9.29am BST09:29 Israel is going ahead with its campaign to administer third doses to over-12s, encouraged by the US rolling out booster shots to more vulnerable patients. The AP news agency reports that Israeli officials attributes the suppression of its third wave to the booster shot rollout, and expects the US and others to expand … Read more
Latest updates: UK foreign secretary critical of French president over Brexit as final day of G7 sees attention turn to climate crisis 1.19pm BST Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has said that with Joe Biden US president instead of Donald Trump, the world can address its problems “with a new zest”, Bloomberg reports. “Look, the … Read more
Good morning. In a long profile published yesterday, Boris Johnson was quoted as suggesting that politics is all about stories. “People live by narrative,” he told The Atlantic. “Human beings are creatures of the imagination.” And so, with tension with the EU over the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol escalating (or non-implementation – the … Read more
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Friday unveiled a booster shot to his previously announced ‘Job Support Scheme‘ to cover a chunk of the wages of businesses legally required to shut in the coming weeks as part of local or national coronavirus restrictions. The finance minister said eligible businesses will receive grants to pay the wages … Read more