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“It’s very clear that we should have closed the border to India earlier and that Boris did not do so because he didn’t want to offend Modi,” one Whitehall source said.

“I have not seen this level of destruction through my 14 years of work,” an emergency rescue official said.

Ministers are hoping surge testing and the acceleration of second vaccine doses can allow a safe opening up of the nation.

New evidence gives a “high degree of confidence” that coronavirus vaccines work against the Indian variant, Matt Hancock said.

The Gaza health ministry said rescuers are racing to pull survivors and bodies from the rubble following the assault on Sunday.

Unpaid internships have been criticised for locking disadvantaged young people out of top careers.

Scientists urged for a delay in the third stage of the road map to easing the lockdown as medics described the step as a “real worry” .

Nine people were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, the Metropolitan Police said.

Organisers say “immediate action” is needed by the UK to help end the “brutal” violence against the Palestinian people.