Boris Johnson

image captionBoris Johnson speaks to G7 leaders by video linkBoris Johnson is pledging to donate most of the UK's surplus vaccine supply to poorer countries in a speech to a virtual G7 meeting on Friday. He urged rich countries to back a 100-day target for the developing new vaccines for…

The UK will share the majority of any future surplus COVID vaccines to help developing nations, Boris Johnson will confirm - as he urges world leaders to slash the time taken to create new jabs to 100 days. The prime minister will chair a meeting of G7 leaders via videolink…

image copyrightGetty Images Boris Johnson is facing fresh calls to compensate key workers suffering from "long Covid". A total of 65 MPs and peers have signed a letter to the PM, asking for it to be recognised as an occupational disease. Layla Moran, who chairs a committee of MPs looking…

B oris Johnson has said he is “concerned” about Dubai’s Princess Latifa after videos allegedly showed her imprisoned against her will. The Prime Minister said: “That’s something obviously that we are concerned about, that the UN Commissioner on Human Rights is looking at that and I think what we will…

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Behind the scenes Preliminary figures suggest vaccine campaign is cutting infections by around two-thirdsBoris Johnson last night delivered the news many have been waiting for when he pledged that the UK will soon take “cautious but irreversible” steps to lift lockdown restrictions.  Speaking at the daily press briefing, the prime minister…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will judge this week how fast the UK can exit COVID-19 lockdown after vaccinating 15 million of its most vulnerable people. But the health minister says deaths and hospital admission numbers are still too high. With nearly a quarter of the UK's population now inoculated with…

16134098271240 people admitted to hospital with Covid on Feb 13 - the lowest since Dec 5The number of hospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England was 1,240 on February 13, according to the latest figures from NHS England. This is the lowest daily total since December 5 when 1,186…

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