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Trump riots: ‘I wasn’t with those freaks’ Jamiroquai’s Jay Kay responds to MAGA fan comparison
“Good morning world. Now some of you may be thinking you saw me in Washington last night but I’m afraid I wasn’t with all those freaks.”
UK politicians warned of ‘armed insurrection’ after Trump ‘incites’ Capitol building riots
“They’re very similar narratives that align with everything that’s happening with Brexit. And there are these groups all over the internet across the UK and Europe. So it’s certainly not just a US issue.”
‘Like The Thick of It’: Hancock promotes Oxford jab – at GP yet to receive it
Hancock said the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was now being supplied to GP practices across the country - except, apparently, the one he visited.
‘Marched up to the top of the hill on this’ as Brexit paperwork ‘overwhelming’ in Northern Ireland
“You cannot simply wish away friction and administration when you implement customs controls anywhere in the world.”
‘Nationalism has consequences’ as patients rejected Pfizer vaccine to wait for ‘English’ jab, warns doctor
“People at risk of death in the depths of a pandemic. A lesson that Nationalism has consequences.”
London “days away” from running out of hospital beds – Mayor
One in 30 people in the capital are thought to have been infected with the virus.
‘An insurrection incited by the president’: Mitt Romney excoriates Trump
"What happened... was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States," Romney said.
New BBC chairman has donated over £400k to Conservative Party – Electoral Commission records show
Sir David Clementi – the current BBC chairman – is due to step down next month.
In pictures: Shocking images from the siege on the US Capitol
American democracy's darkest day, in pictures.