Demand for the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in the UK remains "incredibly strong" despite a string of EU countries pausing use of the jab in their inoculation programmes, Matt Hancock has said.The health secretary said British…

(Getty Images)City remain in contention for a famous quadruple this season, but the Champions League has proven elusive during Guardiola’s otherwise garlanded tenure, and the head coach played down their chances of sweeping all the…

New powers to crack down on protests are not needed and go “too far”, senior police and crime commissioners have said.MPs will vote on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which would lower the…

The European Union’s medicines regulator has said there is “no indication” that the AstraZeneca vaccine is linked to the blood clots that have been reported among some recipients.Emer Cooke, head of the European Medicines Agency…

But the secretary of state appears to have gotten his sums wrong as forecasts for inflation in 2021-22, the year the pay rise will come into effect for more than a million NHS staff, says…

Today's daily politics briefingBoris Johnson’s government has confirmed the UK’s nuclear arsenal could be increased, as the prime minister prepares to set out his post-Brexit foreign and defence policy in the Commons on Tuesday.Foreign secretary…

WHO assessing AstraZeneca vaccineMedical experts and leaders across the UK have defended the AstraZenecavaccine after multiple European countries paused its use over concerns that the jab may lead to blood clots.Boris Johnson said there was…

Priti Patel has been accused of launching an assault on Britain’s democratic traditions with a crackdown on protests that would make it a crime to cause “serious annoyance or inconvenience” by taking part in a…