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He said: “The real issue is the complete lack of strategic planning. From our perspective, there has been none whatsoever.”

Without immediate, rapid and large-scale cuts to greenhouse gas pollution, limiting warming to 1.5C will be beyond reach, scientists say.

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.

Government-approved private test providers are under investigation following reports of several failures to protect travellers.

Russian authorities started to evacuate two villages in a vast region of Siberia where 155 active forest fires burned on Sunday.

Tory health secretary Sajid Javid previously said he was "shocked" at the waiting list getting worse.

Campaigners said the government decision could push Europeans unaware of the need to apply to maintain their rights in post-Brexit Britain into poverty.

"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."

The move comes after Corbyn was suspended from Labour in October 2020, after saying antisemitism in the party was “dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.”