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By Hamed Chapman London, (The Muslim News): Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was under renewed pressure to resign Friday after his party’s Chair, Oliver Dowden, said someone must take responsibility for losing two byelections on the same night. “Our supporters are distressed and disappointed by recent events, and I share their feelings,” Dowden said […]

7th Jun 2022

UK: Johnson to carry on despite suffering significant rebellion by Tory MPs

By Hamed Chapman London (The Muslim News): Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt and Tom Tugendhat have been installed among the initial favourites to eventual replace Boris Johnson after the Prime Minister suffered a much worse revolt in a vote of no confidence from the parliamentary Conservative party. Johnson secured the backing of only 211 of […]

19th Apr 2022

Johnson urged to press Modi on unreturned remains of UK Muslims killed in Gujarat

By Ahmed J Versi and Hamed Chapman London, (The Muslim News): Boris Johnson is being urged to take up the case of the unreturned remains of three British Muslims murdered during the Gujarat riots in February 2002 when he meets Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in India this week. Imran Dawood was the only survivor from […]

22nd Feb 2022

Covid-19 self-isolation and free tests to end in England

By Hamed Chapman London, (The Muslim News): Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has called time on free Covid-19 tests, routine contact tracing and any requirement to self isolate even though admitting that the pandemic is not over. “Because of the efforts we have made as a country over the past two years we can now deal […]

4th Feb 2022

UK: Problems mount for Johnson as four senior aides quit

By Hamed Chapman and Ahmed J Versi London, (The Muslim News): A quarter of senior aides to Boris Johnson have left Downing Street creating more uncertainty about his future as Prime Minister amid the fallout from whether he can be trusted anymore following the so-called partygate scandal. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, the favourite […]

31st Jan 2022

UK: Tory MPs start to turn on Johnson

By Hamed Chapman and Ahmed J Versi London, (The Muslim News): Several more Conservative MPs, including the Prime Minister’s predecessor, publicly hit out against Boris Johnson Monday following the publication of an outline of an interim report that found a succession of gatherings held at Downing Street “should not have been allowed to take […]

25th Jan 2022

UK: Johnson under renewed pressure to resign announces tourism boost

By Hamed Chapman London, (The Muslim News): Despite being in the midst of a third Covid wave, Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, Tuesday called on international tourists to visit the UK but failed to distract attention away from renewed demands for him to resigning following fresh allegations about holding yet another illegal party in Downing […]

13th Jan 2022

UK: Cabinet backs Johnson despite admission of breaking lockdown

By Hamed Chapman London, (The Muslim News): Virtually all of Boris Johnson’s cabinet have lined up to express varying degrees of support for the Prime Minister in the face of several Tory MPs joining opposition leaders in calling for him to resign after he admitted attending an illegal Downing Street party and making a […]

16th Dec 2021

UK: Johnson refuses to act upon medics warning to reconsider Christmas plans

By Hamed Chapman London, (The Muslim News): Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has once again declined to act upon warnings by medics for people not to mix over the Christmas break if they don’t have to due to the soaring numbers of Covid-19 cases due to the new variant, Omicron. Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, issued […]

13th Dec 2021

UK: Johnson uses ministerial broadcast to ramp up vaccine programme

By Hamed Chapman and Ahmed J Versi London, (The Muslim News): Boris Johnson has used a ministerial broadcast to bring forward his questionable target to give every adult in the UK to the end of this month, warning that the country could be set to face an omicron “tidal wave” from the new variant that […]

24th Aug 2021

Deadlock remains on Afghanistan evacuation after G7 summit

By Hamed Chapman and Ahmed J Versi London, (The Muslim News): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted Tuesday that the evacuation from Afghanistan had so far been a huge success despite failing to persuade US President Joe Biden to extend the agreed deadline next week after an emergency virtual meeting of G7 leaders. “The […]

20th Jul 2021

Johnson announces vaccine certificates on ‘Freedom Day’

By Hamed Chapman London, (The Muslim News): Boris Johnson defiantly proceeded with removing most restrictions to contain the third wave of the Covid pandemic ripping across the UK which forced him to isolate to mar what was supposed to be Freedom Day. In an extraordinary U-turn, the British Prime Minister announced that vaccine passports will […]

6th Jul 2021

Starmer condemns Johnson’s plans to remove Covid restrictions as ‘reckless’

By Hamed Chapman London (The Muslim News): Labour Leader, Keir Starmer, has broken ranks with Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, over his controversial decision to lift almost all remaining Covid-19 restrictions for England from July 19, describing his plans as irresponsible. “The idea that, as the infection rate goes up, you throw off all protections […]

15th Jun 2021

UK: Johnson’s complacency blamed for failure to remove lockdown

By Hamed Chapman London, (The Muslim News): Boris Johnson is being blamed for being responsible himself in causing the delay in removing the remaining legal Covid restrictions by failing to put India earlier on the travel red list and effectively allowing the Delta [Indian] variant to manifest in the UK. “We are now in the […]

11th May 2021

Violence against Palestinian worshippers ‘not acceptable,’ says Johnson

By Hamed Chapman and Ahmed J Versi London, (The Muslim News): Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has remained silent himself in the face of Israeli police firing rubber-coated metal bullets and dispensing tear gas when invading Islam’s third most holy site at al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem allowing his spokesman to condemn the military attack on […]

23rd Feb 2021

UK: Govt Minister’s meeting with MCB Sec Gen was not official

By Ahmed J Versi London, (The Muslim News): Whitehall said Tuesday that Penny Mordaunt’s meeting with Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)’s newly elected Secretary General, Zara Mohammed, on Friday, was not an official meeting. Prime Minister, Boris Johnson’s official Spokesman told journalists that the Mordaunt met Mohammed in her capacity as a constituent MP. […]

24th Jan 2021

UK: Johnson says “deepening alliance” with US in call with Biden

By Ahmed J Versi London, (The Muslim News): Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke by phone to US President Joe Biden Saturday evening. The Prime Minister emphasised importance of special relationship with the US. This comes in the wake of Biden removing Winston Churchill’s bust from the Oval office, which got a lot of coverage in the […]

10th Jan 2021

UK: Exclusive: Khan urges PM to close places of worship as many mosques voluntarily close

By Nadine Osman London, (The Muslim News): Places of worship in London should shut immediately due to the risks of Covid-19 infection, the Mayor of London has said. Sadiq Khan’s demand was made following the closing of most major mosques in the capital despite being Covid-19 secure. Khan warned that more than one per cent […]

10th Dec 2020

UK, EU to continue trade talks until Sunday

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON (AA): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have agreed to continue negotiations on a post-Brexit trade deal until Sunday, according to a statement from Downing Street. Johnson said there were still “significant obstacles” which remain after his discussion on post-Brexit trade deal with […]

29th Oct 2020

Exclusive: London Mayor wins EHCR approval for statutory inquiry into Covid-19 disparities

By Hamed Chapman London, [The Muslim News]: The Mayor of London has succeeded in convincing the Equalities watchdog to undertake a statutory investigation on the issue of Covid-19 disparities. In a wide-ranging interview with The Muslim News Editor, Ahmed J Versi, Sadiq Khan also claimed credit for helping to persuade the Government to record ethnicity […]

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The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.