Meanwhile in the UK the gender pay gap widens at department run by women and equalities minister Liz Truss.

"'Clap for Carers' has become 'Clap for Heroes' and they're expecting us back out on our doorsteps this week. I shall not be clapping. Not because I don't respect the NHS - I do - but because I am tired of empty gestures when the NHS is starved of both...

The South East and South West – two regions where the Conservatives traditionally poll well – will both have new seats created.

“These are not radical, militant people and yet they were considering – before the recent announcement – taking legal action against the Government because they weren’t being listened to by the Education Secretary."

Extraordinary new figures just published by the ONS. Between Dec 27 and Jan 2, an estimated 2.06% of the whole population had covid, or 1 in 50.

The provider was “plunged into a fast unfolding scene straight out of a disaster movie”.

“It is true that many people from rural communities in the subcontinent bring with them eating habits that are simply not appropriate for modern life."

“Hospitals are stretched to breaking point, with doctors reporting unbearable workloads as they take on more Covid-19 admissions alongside the growing backlog of people who need other, non-Covid care."

Vandals tore down a Black Lives Matter banner and sign from two historic black churches in downtown Washington and set the banner ablaze.