Britain

Anti-capitalist academics are ‘fuelling campaigns to remove statues across Britain’

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The leading figure in a campaign to topple Britain’s statues is a hard-left antivaxxer fanatic who once disrupted a service for the Queen to tell her ‘you should be ashamed’. Toyin Agbetu, 53, was recently appointed a member of Sadiq Khan’s new diversity commission and is now supporting a campaign to remove a monument to … Read more

Big freeze continues: Britain is told to brace for up to four inches of snow and 50mph gales today

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Gales of up to 50mph are predicted to combine with blizzards of snow today to provide a freezing start to the weekend.  The mercury dropped to minus 15C in parts of central and northern Scotland in the early hours, while temperatures in England and Wales hovered around minus 5C.  It is expected to be drier … Read more

Britain on brink of hitting 15m vaccine target… and even Morph has had his shot!

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Britain is on the brink of hitting 15m vaccine target with over-65s now being invited to get their jabs… and even Morph has had his shot! Co-creator Peter Lord tweeted photo of character from TV show Take Hart  First doses of vaccines have now been administered to 13,509,108 people UK looks increasingly likely to hit … Read more

Britain is ready to fire on all cylinders, writes Bank of England Chief Economist ANDY HALDANE 

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The rapid rollout of the vaccination programme across the UK means a decisive corner has been turned in the battle against Covid. A decisive corner is about to be turned for the economy too, with enormous amounts of pent-up financial energy waiting to be released, like a coiled spring. With 13 million of the most … Read more

Bank of England chief economist predicts Britain will roar back with spending boom

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Britain’s economy will bounce back like a ‘coiled spring’ once liberated from lockdown, a Bank of England boss says today. In an exclusive article for the Daily Mail, chief economist Andy Haldane insists the public are ‘desperate to get their lives back’. He believes a ‘decisive corner has been turned’ thanks to the Covid-19 vaccine … Read more

5million EU citizens apply to stay in Britain after Brexit

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Five million EU citizens apply to stay in Britain after Brexit – larger than the population of seven European nations Home Office has received 4.9m applications under the EU settlement scheme  Officials have granted permanent resident status to around 4.3m applicants Experts have criticised quality of the Government’s data on previous population  By Rory Tingle … Read more

Britain will start getting out of Covid lockdown in late May if it follows Israel’s roadmap

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Britain will only begin to emerge from lockdown at the end of May if it follows the Israeli roadmap for defeating coronavirus. Israel has started implementing a three-stage plan to exit Covid restrictions – similar to the blueprint Boris Johnson is set to lay out on February 22. Despite leading the world in the vaccine … Read more

Germany gets ahead of Britain by announcing hairdressers will be able to reopen from March 1

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Germany is now ahead of Britain as the country announced hairdressers will be able to reopen in March – while Brits still face uncertainty over when they will next get their hair cut.  German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 governors on Wednesday also decided to extend the coronavirus lockdown until March 7 amid … Read more

Britain has dished out 10% of world’s Covid vaccines but experts say UK’s drive needs to speed up

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Britain has dished out 10 per cent of the entire world’s coronavirus vaccines, shocking figures show — but critics have warned against complacency as data suggests the national rollout has ‘hit a wall’.  Despite its small population on the global standings, the UK has administered a whopping 13.2million out of 146million doses given out internationally.  … Read more