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Ministers tempering vaccination expectations after failing to fulfil previous Covid pledges

Rebels threaten to challenge prime minister unless he sets date for lockdown exit

Ministers planning to abolish entitlements and safeguards including 48-hour working week

Political crisis triggered as ex-PM withdraws party from governing coalition

Senior Republicans less keen to protect their president at unprecedented new Senate trial

Government ministers voice doubts about plan to speed up mass immunisation programme

Influential Republican senator gives nod to his party over impeachment proceedings

German chancellor’s CDU party will elect a new leader this week

Government mobilising to boost compliance as data shows Britons not observing restrictions

President left isolated within his own party after violence in Washington D.C.

Conservatives accuse Labour leader of ‘playing politics’ over the pandemic response

Democrats on verge of taking Senate seats in victories that would swing balance of power in the upper chamber

New data suggesting one in 50 people in England are infected prompts rethink among rebel Conservatives

Boris Johnson places UK under toughest restrictions since March

Boris Johnson says Britain’s third national lockdown will be the ‘final phase of the struggle’ against the Covid-19 pandemic

Stricter coronavirus rules looking inevitable as virus continues to spread across UK

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Long-awaited trade deal struck days before deadline

Boxing Day lockdown for more of southern and eastern England

Other Eastern European EU members also opposed the blockade, which trapped their citizens in the UK

Honours commission advises against appointing Cruddas to the House of Lords

EU sets deadline of Christmas Eve as UK negotiators hint an agreement is close

1,500 lorries stuck in Kent as UK and France aim to restart trade

Compromise on EU catch reduction may have unlocked last-minute talks

France’s ban on all arrivals from the UK may be temporary - but EU-wide rules are likely to follow

MEPs set new deadline of this Sunday for agreeing future trade treaty

Civil servants’ union accuses Boris Johnson’s administration of ‘breathtaking hypocrisy’ in spending on staff

Commons may sit on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day to ratify an agreement

Michel Barnier suggests agreement in sight as No. 10 warns of no-deal

Reports say the FSB squad had been tracking Navalny since 2017

Continuation of talks announced after half-hour call between Johnson and von der Leyen

Bloc publishes proposals as negotiations remain deadlocked ahead of Sunday deadline

Bloc publishes no-deal planning as negotiators head back to the table with new deadline