Tony Blair has told Sky News the UK is going to be living with COVID-19, not eliminating it, for the foreseeable future. He has urged Boris Johnson to put measures in place to contain and control the virus to prevent a new surge of cases in the autumn. The former prime minister has also accused […]
It’s no exaggeration to say the next month is critical in the UK’s fight against coronavirus. Tomorrow is our final Sophy Ridge on Sunday before we break for the summer and MPs return to their constituencies for the summer recess. With infection rates relatively low, August provides a breathing space to get organised. By the […]
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(Note language in paragraph 2 some readers may find offensive.) By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday repeated an accusation that her Republican colleague Ted Yoho used a profane gender-based slur towards her earlier this week in an interaction on the Capitol steps. “In front of reporters, Representative […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The latest round of Brexit trade talks between David Frost and Michel Barnier ended this afternoon without a breakthrough, prompting the EU chief to concede both sides were heading for a no […]
(Reuters) – Democrats are mounting their most extensive voter protection effort ever to gird for what Joe Biden called his biggest fear: the prospect that President Donald Trump will try to interfere with the Nov. 3 election or refuse to accept its outcome. Interviews with more than a dozen party officials reveal how Democrats, in […]
(Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden labeled Donald Trump on Wednesday the first racist to become U.S. president in remarks his opponent’s re-election campaign quickly rebuked. Biden, who was vice president under Barack Obama, the first Black U.S. president, fielded a question at a Service Employees International Union roundtable from a healthcare worker concerned […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Downing Street said the PM is “absolutely” confident the result of the decisive 2016 poll was “fair” and there is “no evidence” of interference. Brexiteers said the findings of a long-awaited report […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House officials and top congressional Democrats on Tuesday discussed a next round of coronavirus relief that would include extended unemployment insurance for Americans thrown out of work during the pandemic and more money for schools. Republicans and Democrats also said they expected the final bill they reached to include more funding […]
(Reuters) – Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, a Republican, and four other men with ties to state politics were taken into custody on Tuesday in a $60 million federal racketeering case, local media reported. The office of U.S. Attorney David M. DeVillers for the Southern District of Ohio said in a statement he would announce […]