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A council in East Lancashire has introduced a new initiative to help the community to keep warm this winter during the cost-of-living crisis.

For over a century, life expectancy in Britain was increasing rapidly – until it came to a crashing halt. Today, a man living in a poorer part of the country is likely to die 27 years sooner than someone in a more affluent region – and the impact of the pandemic threatens to widen the gap further still. Where did we go wrong, and how do we restore parity across the nation?

Matt Hancock with Gina Coladangelo outside Broadcasting House Credit: REUTERS/Tom Nicholson SIR – What a shambles! I am a staunch Conservative but I have to agree with comments made by Sir Keir Starmer on the news channels. The Prime Minister made two huge errors. He should have sacked Dominic Cummings after his spree at Barnard Castle and Matt Hancock immediately, instead of saying, after he had received an apology, that the matter was “closed”. The Prime Minister needs to be more like Churchill, who had the strength of character to replace at least one close friend in his Cabinet duri...