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January Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, signed the EU withdrawal agreement, sent from Brussels by train. Sajid Javid, the Chancellor…
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Home The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine began, rather slowly, to be given to some old people in hospital and health workers.…
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Home The Commons voted by 291 votes to 78 for new coronavirus regulations putting 55 million people in England into…
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Home The AstraZeneca vaccine developed by the University of Oxford was found to be 70 per cent effective — 90…
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Home Dominic Cummings, the chief adviser to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, left Downing Street after a week in which…
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Home Pfizer and BioNTech announced a vaccine against Covid-19 of 90 per cent efficacy from two injections three weeks apart.…
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Home The government imposed a lockdown on England to last until 2 December. On television, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister,…
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Home Wales, entering a 17-day ‘firebreak’, closed most shops by law but then tried to stop supermarkets selling ‘non-essential’ items…
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Home After ten days spent trying to persuade Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, to accede to the city…
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Home ‘The weeks and months ahead will continue to be difficult and will test the mettle of this country,’ Boris…
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Home Coronavirus was on the increase. At the beginning of the week, Sunday 4 October, total deaths (within 28 days…
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Home More than a quarter of the population of the United Kingdom (three-fifths of the Welsh, a third of the…
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Home Pubs and restaurants would have to close at ten o’clock, under new coronavirus restrictions announced by Boris Johnson, the…
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Home At one minute past midnight on Monday, new laws came into force prohibiting households in England increasing their numbers…
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Home Gatherings of more than six people from more than one household were made a crime in England from 14…
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Home Simon Case, aged 41, the private secretary to the Duke of Cambridge 2018-20, was appointed Cabinet Secretary and Head…
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Home Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, made pupils wear face-coverings in school corridors. It didn’t take long for…
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Home The government seemed to be taken strangely unaware by the frenzy of recrimination that came its way when results…
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Home In fine weather with calm seas, 565 migrants in four days crossed the Channel in small craft. French officials…
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Home Some 2.7 million people in Greater Manchester and parts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire, where many Muslims live, were…
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Home At a few hours’ notice, the government removed Spain from the list of countries from which it was possible…
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Home A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, tested on 1,077 people, was found to induce antibodies and…
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Home New regulations would compel people to wear a face covering in shops in England from 24 July on pain…
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Home Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced measures intended to stimulate the economy. Under a £111 million scheme,…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said he was ‘as fit as a butcher’s dog’ and did press-ups to prove…
