party s history, and for boris johnson, it was a rare election defeat. yes, it was certainly a disappointing result, but there were particular circumstances there, and we are getting on with delivering our agenda for the whole country. cheering. this victory could be down to many things. a well organised campaign on local issues and lingering anti brexit sentiment in a remain voting area. but many conservatives believe in a general election the result would still go their way. vicki young, bbc news, amersham. from today, all adults in england can book in their coronavirus vaccine as part of the governments plan to vaccinate as many over 18 s as possible ahead of the new target date, for the end of restrictions onjuly 19th. it comes as new data from public health england suggests that a single dose of the pfizer or astrazeneca vaccine reduces the risk of needing hospital treatment by three quarters. here s our health correspondent catherine burns.
not necessarily to spread democracy, but to shore it up and counter the rise of what he sees as autocracies in the asia pacific region. well, we might have an idea by the end of this weekend whether america is indeed back and whether the rest of the world is prepared to accept its leadership in some of these issues. for now, thanks very much for going through all of that here. we ve got a few minutes, let s just give each of you a chance to mark our cards, mark the audience s cards, for any other stories that maybe haven t been getting the attention they should. brian, do you want to kick off first? yes, ithink. well, we were talking about brexit and northern ireland a moment. ago and the big problem with that, i suppose, is trust. there is a lack of trust - between the eu and the uk, and you get the feeling that borisjohnson- isn t actually trusted by brussels at the moment. one example of that, j if you actually want to
well, we were talking about brexit and northern ireland a moment. ago and the big problem with that, i suppose, is trust. there is a lack of trust - between the eu and the uk, and you get the feeling that borisjohnson- isn t actually trusted by brussels at the moment. one example of that, | if you actually want to know about boris johnson look at the story earlier this week l when there was a bit of a row in the house of commons about a reduction in i britain s foreign aid contribution from 7% of gross - national income to 5%. now, that represents. something in the region of about £4 billion a year. it actually makes a huge difference to what they are doing and vaccine roll out| that they are talking about now and donations of vaccines are not going to make up for that huge loss. - but borisjohnson, - in doing that, and then