Parliamentary records show that Health Minister Lord Bethell, a friend of Mr Hancock s, sponsored lobbyist Gina Coladangelo s access to Westminster from April 2020 until at least October.
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Mr Johnson s spending on the ship has come under fire in recent weeks, most recently by former Tory chancellor Ken Clarke who branded it silly populist nonsense .
Lord Clarke s criticism came as official figures showed that government borrowing stood at £24.3 billion in May - down from £43.8 billion a year earlier at the height of the pandemic, but still the second highest figure for the month on record and £18.9 billion more than in 2019.
The Conservative peer told BBC Radio 4 s Today programme that the new vessel is a complete waste of time, silly populist nonsense and we have no money for it.
[Outbreak 6.26]The new variant Delta+ spreads to 11 countries | COVID-19 | CCP virus | Wuhan pneumonia
June 27, 2021 by archyde
[Epoch Times, June 26, 2021](Epoch Times reporters Chen Ting, Li Yan, Zhang Ting, Yan Shujing report) According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, as of Saturday (6 26th) 12:15 noon, globalChinese Communist virus（Wuhan pneumoniaThe total number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 180 million (180,506,924), and the death toll exceeds 3.91 million (3,911,517).
The following is the number of newly confirmed cases and deaths in a single day on June 25 (Friday) (part of the data comes from worldometer):
12,667 confirmed cases and 349 deaths in the United States;
15,374 cases were confirmed in the UK and 18 people died;
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Queen Elizabeth II approves appointment of Sajid Javid as replacement
By AFP Published: Jun 27, 2021 05:27 PM
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock arrives at 10 Downing Street for the COVID-19 committee meeting in London, Britain, on May 6, 2020. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Xinhua)
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigned on Saturday following revelations that he broke government coronavirus restrictions during an affair with a close aide, with former finance minister Sajid Javid taking up the role.
The frontman for Britain s response to the pandemic, particularly the nationwide vaccine roll out, quit in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. We owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down as I have done by breaching the guidance, he wrote.
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