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Reform UK announced its intention to enter into the independence debate in Scotland, pledging to sweep up pro-Union voters and give them a voice against the likes of Ms Sturgeon. Enlisting ex-Tory MSP Michelle Ballantyne as its Scottish leader, Mr Farage was back on the campaign push before May s important Holyrood elections. Ms Sturgeon, who has spent the years since Scotland voted to stay in the UK clamouring for another vote, is aiming to use this year s election to get her independence dream back on track.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Hungary has ignored the bloc’s joint scheme to become the first European country to authorise Russia Sputnik Vaccine and the Oxford jab. In a scathing interview, the firebrand leader insisted he would not wait for bungling eurocrats to dish out doses while Hungarians are dying. Mr Orban said he had pushed on with authorising the Oxford jab and Russian vaccine because the European Medicines Agency had been too slow with its own approval.
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The institution’s top eurocrat revealed officials are working on a facility in Brussels to deliver Covid jabs to MEPs, staff and assistants who are at risk from the virus. Similar centres could be opened in Strasbourg and Luxembourg where the Parliament also has official premises. Klaus Welle, the Parliament’s secretary-general, said officials are working with “Belgian health authorities” to open the first vaccination centre.
Ministers are examining a raft of measures to secure the UK s borders against highly transmissible strains of coronavirus from overseas.
International travel has been slashed to a fraction of what it was before the pandemic struck, but different countries have used different measures to secure themselves against imported cases while fighting the home-grown spread.
The UK has until recently taken a very soft-touch approach to policing both foreign arrivals and British citizens arriving home from overseas travel.
But with the Covid death toll now at a pandemic high ministers are looking at a range of measures that could be introduced to make Britain and Northern Ireland more secure.
St Helena
There will also be an exemption until 4am on January 21 for people who began their journey in:
Antigua and Barbuda
Barbados
Which countries are subject to travel bans?
Travel to and from all of South America, Portugal and Cape Verde was banned from 4am last Friday.
British and Irish nationals as well as people with residency rights will be exempt, but will have to self-isolate for ten days with their household on returning from any countries on the banned list.
A similar ban was put into place for South Africa on December 23 last year, after another new variant was identified by scientists. On January 9, the rules were also applied to Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho, Mozambique, Angola, Seychelles and Mauritius.