UK PM Boris Johnson announces Southend-on-Sea will be given city status by the Queen, fulfilling a long-held ambition of the late MP Sir David Amess, who was fatally stabbed on Friday bbc.in/3ASfGuA
UK PM Boris Johnson says Queen has agreed that Southend-on-Sea will be "accorded the city status it so clearly deserves", in honour of MP Sir David Amess, who had long campaigned for the change bbc.in/3lQGC9S
@BBCBreaking It’s all about @BorisJohnson , let us not forget
@BBCBreaking So if you want your town to become a city .....
@BBCBreaking Doesn't this set a rather dangerous precedent for the route to City status for other campaigns for recognition.
@BBCBreaking @bbc5live So I take it that Batley is now a city…..
@BBCBreaking Why take meaningful action about the toxicity in politics when the media will lap up a hollow gesture instead?
@BBCBreaking Gesture politics? Is this a good thing? Sure he would preferred this happened in his life time?