Politics

Britain was the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine because it has "much better" regulators than France, Belgium and the US, a senior minister has claimed.

A review into the government's handling of the pandemic will accuse ministers of "gambling with the UK's future" by relaxing restrictions over Christmas.

A peer is facing suspension for at least 18 months for bullying and harassment of three MPs and a security guard.

It will take "some months" for the UK's most vulnerable people to be vaccinated against coronavirus, the prime minister has said.

Almost a year living with COVID, finally on Wednesday came a genuinely brilliant breakthrough: the UK regulator became the first in the world to approve the Pzifer-BioNTech vaccine, with the roll-out of jabs to the most vulnerable in our society beginning next week.