The EU’s vaccine tsar has said that AstraZeneca has agreed that all but one batch of its Covid vaccine produced at a Netherlands plant will be sent to European member states rather than Britain.In an…

Mary Dejevsky is an Independent columnist on foreign affairs, having previously been the title’s foreign correspondent in Moscow, Paris and Washington. She has written about the collapse of communism from inside Moscow, the dissolution of…

Wait ‘two or three weeks’ to book foreign holidays, Grant Shapps saysTravel industry leaders have criticised the government’s new plans to allow international travel to continue from 17 May as unaffordable and risked “making flying…

Anti-vaxxers are seeking to exploit new evidence of links between the AstraZeneca jab and blood clots to undermine the UK’s vaccination programme, public health experts have warned.They called for a “sustained” information campaign over the…

NHS England is to cancel all booked first-dose coronavirus vaccinations for adults under 30 from tomorrow after the change in advice over the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.From tomorrow, anyone aged between 18 and 29 who has been…

Starmer urges PM to 'step up' on Northern Ireland and address post-Brexit issues.mp4Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis has arrived in Belfast for talks with political leaders to discuss the violence that has gripped parts of…

Rishi Sunak was today facing questions over a possible breach of the ministerial code, after it emerged he told David Cameron in a private text message he had “pushed” Treasury officials over the ex-prime minister’s…

Joe Biden has long campaigned for stricter gun controlJoe Biden’s much-awaited gun control agenda is set to kick into action today as the president lines up six executive actions on what one adviser has called…