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Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden speaks after a Treasury minister dramatically quit Boris Johnson's government Video Loading Video Unavailable Lord Agnew walks out of Lords chamber after resigning You might not have heard of Lord Agnew – the Government Anti-Fraud Minister who resigned in the House of…

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British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has announced the end of COVID-19 measures which were earlier introduced to control the rapid spread of the Omicron variant in England. According to him, the Plan B measures would no longer be imposed, face masks would not be legally enforced anywhere, COVID passes would…

BRASILIA (Reuters) -COVID-19 infections are reaching new peaks in the Americas with 7.2 million new cases and more than 15,000 COVID-related deaths in the last week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday. "The virus is spreading more actively than ever before," PAHO Director Carissa Etienne told a…

Boris Johnson's promise to scrap all Covid restrictions by the spring was welcomed by business leaders today, but unions warned against allowing a 'free-for-all'. The Prime Minister said that 'from now' No10's work from home guidance will no longer apply, and face masks will no longer be required in school…

WASHINGTON: The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its cosmic parking spot a million miles away, bringing it a step closer to its mission to unravel the mysteries of the Universe, NASA said Monday. At around 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1900 GMT), the observatory fired its thrusters for five…

B oris Johnson will fight any no confidence vote launched against him by his own MPs and expects to fight the next general election, No 10 has said, after he was urged to resign by a Tory grandee and lost one of his newest MPs to Labour. The Prime Minister…

Media caption, Watch how Boris Johnson reacts when asked if apologising to the Queen was a moment of shame Boris Johnson faces more questions about his leadership at Prime Minister's Questions, as the row over lockdown parties at No 10 continues. Growing revolt among Tory MPs, including those elected in…

On Wednesday, January 19 at 19:30GMT: Are the nine political lives of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson up? A series of scandals have marked his leadership, but now several political analysts think it may all end over a party. The party in question – a May 2020 social event in…

Wednesday 19 January 2022 6:15 am By: Paul Ormerod Paul Ormerod is an economist at Volterra Partners LLP and author. Boris Johnson decided not to add further regulations after having implemented Plan B to tackle the spread of the Omicron variant. (Photo by IAN VOGLER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) The last…