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Chancellor cuts national insurance but OBR says UK facing biggest fall in living standards since records beganAutumn statement – key points at a glanceKeir Starmer has said that a pause in hostilities between Israel and Hamas must be used to tackle th…
England’s chief medical officer says incomplete knowledge of epidemiological concepts can be ‘dangerous thing’Sir Chris Whitty spent early parts of the Covid pandemic trying to “implore” people in government not to publicly discuss health concepts they…
Chief scientific adviser says term was misunderstood and mistakenly taken to be government policyUK politics live – latest updatesSir Patrick Vallance has expressed regret for using the phrase “herd immunity” during an early media interview about Covid…
Chief medical officer for England and chief UK medical adviser says civil servants did good job but PM took ‘unique’ decisionsQ: Was there no aspect on the pandemic on which you did not advise?Whitty says he would not put it like that. He says he felt …
Seven key moments from inquiry this week, including top civil servant’s exasperation at then PMUK politics live – latest updatesThe Covid inquiry at times feels like watching a trial in which the prosecution and defence are conducted simultaneously – w…
PM’s WhatsApp messages show he ‘felt odd’ to ‘bash the cops’ as Priti Patel gives evidenceBoris Johnson said it “felt odd” to “bash” Metropolitan police officers who had interrupted the Sarah Everard vigil as all he had “seen is footage of some argy ba…
Opposition leaders accuse first minister and deputy of misleading Holyrood after they are forced to retract statements about message requestsHumza Yousaf has apologised for “shortcomings” with the release of government WhatsApp messages, as he faced ne…
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereAlistair Carmichael (Lib Dem) says every day 6,000 crimes go unsolved. If the home secretary does not have confidence in the police, or thinks she could do a better job, she should say so, he…
Former civil service chief also says he did not trusted Matt Hancock, the ‘over-promising’ health secretaryUK politics live – latest updatesMark Sedwill, the UK’s most senior civil servant at the start of Covid, viewed Boris Johnson’s government as “br…
Prime minister says he finds prospect of march ‘disrespectful’ but says freedom includes ‘right to peacefully protest’Keith is only now asking about Covid. All the questions so far have been about process.Sedwill says, when concerns about Covid arose, …