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Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings has published a WhatsApp exchange in which the Prime Minister appeared to describe UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s performance as “totally f***ing hopeless”.The former Downing Street adviser renewed his attacks on the UK Health Secretary on Wednesday in a blogpost detailing evidence of what he described as the "covid disaster" caused by Hancock.Cummings,

England’s reopening phase has been put on hold.

Cinemas across England must continue to operate at reduced capacity for another month after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed a delay to the easing of coronavirus restrictions.

Follow all the latest updates on our blog below. A delay to lockdown easing may also help break the link between infections and hospital admissions, a public health professor suggested.Professor Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, told LBC that the variant first identified in India now accounted for the majority of UK cases, but the death rate among people with this infection was low."You can see amongst people who were infected with this variant, the mortality rate was 0.7%, just 12

Selena Gomez has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to donate all of the UK's surplus coronavirus vaccines to poorer countries. The 28-year-old pop star has hit out at the politician after he announced that the UK will have donated five million surplus doses of coronavirus vaccines by September.

Selena Gomez has tweeted at Boris Johnson criticising him over his announcement that the UK will have donated five million surplus doses of coronavirus vaccines by September. Tiktokker suffers heart-attack after trying out the popular 'dry scooping' challengeTrump claims he is trying to ‘save’ democracyDermot O’Leary has heated debate with anti-vaxxer Beverley Turner.

Noel Gallagher has blasted Boris Johnson a “fat cunt” over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.The Prime Minister has faced intense criticism over his perceived lack of leadership throughout the pandemic, with the virus claiming the lives of 128,000 people across the UK.Speaking in an interview with The New Cue, the Oasis icon said: “Boris Johnson has proved himself not to be the fucking man in the crisis.

First Minister joined her Welsh and Northern Irish counterparts for a virtual discussion with Downing Street earlier today to debate such issues as extending furlough and vaccine supply. But despite "frank" discussions lasting several hours between Boris Johnson and the devolved leaders there no final agreed strategy was produced - but those present did agree to meet again soon to discuss how best for the UK to emerge from the pandemic.

virus expert. Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen University, said Holyrood leaders repeated the same devastating errors as Westminster.

Kate Garraway has shared her feelings about Dominic Cummings' evidence on how the Government handled the coronavirus pandemic and the impact it had on her family, saying those in charge "didn't care enough".The Good Morning Britain presenter opened up on her reaction to the former adviser's comments about Boris Johnson and key ministers' attitudes to the unfolding crisis, talking about how it made her feel as her family are still dealing with the effects of their decisions.

Prime Minister was called on by the SNP’s Ian Blackford to apologies for the thousands of covid deaths over the last year. The SNP Westminster leader said: “The Prime Minister’s most senior former adviser, Dominic Cummings, apologised on behalf of the UK Government."“He said ‘when the public needed us most, we failed’.“We know the Prime Minister made a series of catastrophic errors throughout the crisis.“He went on holiday when he should have been leading efforts to tackle the pandemic.

Blackford confronted Johnson at Prime Minister’s Questions over trade negotiations which are reported to have split the Tory cabinet over of the implications for UK farmers.

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