EU standoff with Britian over vaccines escalates

EU tensions are rising today as Brussels unveils plans to block vaccine exports amid claims desperate Irish citizens trying to get jabs in Northern Ireland.  The European Commission is set to defy anxiety over undermining legal contracts and publish new proposals widening

EU is to double down on jab export ban

Brussels will today radically ramp up threats to block vaccine exports to the UK, despite a push by Boris Johnson to find a compromise. The European Commission will publish new proposals this morning to widen the criteria for restricting vaccine exports from

Sombre Boris Johnson marks exactly a year since first lockdown

Boris Johnson tonight gave a humble assessment of the early days of the government’s coronavirus response – admitting it had been like fighting ‘in the dark’. At a sombre Downing Street briefing to mark the anniversary of the first lockdown, the PM tried