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As temperatures soar, the heat rises for a PM in splendid isolation

21 July 202119 January 2024Political Fiber0

For the first time in its 167 year history, the Met Office issued an “amber extreme heat warning” for parts of the UK with the sweltering temperatures set to peak on Thursday at over 33C. The country bakes but Boris Johnson may be feeling the heat more than most after a truly surreal turn of […]

Professor warns UK is at the ‘start of an epidemic in the young’ as R Rate rises back above 1

4 June 202119 January 2024Political Fiber0

A leading scientist has warned the latest Covid data suggests “the start of an epidemic in the young”, putting more pressure on the government to delay lifting restrictions on June 21. Fears that ‘Freedom Day’ will be postponed are rising following confirmation that the UK’s R rate for the coronavirus is back above one. The […]

Johnson declares ‘the end is in sight’ while Sage says at least 32,000 more could die with Covid

22 February 202119 January 2024Anita Alig0

Boris Johnson has laid out England’s exit from lockdown, declaring “the end is in sight” on the day the UK passed 129,498 deaths of people with Covid-19. The prime minister’s “cautious but also irreversible” road map out of lockdown is, he hopes, a “one way road to freedom” where even nightclubs could be open on […]

PM to publish roadmap out of lockdown as R rate falls – but death toll rises past 111,000

5 February 202119 January 2024Anita Alig0

The coronavirus rate of infection in the UK is back below 1, figures released today reveal, confirming the epidemic is finally shrinking, a month into England’s third lockdown. Boris Johnson is set to publish the government’s roadmap for lifting the lockdown restrictions in England on February 22, as data confirmed a decrease in positive coronavirus […]

DUP ‘absolutely astounded’ to be accused of stoking tensions over Brexit border crisis

4 February 202119 January 2024Anita Alig0

Arlene Foster claims she is “absolutely astounded” at suggestions her Democratic Unionist Party is stoking tensions to undermine the Northern Ireland protocol that has rocked post Brexit relations and put at risk the Good Friday Agreement. Foster’s comments follows revelations that border staff at Northern Ireland’s ports were stood down by a DUP minister who […]

Vaccine row explodes as EU triggers article 16 and is condemned in Belfast, Dublin and London

29 January 202119 January 2024Anita Alig0

The EU’s decision to trigger a Brexit clause to block the export of Covid vaccines to Northern Ireland has been roundly condemned in Belfast, Dublin and London. The governments of the UK and Ireland have held “frantic talks” to try and “avert a full scale crisis” after the European commission triggered article 16 of the […]

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As temperatures soar, the heat rises for a PM in splendid isolation

Professor warns UK is at the ‘start of an epidemic in the young’ as R Rate rises back above 1

PM to publish roadmap out of lockdown as R rate falls – but death toll rises past 111,000

DUP ‘absolutely astounded’ to be accused of stoking tensions over Brexit border crisis

Vaccine row explodes as EU triggers article 16 and is condemned in Belfast, Dublin and London

NHS waiting lists fall is due to surging excess deaths

Northern Ireland talks extension signals hope for Assembly return

Mark Drakeford quits as Wales’ first minister

Five-point plan to cut immigration threatens families and the NHS

Emergency Rwanda bill threatens to split Tory Party further

It’s a ‘myth’ to believe voters don’t want another EU referendum, says Curtice

Shoppers pay price of food suppliers’ profiteering, says watchdog

Sunak is ‘lost in La-La land with the reverse Midas touch’

Experts ‘extremely alarmed’ by detection of ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

Senior doctors pay deal with government leaves RCN ‘appalled’