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Rishi Sunak has been urged to “come clean” over whether he knew of informal concerns about Dominic Raab’s behaviour before appointing him, as an investigation into the deputy prime minister continues. Eleven weeks since the inquiry began looking into complaints from about two dozen civil servants across three government departments, pressure is growing on the prime minister to suspend Raab and reveal what he knew and when. Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA union, which represents many civil servants, criticised Sunak for “point blank” refusing to say whether informal concerns about Raab’s behaviour were raised – and if…

Erik ten Hag believes Jadon Sancho can be a match-winner for Manchester United after the forward returned during the 2-0 Carabao Cup semi-final second leg win over Nottingham Forest that sets up a Wembley showdown with Newcastle later this month. The forward entered on 63 minutes and impressed after three months out due to physical and mental wellbeing issues, his last action having been away at Chelsea in October. After training with specialist coaches in the Netherlands, Sancho has spent the last fortnight back with United’s squad. Ten Hag was asked if he can be a decisive player for United. “He already…

Dominic Raab is facing fresh calls to be suspended from his post, after the Guardian revealed three senior civil servants who worked with him had been interviewed by the official inquiry into his alleged bullying. Rishi Sunak has rejected calls to suspend Raab, the justice secretary and deputy prime minister, despite the number of allegations against him increasing. Antonia Romeo, the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice, and Philip Rycroft, who ran the Brexit department while Raab was in charge there, have both been witnesses in the investigation led by Adam Tolley KC, the Guardian understands. The former Foreign Office permanent…

Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla has made “misleading” and unsubstantiated statements on the merit of giving COVID-19 vaccines to young school children, according to a case report published by the UK’s pharmaceutical watchdog on Friday. During an interview with the BBC published on Dec. 2, 2021, Bourla was asked whether he believed it was likely that 5-to 11-year-olds in the UK and Europe would be vaccinated against COVID-19 and whether it was a good idea. The interview was published after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorised the use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on the primary schoolers, but the UK’s medicines regulator, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), didn’t approve the…

The “majority” of schools in England and Wales will remain open, the education secretary has claimed, as more than 100,000 teachers joined the picket line for the first time in six years. Gillian Keegan said on Wednesday that some schools may open with restrictions, while others were open to everyone, but expressed her disappointment that any were closing at all. Teaching staff are taking part in a day of coordinated strikes involving up to half a million civil servants, Border Force staff and train drivers. The UK’s biggest teaching union, the NEU, has predicted that 85% of schools will be affected,…

Rail passengers across Britain face more disruption on Wednesday, with no trains at all running on most routes in England as train drivers start the first of two days of strikes this week. The seventh day of national action in the past year by the Aslef union will affect 14 operating companies, with all but four of them suspending services entirely. Passengers have been asked to check before attempting to travel, with just a skeleton service on Greater Anglia, LNER and GWR. South Western Railway, where only depot drivers are striking, hopes to run a full service. Strike action is not being…

House prices in the UK continued to fall in January, sliding for the fifth month in a row, according to Nationwide, pushing the average cost of a home 3.2% below the peak seen last August. The cost of a home dropped by 0.6% in the first month of the year compared with December 2022, according to the building society’s monthly survey. Annual house price growth also slowed at the start of the year to 1.1%, down from 2.8% in December. This is the lowest growth since June 2020, when the housing market reopened after being frozen during the early months of the Covid…

President Joe Biden says his administration will end the three-year COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11 but Republican leaders in the United States House of Representatives aim to declare it over as soon as Feb. 1. The newly constituted GOP-controlled House Rules Committee cleared four pandemic-related bills during four hours of hearings on Jan. 30, sending the proposals directly to House floor where they will be debated without committee review. In a theme that would recur in deliberations on all four bills, Democrats—outnumbered 9-4 on the panel—argued that abruptly pulling the plug on a raft of COVID-19 emergency measure would cause massive disruptions…

mid convulsive emotion for Novak Djokovic on Rod Laver Arena, it was Nick Kyrgios who cut to the essence of it all. “We created a monster,” he wrote. He did not intend it as a compliment to his fellow Australians. On the contrary, it was a statement on the pious posturing that had led to the Serb’s demonisation 12 months earlier, and the bloody-mindedness he has channelled to deliver one of sport’s most delicious acts of vengeance. It can be an overused trope, revenge. But nothing else quite captures the narrative flip that Djokovic has engineered in Melbourne. One year ago, he was…

SNP ministers have been criticised for spending more than £600,000 on a “propaganda” campaign which experts said was designed to fuel their push for independence rather than help vulnerable Scots. Nicola Sturgeon’s Government used taxpayers’ money to launch a major nationwide advertising blitz on TV, radio, print and social media to promote a website they claimed would offer “lifeline” support to those struggling with the cost of living crisis. However, critics denounced the online resource, which only directs users to other websites including several run by the UK Government, as “threadbare”. Paul Baines, a professor of political marketing at the University of…