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Premier League faces rising Covid crisis after Burnley v Watford is postponed
League straining to keep scheduled games on and clubs onside Request from both clubs to call off Leicester v Spurs is rejected The Premier League was straining to keep its…
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Omicron surge: record Covid-19 cases in UK as public warned to scale back Christmas plans
England’s chief medical officer warned people not to mix with others unless they have to in the run-up to Christmas after Britain recorded its most daily coronavirus cases since the…
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Canapes and party hats in CCHQ: Boris Johnson’s latest photo nightmare
Picture emerges showing Tory mayoral candidate, activists and a party donor crammed together during lockdown Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage As Christmas parties go, it may…
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Boosters work, no need for Omicron-specific coronavirus jabs, says US disease expert Anthony Fauci
Booster doses of currently available Covid-19 vaccines work against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus and there appears to be no need for variant-specific boosters, top US infectious disease expert…
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Millions of unjabbed a key concern as England scrambles to vaccinate
Government’s ‘Get boosted now’ slogan means little in areas where up to 30% of people have had no vaccine at all Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage…
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The Guardian view on the Tories and Omicron: a retreat from reality | Editorial
Boris Johnson, like many Conservative leaders before him, is now the hostage to his party’s ungovernable tendency At the start of the pandemic, Boris Johnson had the parliamentary majority and…
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Conservative backbenchers are out of touch with the public — and fully removed from reality | Martin Kettle
The libertarian right correctly gauged voters’ mood on Brexit, but rebelling on Covid rules could be politically dangerous The Conservative government won the Commons vote; but it was so badly…
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As cost of food and fuel soars, is there an appetite to raise UK interest rates?
Analysis: Bank of England faces tough call as apple prices rise by 25% and Omicron cases increase UK inflation jumps to 10-year high as petrol prices soar Q&A: what does…
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China’s retail sales slowdown highlights fear of ‘threefold pressure’
Evidence of the “threefold pressure” facing China’s economy came thick and fast on Wednesday as retail sales growth slowed and coronavirus outbreaks continued to disrupt production and the labour market…
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With Tories in revolt, Labour can push them to better protect the public from Covid | Owen Jones
By demanding higher sick pay and a new furlough scheme, Keir Starmer would be doing politics, not playing politics Britain’s abysmal level of statutory sick pay is a killer. If…