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Get jabbed: The London vaccine clinics offering walk-in boosters this week December 17, 2021 London’s first 24-hour vaccine clinic has opened today, in a bid to trim down queues that have prompted wait times of several hours. It comes after the prime minister amped up the national effort for people to receive a third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, further widening the programme earlier this week to include people [...]
Britain drops bid to reduce role of EU judges in Northern Ireland Protocol December 17, 2021 Britain has caved in to Brussels over the legal role of European judges in Northern Ireland as it pushes the EU to reform the country's protocol.
Scandal hit Johnson accepts responsibility for shock Lib Dems by election win December 17, 2021 The Lib Dems have capitalised on recent scandals which have rocked the government to pull off a win in the North Shropshire by election.
UK bricks and mortar sales have stronger-than-expected November, but Omicron threatens festive figures December 17, 2021 Black Friday deals on toys, clothes and tech pushed UK retail sales up by a better-than-expected 1.4 per cent in November, as shoppers hit the high street for their early Christmas shopping, the Office for National Statistics said today. Last month’s UK retail sales figures were 4.7 per cent higher than a year earlier, the [...]
Christmas Special: Books of 2021 from Mayhem to Madness December 17, 2021 Back into the mayhem: Chief of Staff by Gavin Barwell Gavin Barwell was a middle-ranking minister when he lost his Croydon Central seat at the cack-handed 2017 general election. He was 45, bright, personable and loyal, and he had sensed that defeat might come, promising in his concession speech to spend more time with his [...]
Boris Johnson ‘joined staff for pizza party’ during first Covid lockdown December 16, 2021 The Prime Minister joined Downing Street staff for a party at No 10 during the first Covid lockdown last May, it has been reported. The claims – reported jointly by The Independent and The Guardian – outline that Boris Johnson spent 15 minutes at a “pizza party” with staff on 15 May 2020. Around 20 [...]
Whitty: Covid-19 will ‘always be a problem’ but the situation will improve December 16, 2021 Covid-19 will “always be a problem”, the chief medical officer has warned, but that the pandemic situation is expected to improve every six months. The comments come as England records a new record of daily Covid-19 cases, with 88,367 new infections recorded in the last 24 hours. The latest record surpassed Wednesday’s previous record by [...]
Sunak’s quietly simplified tax policy could unshackle our economy – or strangle it December 16, 2021 Tax Day hardly sounds like the kind of day we want to mark on the calendar. It is a relatively new practice, when the government dumps an array of tax consultations, reforms and policy proposals on the Treasury’s website, all in one go. Unsurprisingly, they mostly happen without fanfare. But they do offer us helpful [...]
Shaun Bailey apologises ‘unreservedly’ for lockdown-breaking Number 10 party December 15, 2021 Former Tory London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey has quit a top committee role in the London Assembly, after being accused of breaking lockdown last Christmas to party in Number 10. Bailey, who is one of nine Conservatives on the 25-member London Assembly, will no longer sit as chair of the body’s Police and Crime Committee [...]
Get into the festive spirit at El Palace, Barcelona December 15, 2021 THE WEEKEND: Escape December drudgery and head off for a festive city break to kickstart that long-neglected Christmas spirit. Skip the traditional packed Christmas markets of Northern Europe and look south to Spain instead, where Barcelona piles on dazzling decorations, twinkling city-wide lights and chocolate-box markets to tick off the present shopping. It’s also much [...]