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All key figures involved in the pandemic response will be required to hand over their WhatsApp messages to the Covid public inquiry, the chairman of the independent investigation has decided. Baroness Hallett has announced that all government ministers and advisers with a significant role in the crisis will be asked to release the private communications. It comes in the wake of The Lockdown Files, when The Telegraph obtained more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages between Matt Hancock, the then health secretary, and dozens of senior government figures including Boris Johnson, the then prime minister; Rishi Sunak, then the chancellor; Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary; and dozens…

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AIM TO TURN NORTH SEA INTO GREEN POWER ENGINE To strengthen energy security by developing a combined 120 Gigawatts of power Leaders from European countries surrounding the North Sea pledged to rapidly scale up offshore wind power generation in the region to strengthen energy security, at a summit in Ostend, Belgium. Leaders from seven European Union countries, including France, Germany and the Netherlands, alongside non-EU countries Norway and Britain pledged to speed up their buildout of wind farms, develop “energy islands” – or connected renewable generation sites at sea – and work on carbon capture and renewable hydrogen…

HIKE IN UK PUBLIC SECTOR BORROWING Chancellor blames ‘eye-watering sums’ spent on pandemic and energy bills support  Initial estimates for March show that the public sector spent more than it received in taxes and other income, requiring it to borrow £21.5bn. The chancellor has blamed the “eye-watering sums” spent on helping people through the coronavirus pandemic and energy crisis for an increase in public sector borrowing. Public sector net borrowing was £21.5bn last month – the second-highest March borrowing since monthly records began in 1993. This means that the public sector spent more than it received in taxes and other…

The British government is preparing to take advantage of a 72-hour ceasefire agreed by the warring factions in Sudan to evacuate UK nationals from the country, following intense criticism that it had missed a window of opportunity to evacuate more than only British diplomats and their families on Sunday. Military flights open to British passport-holders would depart from an airfield outside the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, the Foreign Office said. Priority would be given to family groups with children, the elderly and individuals with medical conditions. The Foreign Office told citizens not to travel to the airfield unless they were contacted, as it…

Diane Abbott’s local party and Labour officials will decide whether she can stand again at the next election, a shadow minister has said, after Abbott lost the Labour whip for her comments about racism. Abbott made comments suggesting that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people were not subject to racism “all their lives”. John Mann, the former Labour MP who is now a peer and advises the government on antisemitism, suggested it might be best if Abbott, an MP since 1987, did not stand again for her London constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington. But Pat McFadden, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury,…

David Moyes said his players “have to keep stepping up” after West Ham ended the perfect week with a vital 4-0 victory at Bournemouth to boost their survival chances. Moyes’s side fought back from two down to draw with Arsenal, the Premier League leaders, last Sunday and followed it up with a 4-1 win against Gent on Thursday to book their spot in the Europa Conference League semi-finals. Relegation has remained a distinct possibility, though, but they eased those concerns with a clinical display where first-half goals by Michail Antonio, Lucas Paquetá and Declan Rice put them in control. Pablo Fornals, on as a substitute,…

Britain’s Sudanese community is demanding the government does more to help bring their relatives – including NHS doctors – back from Sudan. Two planes were sent out from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus to evacuate UK diplomats from Khartoum – but other British citizens have not yet received support to leave the country. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the evacuation of the diplomats and their families was “complex and rapid” and followed threats to embassy staff in the capital. More than 400 people have died and thousands have been injured in a bloody conflict between the Sudanese army and a powerful paramilitary group known as…

On dialysis and potentially facing death, a 41-year-old homeschooling mother of seven young children has been rejected as a candidate for a life-saving kidney transplant by Emory Healthcare Inc. of Atlanta. The reason? The woman, who has already had COVID-19, refused to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on religious and medical grounds. To protect her privacy, the patient will be referred to in this article as Jane Doe. Emory Healthcare did not respond to a request for comment. Affiliated with Emory University, Emory Healthcare is one of the leading organ transplant centers in the South. According to Liberty Counsel (LC), a…

Cristian Stellini and Hugo Lloris both issued apologies to Tottenham’s supporters following the team’s humiliating 6-1 defeat against Newcastle on Sunday, with Lloris describing the display as “very embarrassing” and “very painful”. Stellini called it “the worst I have seen”’. Newcastle’s win, in which they race into a 5-0 lead inside 21 minutes, moves them to third, two places and six points clear of Spurs, whose hopes of Champions League qualification took an almighty knock. “There are no words to explain a performance like this,” said Stellini, who expressed his desire to remain in interim charge until the end of the season…

A group of 19 Republican lawmakers has called on the Biden administration to stop spending billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing invasion. In an April 20 letter (pdf) to President Joe Biden, the GOP Representatives and Senators shared their concerns that the trajectory of U.S. aid to Ukraine risks further escalating the war and lacks “much-needed strategic clarity.” “Over the past year, the U.S. has been the principal financier of the Ukrainian defense effort. As the war enters its second year, there is no end in sight and no clear strategy to bring this war to…