Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered England back into a national lockdown after the country passed the milestone of one million COVID-19 cases and a second wave of infections threatened to overwhelm the health service. The United Kingdom, which has the biggest official death toll in Europe from COVID-19, is grappling with more than 20,000 new coronavirus cases a day and scientists have warned the “worst case” scenario of 80,000 dead could be exceeded, Reuters reported.

British officials are prepared to water down Boris Johnson's controversial lawbreaking Brexit legislation in a move that could revive failing talks with the EU, according to people familiar with the matter. Negotiations over the two sides' future relationship have stalled, with the PM announcing last Friday that he will focus on preparations to leave the EU's single market and Customs Union at the year-end without a trade deal.

The UK and Ukraine have signed a bilateral agreement to support Kiev's sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia's "malign influence," British PM Boris Johnson's office says on Thursday, during the second day of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit.

The UK’s PM Johnson announced his goal to supply all households in Britain with electricity from offshore wind farms by 2030, news wires reported.The coronavirus pandemic should be used as a catalyst for a green energy revolution, Johnson said in a speech to an online conference of his Conservative Party on Tuesday.

British PM Boris Johnson and President of the European Commission  Ursula von der Leyen agreed in a phone call on Saturday to step up Brexit talks to close “significant gaps” barring a new trade partnership, Reuters reported. Тhe two sides have said this week’s round of negotiations aimed at getting a new, post-Brexit trade agreement from 2021 made some progress but not yielded a breakthrough.

British PM Boris Johnson will speak on Saturfdya to the EC President Ursula von der Leyen to "take stock" of post-Brexit trade negotiations and "discuss next steps", the BBC reported.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on Thursday that the Italian people cherish freedom as much as any other nation after British PM Boris Johnson recently put the UK's rising COVID-19 infection rates down to the country's superior love of liberty.

The United Nations and the UK will co-host a global climate summit on 12 December, the fifth anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement, the world organisation announced on Wednesday. “The climate emergency is fully upon us, and we have no time to waste. The answer to our existential crisis is swift, decisive, scaled up action and solidarity among nations," the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

The UK’s PM Boris Johnson told people on Tuesday to work from home where possible and ordered bars and restaurants to shut earlier in a bid to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of Covid-19, news wires reported.

Britain’s PM Boris Johnson lashed out at the EU on Monday as he won initial approval for a plan to breach the Brexit treaty, saying the move was needed because the bloc had refused to take a “revolver off the table” in trade talks, news wires reported.