Essex County Council has set out answers to questions after the case was detected. Picture: PA The South African variant of Covid-19 has been detected in one part of Essex. As a result targeted testing will be offered to residents … Read More
The prime minister will be analyzing data on coronavirus case numbers, hospital admissions, deaths and the impact of the vaccine rollout ahead of his announcement on Monday. The PM will set out his road map out of lockdown next week … Read More
Boris Johnson today told the SNP “no-one’s going to stop me” visiting Scotland after they accused him of putting politics before public health. The Prime Minister has come under fire for his trip to a vaccine production firm north of the border after it emerged there had been a coronavirus outbreak at the site. Newspaper the Daily … Read More
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Hannah McKay/PA) The UK could see another 50,000 deaths from coronavirus, a scientist advising the Government has warned, as the Prime Minister said he was “deeply sorry” for every life lost. Boris Johnson insisted he … Read More
Starmer claims fatalities caused by the government’s ‘huge’ mistakes. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces new lockdown measures in the UK parliament. Photo: House of Commons/PA Wire British Prime Minister Boris Johnson put England on notice that the national lockdown … Read More
Britain’s problem is low productivity. EU membership could have helped. The ghost haunting the British economy is low productivity. A study covering 2007–2016 shows a productivity growth per year of 0.1 percent, below Germany, France, and Spain and at par with … Read More
Clement Beaune , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — The U.K. isn’t “fully sovereign” after its split from the European Union because it still needs to follow the bloc’s rules to maintain access to its market, France’s Junior Minister for EU Affairs, Clement … Read More
The new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus first identified in the United Kingdom and now present in many other countries was spreading at great speed. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears on BBC TV’s The Andrew Marr Show in … Read More
Divisions over Brexit, both political and social, remain deep and are likely to last for years, despite a muted end to the saga overshadowed by the global health crisis. Britain on Friday began a new year and life outside the … Read More
Officials feared Republic would use its European Community presidency to set agenda. Former taoiseach Charles Haughey with former minister for foreign affairs Gerry Collins (front right). Photograph: Eddie Kelly/The Irish Times British officials strongly resisted what they regarded as attempts … Read More