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A judge rules that preferential treatment was given but it was likely that PestFix and Ayanda Capital would have got work anyway given the rush for PPE in the early days of the pandemic. The government’s use of a so-called VIP lane to award PPE contracts to two companies during the first COVID wave was unlawful, the High Court has ruled. The challenge was brought by campaign groups the Good Law Project and EveryDoctor who argued the bid process conferred unlawful preferential treatment on those with political connections. They took legal action over more than £340m in contracts awarded in…

With a broad smile on his face and a Southampton scarf in his hands, it is probably worth someone telling Dragan Solak, the Serbian billionaire behind the club’s recent takeover, that it is not always like this. Southampton swept past Brentford, scoring four goals here for the first time in more than four years in a win capped by the substitute Che Adams, after Jan Bednarek, Armando Broja and an unfortunate own goal by Álvaro Fernández helped the hosts into a comfortable lead. At the final whistle, as Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now blared over the speakers, Ralph Hasenhüttl put both…

The prime minister, who has so far avoided questions over fresh allegations of a lockdown-busting party in Number 10, is appearing in front of MPs amid mounting pressure over the 20 May 2020 event. Boris Johnson has apologised after admitting that he attended a Downing Street garden drinks party during the first lockdown. Addressing the Commons under intense pressure from MPs, including those on his own government benches, to confirm whether he attended a drinks gathering at Number 10 on 20 May 2020, the prime minister said he had “learned enough to know there were things we simply did not get right”. “I want…

The boss of the UK’s largest energy supplier has said rocketing energy prices, which are adding to the soaring cost of living for British households, could last for as long as two years. Chris O’Shea, the chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica, said the energy market “suggests that high gas prices will be here for the next 18 months to two years”. O’Shea told the BBC there was no reason to think that gas prices would start to fall again “any time soon”. The rising global demand for gas is partly being driven by the energy transition, according to O’Shea, as countries…

Critics demanded answers from CDC director Rochelle Walensky Sunday after she hedged on how many of the COVID-19-related deaths in the U.S. were directly due to the virus and how many were individuals who died with COVID-19 yet had underlying conditions. “Do you know how many of the 836,000 deaths in the U.S. linked to COVID are from COVID or how many are with COVID, but they had other comorbidities? Do you have that breakdown?” Bret Baier asked Walensky on “Fox News Sunday.” “Yes of course with omicron we’re following that very carefully,” Walensky responded. “Our death registry of course takes a few weeks…to…

The prime minister and his wife Carrie were among around 40 people to attend a drinks event in the Downing Street garden on 20 May 2020, during the UK’s first national COVID lockdown, Sky News understands. A senior Conservative has told Sky News that claims Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie attended a drinks event in the Downing Street garden during the UK’s first national COVID lockdown are “indefensible”. They told Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby that the situation is “as bad as it gets”. “The fact that [Oliver] Dowden was telling people what they couldn’t do from one…

Covid restrictions could start to be lifted this month, after Michael Gove said Britain was moving towards a situation where it could ‘live with’ the virus. The Plan B measures were imposed last month in response to the Omicron variant and include guidance on WFH and legal requirements for masks and Covid passes in certain venues. Downing Street is examining options to lift them in stages if cases remain too high to remove them all in one go. Extending Covid passes, due to expire on January 26, would require another bruising clash with Tory backbenchers, which No10 wants to avoid.…

Steven Gerrard refused to blame a lengthy VAR call that led to an Aston Villa equaliser being ruled out for offside for his team’s elimination from the FA Cup by Manchester United on Monday night, with the manager instead urging his team to “flip” the result when hosting them in the Premier League on Saturday. Villa lost the third-round tie at Old Trafford 1-0 having conceded Scott McTominay’s early header but then dominated throughout. United also rode their luck as Villa had two goals ruled out in the second half. The latter was a relatively straightforward offside call against Danny Ings, who…

On the day that one of the prime minister’s most senior aides cheerily emailed more than 100 staff to suggest drinks in the Downing Street garden, a cabinet minister was telling the public they could meet only one person outside their household in an outdoor public place, 2 metres apart. The starkly different advice from Oliver Dowden at the No 10 press conference was less than an hour before the email from Martin Reynolds was sent on 20 May 2020. And that disparity would seem to encapsulate better than perhaps any other alleged No 10 party – and there were many – the “one…

A FOUNDER of a medical technology company says Covid microchips embedded into the skin will be able to track your location in the future, Express.co.uk can exclusively reveal. A Swedish start-up tech company announced earlier this month that it invented a scannable microchip that is implanted in people’s arms and can display your COVID-19 vaccination status. This digital implant is designed to be embedded into people’s arms so your vaccine passport pops up when scanned. While new in humans, this kind of technology is very common for household pets, where most of them are embedded with a microchip that reveals the animal’s medical history…