliament and weakening his position […]
Monday, UK PM Boris Johnson said he will not delay leaving the European Union and made an unveiled threat that an election might be needed to deliver BREXIT. A senior U official confirmed that PM Johnson is planning to call a general election on 14 October if he loses a Key vote over a no-deal […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson challenged UK lawmakers to deliver on the BREXIT vote and not thwart his plans to take Britain out of the EU on 31 October. PM Johnson pledges to deliver BREXIT with or without a deal, but opposition lawmakers,and several lawmakers from his Conservatives want to act to rule out a […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will suspend Britain’s Parliament for more than a month before BREXIT, enraging opponents and raising the stakes in the nation’s most serious political event in decades. Cheered President Trump, Mr. Johnson launched the move to take the country out of the EU by 31 October with or without an exit deal, […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he is prepared to take BREXIT talks with the EU down to the very last minute before the 31 October exit deadline, and if necessary to take a decision to leave without a deal on that day. PM Johnson has 68 days to convince the EU to give him […]
Sunday, when President Trump said he had 2nd thoughts about escalating the trade dispute with China, he meant that he wished he had raised tariffs on Beijing even higher, the White House said. President Trump, who announced higher tariffs on Chinese goods last week, raised eyebrows during a meeting with UK PM Boris Johnson at […]
$GBP, $EUR, $USD Tuesday, the European Union rebuffed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demand that it reopen the BREXIT deal, saying Britain had failed to propose any realistic alternative to an agreed insurance policy for the border with Northern Ireland. After more than 3 years of BREXIT uncertainty, the UK is heading to a showdown […]
Monday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on France and Germany to change their position on BREXIT and negotiate a new exit deal for Britain, reiterating his stance that he is ready to leave the EU without a deal if they do not. With Britain set to leave the bloc at the end of October, […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that she would meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday evening to discuss Britain’s planned departure from the EU, adding that Berlin is prepared for a No-deal BREXIT. The fact is Germany is running scared of such an event. PM Johnson is seeking to persuade EU leaders to […]
The United States will enthusiastically support a no-deal BREXIT if that is what the British government decides to do, President Trump’s NSA John Bolton said Monday during a visit to London aimed at reassuring Britain over UK-US ties. Mr. Bolton told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that President Trump wants to see a successful British […]
FLASH: The British government is working on the assumption that the EU will not renegotiate its BREXIT deal and is preparing to leave the 28 nation bloc on 31 October without an agreement. Boris Johnson, the new British PM has promised to deliver BREXIT by the end of October “no ifs or buts,” plans to […]
FLASH: The further decline of the failed socialist EU experiment now will be hastened. The US Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Woody Johnson, predicts that President Trump and new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will enjoy a great relationship. The Ambassador made his comments during an TV interview Friday. “The new relationship between your […]
FLASH: Boris Johnson, a Man in a Hurry to Make Britain Great Again, MBGA With Britain’s departure from the EU due in less than 100 days, new Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a man in a hurry. But he is not rushing off to Brussels. The UK leader has no meetings scheduled with EU officials. […]
President Trump congratulated Boris Johnson, who was elected leader of Britain’s governing Conservative Party and the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom earlier Tuesday. Boris Johnson, Britain’s staunch BREXIT campaigner, was chosen as the UK’s next Prime Minister Tuesday, with a resounding mandate from the Conservative Party but conflicting demands from a politically divided […]
By Mark J. Lundeen $GLD, $SLV, $USD The Dow Jones in its BEV chart below is charging up the hill with eyes fixed on making new all-time highs. In the past week it has advanced 2.9% BEV points, leaving only 3.52% BEV points to go before it once again makes stock market history. Another couple […]
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) Faces Huge Competition U.S. pharma giant Merck and partner Samsung Bioepis are trying to take a big cut of Johnson & Johnson’s drug revenues. The companies have begun to market their “biosimilar” (a generic version of expensive biologic drugs) of Remicade—a copycat of J&J’s best-selling rheumatoid arthritis and immunology treatment (which […]
President Trump’s Order Allows Churches to Become Politically Active Thursday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that allows tax-exempt churches to more actively participate in politics and and may well free religious organizations to deny employees insurance coverage for birth-control pills. The order partially fulfills a campaign promise by President Trump, although he […]
