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Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:01:14 GMTBoris Johnson news - live: UK ministers urge Trump to cede power peacefully as Tory likens US riots to Brexit
Follow here for the latest updates on UK politics
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:07:37 GMTTrump’s comments ‘directly led’ to violence at US Capitol building, says Priti Patel
Home secretary says it was ‘completely wrong’ the US president failed to condemn the violence
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:43:27 GMTDC protest reaction - live: Boris Johnson condemns ‘disgraceful US scenes’ as UK reacts to violence in Captiol
Follow the UK’s reaction to scenes in Washington as they unfolded
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:42:45 GMTGovernment consults on gene editing for UK farms to tackle ‘challenges of our age’
Move comes as agriculture ministers urge EU to roll back regulation on scientific breakthrough
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:39:51 GMTThousands of homeless people slip off radar despite government pledge to house them
Exclusive: Ministers refusing to restart programme that saw rough sleepers given accommodation during first wave of pandemic despite fears many have returned to streets
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:24:50 GMTMore than a million new universal claimants have benefits deducted as UK enters another lockdown
Families forced to claim universal credit at start of pandemic are struggling to get by on far less than what government’s own benefit calculations suggest they need, charity warns
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:17:22 GMTWomen turned to alcohol ‘more often than men’ in the first lockdown
‘It could reflect that men and women respond to stress differently,’ says expert
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:12:48 GMTInside Politics: Boris Johnson urged to condemn Donald Trump
The prime minister mourns ‘disgraceful scenes’ in US – but opposition MPs want him to criticise the man who made them happen, writes Adam Forrest
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:02:53 GMTMatt Hancock says he is not aiming for a ‘zero-Covid’ Britain
‘We’re going to have a great summer,' predicts ‘optimistic’ health secretary