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‘It wasn’t until the last week of February that there was again any sense of urgency’

‘We worked hard and played hard,’ Labour leader says

Boris Johnson’s former senior adviser Dominic Cummings has told MPs the government “disastrously short” of the standards that should be expected of it when coronavirus hit the UK, and apologised for his own role in the mistakes that were made.

Claim comes ahead of Dominic Cummings’ appearance at Commons inquiry

Stephanie Dubois, 39, suffered from a ‘serious thrombotic episode’

Victims ‘going unprotected as they fear prosecution’, inspectorate warns

Judge says there is ‘sufficient basis’ to suggest ‘visual and conceptual similarity’

Dominic Cummings is expected to reveal embarrassing details about Boris Johnson’s attitude to Covid deaths when he appears before MPs, writes Adam Forrest

Ahead of Cummings’s long-awaited appearance at a select committee hearing on Wednesday, Sean O’Grady considers who will come out of it unscathed – and who is in the cross hairs of the PM’s ex-aide

‘Members of the panel supported self-ID for gender recognition certificates,’ says cabinet minister