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Nicola Sturgeon says Boris Johnson is only PM she's worked with that was a 'disgrace to office'
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Kevin McKenna: Could we even trust the SNP to spend any new money wisely?: AS predictably as seagulls follow chip-wrappers, Susan Aitken was quick to mimic ...
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Kevin McKenna: Could we even trust the SNP to spend any new money wisely?: AS predictably as seagulls follow chip-wrappers, Susan Aitken was quick to mimic ...
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Met Police Covid fine for ‘partying’ while sitting at desk was ‘slap in face’, says cleared office worker
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UK politicians were ‘afraid of Nicola Sturgeon’ during Covid pandemic: Mark Drakeford said the UK Government was 'always anxious' about interactions ...
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Covid inquiry: Boris Johnson was ‘absent manager of football team’: Mark Drakeford has said Boris Johnson was like an ‘absent’ manager of a football team during ...
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'It's all so random': Tearful Nicola Sturgeon questioned on decision making at Covid inquiry
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Covid bereaved considering police complaint over Nicola Sturgeon's deleted WhatsApp messages
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Nicola Sturgeon: Former first minister told to make statement on recording of Covid WhatsApps over 'zero' message retention
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Nicola Sturgeon set for comeback to campaign for SNP at general election: Nicola Sturgeon is set for a comeback to frontline politics during the general election ...
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Helen MacNamara: Covid chaos, sexism and machismo at Boris Johnson’s No 10: In her first interview, the former civil servant under Boris Johnson speaks out about ...
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Nicola Sturgeon called Boris Johnson a ‘clown’ in WhatsApp rant: Former first minister questioned ex-prime minister’s competence in foul-mouthed texts with her ...
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SNP reject claims of Nicola Sturgeon 'burner phones' in Covid lockdown: THE SNP have branded claims that Nicola Sturgeon and Jeane Freeman bought burner phones ...
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Boris Johnson will never apologise for the coronavirus handling: The truth, the whole truth and everything except the truth.
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Quick Glance: Legacy of Boris Johnson: Impact of Covid Inquiry
- After this week’s Covid inquiry, all doubts about Boris Johnson’s political career are put to rest.
- Hugo Keith KC, counsel to the Covid inquiry, meticulously revealed the former British prime minister's numerous failures.
- During the pandemic, Johnson's negligence, laziness, and systematic deceit, coupled with his repeated boasting of fictitious achievements, are exposed.
- It is inevitable that Johnson will face being shunned after the Covid inquiry.
COVID Inquiry: 'Nicola Sturgeon could cry from one eye if she wanted to,' says Scottish Secretary Alister Jack
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Boris Johnson tells inquiry he is ‘sorry for pain’ of Covid victims: Former UK prime minister says he understands public anger as he begins two days of evidence
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Quick Glance: Former Ukrainian Lawmaker Killed Near Moscow
- Ilya Kiva, accused of treason, was assassinated near Moscow by Ukrainian special forces.
- Kiva, a supporter of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, fled to Russia after facing treason charges.
- Two Ukrainian officials confirmed that the SBU carried out the operation to kill Kiva.
- His death is the latest in a series of assassinations of Ukrainian defectors and Russians involved in Moscow’s invasion.
Covid inquiry: Sunak and Johnson thought it ‘OK to let people die’ — watch live: Key moments Johnson said ‘elderly have had a good innings’, Vallance recalls ...
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Rishi Sunak Covid inquiry live: Rishi Sunak begins Covid evidence with apology to victims - BBC News
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Quick Glance: Controversial Proposal: Sending Asylum Seekers to Rwanda
- Britain's Parliament to vote on deterring asylum seekers crossing the English Channel.
- The government proposes sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, over 4,300 miles away.
- Rishi Sunak aims to deport some who attempt to enter Britain via the English Channel to claim asylum.
- First deportation flights to Rwanda were canceled due to concerns about safety for refugees.
Covid Inquiry: Nicola Sturgeon's deleted WhatsApp messages are scandal on par with Downing Street parties – Brian Wilson
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Boris Johnson plotted military raid on Dutch Covid plant: Prime minister weighed up options to recover five million vaccine doses blocked from UK
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The Covid inquiry has damaged Sturgeon’s legacy beyond repair: The Covid inquiry sessions have revealed an SNP government embroiled in secrecy ...
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Penny Mordaunt: Boris Johnson’s messages vanished from my phone: MP tells Covid inquiry that then prime minister’s chief of staff ignored repeated attempts to ...
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Boris Johnson ‘to say sorry’ for Covid complacency: Former prime minister will apologise for deaths but defend his government’s pandemic policies in evidence for ...
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Covid inquiry: Michael Gove defends Boris Johnson over lockdown decision-making: But the minister apologises for the government's "errors" during the pandemic at ...
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Boris Johnson set to face grilling at Covid inquiry: Allies of former PM say he will apologise for mistakes but defend positive aspects of UK response to ...
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Boris Johnson fights tears as he talks about his Covid battle: The former prime minister said he had never spoken about his hospital experience in public before
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Boris Johnson to apologise to Covid inquiry but say he got big calls right: But the former PM will argue robustly his government got many big pandemic calls ...
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Watch: Nicola Sturgeon breaks down in tears at Covid Inquiry: Nicola Sturgeon struggled to hold it together and started to cry during her appearance at the Covid ...
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Nicola Sturgeon loses reputation and SNP votes after Covid ‘betrayal’: Labour hopes to take a number of seats from Humza Yousaf’s party in this year’s general ...
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Tory party pressure led Boris Johnson to delay Covid curbs, says Matt Hancock: Former health secretary concedes pandemic rule-breaking by ministers and aides hit ...
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The real doctor behind ITV Covid drama Breathtaking is 'full of rage': Joanne Froggatt plays a character inspired by Dr Rachel Clarke in ITV's Breathtaking ...
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Boris Johnson's Grimsby Town FC hat 'brings town into serious disrepute', petition argues
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Quick Glance: Grimsby Town Fans Upset After Boris Johnson Wears Club Hat
- Longtime Grimsby Town fan Kathryn Wheatley expresses concern about the club's public image.
- Labour leader of North East Lincolnshire council, Wheatley, reacts to images of Boris Johnson wearing a GTFC hat.
- Johnson received the hat from Tory MP Lia Nici, who praised his support for Grimsby.
- A petition has been launched to stop Johnson from wearing the hat and bringing shame to the community.
Who’d Be Prime Minister: The Readout With Julian Harris: It’s fair to say the reign of Boris Johnson didn’t turn out quite as he hoped.
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Heckling and choking up: Boris Johnson grilled at Covid inquiry: The former prime minister has given evidence for two days at the Covid inquiry.
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McMafia: inside the SNP’s secret state: After years of scandal and intrigue, the Scottish National party has not lost its ability to shock ...
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COVID inquiry: John Swinney messages to Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf deleted ‘manually’
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Covid inquiry: Chris Whitty says ‘we had no plan for a pandemic’: Key moments With the benefit of hindsight the country acted too late, Whitty admits Britain ...
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Quick Glance: Covid Inquiry: First Lockdown Delayed - Whitty
- Prof Sir Chris Whitty told the inquiry he would have banned mass gatherings earlier in March 2020, in hindsight.
- He stated that the government had 'no good options' at the time.
- There was a risk of acting too early as well as too late.
- Whitty also defended not raising the alarm across government in mid-January 2020, despite warnings from his deputy.
Dominic Raab denies Dominic Cummings made key pandemic decisions: Boris Johnson's former deputy says Sajid Javid is wrong to suggest the PM was his chief ...
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'Rishi thinks just let people die': Dominic Cummings' claim revealed in Sir Patrick Vallance's COVID diary
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Rwanda plan reignites Tory civil war: Plus, did Boris Johnson change any minds at the Covid inquiry?
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A vacuous, amoral elite who lost the plot. Saltburn or the Covid inquiry? It’s hard to tell
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Nicola Sturgeon is still haunting Humza Yousaf: Not for the first time, Nicola Sturgeon stole Humza Yousaf’s thunder. Unlike the First Minister ...
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Nicola Sturgeon reported to police over UK Covid inquiry WhatsApp claims: The ex-First Minister has been accused of misleading the review into the handling of ...
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Boris Johnson’s COVID inquiry grilling: all the bombshell moments: Britain’s former prime minister is facing a two-day going-over by the country’s official ...
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Rishi throws Boris under the bus as his Covid inquiry grilling begins: Rishi Sunak jumped at the first opportunity to throw his former boss, Boris Johnson ...
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Rishi Sunak denies saying it was ‘OK’ to ‘just let people die’ of Covid: The suggestion appeared in pandemic diaries shared with the Covid inquiry by former ...
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Quick Glance: Greece, UK Dispute: Parthenon Sculptures Clash
- Controversy over Parthenon sculptures displayed in the British Museum.
- Canceled meeting due to disagreement on revisiting resolved matters.
- Sculptures divided between London and Athens.
- Dispute jeopardized global issue discussions, including wars and climate crisis.
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Hide nothing, avoid ‘tittle tattle’ and focus on substance: what can Ireland learn from the UK’s ‘farcical’ Covid inquiry?
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Can Boris Johnson Keep His Cool at U.K.’s Covid Inquiry?: Britain’s former prime minister will face tough questions when he testifies this week before an ...
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Stories of our times: Covid Inquiry: Boris on trial: Over the past two days, Boris Johnson faced a grilling at the Covid Inquiry. His appearance came after weeks ...
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‘I don’t buy it’: Scottish secretary dismisses Sturgeon’s tears at Covid inquiry: Ex-SNP leader could ‘cry from one eye if she wanted’, says Tory cabinet ...
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Sadiq Khan says exclusion of London officials from Covid meetings cost lives: ‘Bad faith’ on part of Boris Johnson’s government meant ministers missed out on ...
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Sturgeon says part of her wishes she was not Scottish first minister during pandemic
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UK Covid Inquiry: Devastating evidence about 'bamboozled' Boris Johnson may benefit 'boring' Keir Starmer – Scotsman comment
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Angela Rayner: ‘Appaling’ that former first minister Nicola Sturgeon deleted Covid WhatsApp messages
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Johnson told Vallance: ‘My gut tells me this will be fine,’ Covid inquiry hears: Vallance and Whitty were split over how early and hard measures should be taken ...
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Boris Johnson faces COVID inquiry grilling next week: Former UK leader expected to face tough questions.
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Was the UK really ‘the sick man of Europe’ in Covid?: Boris Johnson was challenged at the Covid inquiry over excess deaths — were they due to mismanagement or ...
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A blunderer in high office: Three years ago, as the spectre of a Christmas lockdown haunted the country, Covid-19 presented a grave threat ...
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The SNP’s Covid reckoning: We now know from evidence to the Covid Inquiry that Scottish government ministers were as prone to offensive language as Dominic ...
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No warning of relaxed Covid rules for RNLI before triple tragedy: Confusing and conflicting messages from the Government did not help
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The most loved and hated man in Wales: How Covid defined Mark Drakeford: The pandemic made a bookish politician and academic the most divisive figure in Wales
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Quick Glance: Wales' First Minister Resignation
- A new party leader to be elected before Easter, per Mr. Drakeford.
- He will remain as first minister until his party selects his successor.
- Mr. Drakeford, aged 69, Member of the Senedd for Cardiff West, served as first minister for five years.
- British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak extended best wishes to Mark Drakeford as he concludes his years of public service.
UK: 'Macho' culture of misogyny in Downing Street hampered Covid response, Helen MacNamara says
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PM expected to tell Covid inquiry Eat Out to Help Out aided women and minorities: Rishi Sunak set be challenged over discount meals scheme when he gives evidence ...
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Do we really need this unsubtle and irrelevant play about Covid?: Pandemonium is a new satire about the Covid nightmare that uses the quaint style of the ...
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‘Bamboozled’ Boris Johnson struggled to understand COVID-19 stats, UK inquiry hears
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Sturgeon’s foul-mouthed Boris-bashing revealed: If there’s one thing that both Covid Inquiries have reliably provided, it’s expletives ...
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COVID inquiry: Rishi Sunak’s ‘dogmatic’ push to reopen economy slammed by ex-science chief
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Grieving woman blames Boris Johnson for NHS worker partner's covid death: Lena Vincent, from Bucknall, was among those protesting at the Covid inquiry after her ...
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Letters: is the Scottish ‘McMafia’ model still better than Westminster?: Scot free Sir: In last week’s piece on the SNP, Fraser Nelson was critical of the Covid ...
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Rishi Sunak to face COVID-19 inquiry grilling next week: UK prime minister will appear at the COVID-19 inquiry on Monday.
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British state ‘surprisingly bad’ at responding to COVID-19, inquiry hears: Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty blames sluggish government machine for U.K ...
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All the times top official Jenny Harries told Brits to chill about COVID-19: The UK Health Security Agency boss — whose early pandemic interventions raised ...
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Boris Johnson: I shouldn’t have shaken hands with hospital patients in March 2020
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Patrick Vallance and the politicisation of Covid science: Throughout the Covid meetings, Sir Patrick Vallance was scribbling almost as much as Michael Gove ...
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Nicola Sturgeon reveals novel that 'gave her strength' when Covid hit: FORMER first minister Nicola Sturgeon has revealed what novel she was reading at the start ...
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Scottish Government loses mobile phone containing vital Covid WhatsApp messages: SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: The government said it can't find Andrew ...
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WhatsApp apologies aren’t cutting it with families bereaved by Covid: Inquiry exchanges have given us an insight into some of what was going on behind the scenes ...
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