Britain’s biggest step out of lockdown has arrived with a massive dash of déjà-vu as hugs, holidays and indoor pints and meals returned with the reopening of hospitality amid warnings the country might be loosening restrictions too soon. Social distancing measures and restrictions remained in place on ‘Freedom Day’ as Britain’s big reopening was overshadowed […]
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Boris Johnson has warned that the route out of lockdown may face “serious disruption” because of the India variant, just two days before the biggest lifting of restrictions in England for a year. Rising numbers of cases combined with “important unknowns” about the variant, including how transmissible it is, means “hard choices” may have to […]
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Angela Rayner has come out fighting following a turbulent 24 hours in which she was scapegoated for Labour’s disastrous Super Thursday results and sacked as chair of the party by Sir Keir Starmer, who had just said he took “full responsibility” for the results. However, his rush to be seen to act decisively, with speed […]
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Surge testing is being deployed in east London after “several” variant cases of coronavirus were detected in the community. The Tower Hamlets Council’s website confirmed “a small number” of “variants of concern” that were “first identified in Brazil and South Africa” have been identified in Tower Hamlets and tweeted that ”enhanced Covid-19 testing” will be […]
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