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Reactions as Mail journalist backs PM’s claim that Thatcher was an Eco-Warrior
"The Mail on Sunday. Where truth goes to die," wrote one Twitter user.
Brexit: Business leader’s letter to PM unanswered as Army ‘ready to help tackle food shortages’
He said: “The real issue is the complete lack of strategic planning. From our perspective, there has been none whatsoever.”
Greece burns as new UN report to sets out stark reality of climate crisis as ‘unequivocal, unprecedented’
Without immediate, rapid and large-scale cuts to greenhouse gas pollution, limiting warming to 1.5C will be beyond reach, scientists say.
Army HGV drivers ‘ready to help tackle UK’s food shortages’
But around 2,000 military drivers are set to attempt replacing a huge shortage of 100,000 lorry drivers, previously made up mainly of Eastern Europeans.
UK private Covid test providers investigated for ‘exploitative behaviour’
Government-approved private test providers are under investigation following reports of several failures to protect travellers.
Russia evacuates two villages in Siberia because of wildfires
Russian authorities started to evacuate two villages in a vast region of Siberia where 155 active forest fires burned on Sunday.
NHS waiting list in England ‘could soar to 14 million next year’
Tory health secretary Sajid Javid previously said he was "shocked" at the waiting list getting worse.
Thousands of EU citizens in the UK set to see benefits cut off
Campaigners said the government decision could push Europeans unaware of the need to apply to maintain their rights in post-Brexit Britain into poverty.
WATCH: David Lammy slams Alok Sharma quarantine-free travel from 30 countries
"It’s one rule for them and another rule for us, whether it’s Dominic Cummings, whether it’s Matt Hancock, whether it’s Alok Sharma."