The number of EU citizens searching for work in the UK has slumped by 36 per cent since Brexit, a new report has revealed.

‘These figures are unequivocally too high and harming children’s health,’ says WHO director of public health and environment

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Huge testing and vaccine operation appear to have brought surge under control in Blackburn with Darwen

Beverley Turner says she supports people who refuse to take vaccine

‘That’s how the triple lock works. That is government policy’, chancellor says – when confronted with huge bill for pension rule

Traffic light decisions are ‘kept under constant review’

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‘These figures are unequivocally too high and harming children’s health,’ says WHO director of public health and environment

‘I am therefore delighted to be able to return to the work I love’

Focus on better jobs, the environment, safer communities and putting ‘families first’ will start with clean slate

Roger Taylor says it is ‘always tempting’ to blame algorithms but ‘that is wrong response’

Paramedics did not arrive for 20 minutes, leaving staff, police and survivors to help casualties

‘We have broken through’ deadlock says Sinn Fein

Tories rebel even though daily infections hit highest rate since February

‘I don’t believe we are institutionally corrupt,’ says commissioner

‘The mistakes were made by humans, not machines,’ Roger Taylor says

Fire service says canine was key to convincing woman to work with emergency responders

Children given only half an hour out of their rooms per day in ‘bleak regime’

Former adviser says PM trying to ‘rewrite history’ and ‘cannot now be trusted on Covid’

Boris Johnson’s humiliation over unlawful shutdown of Parliament described as ‘clear indication of constitution working’

Martin Hockridge, 57, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with public order offence

Former Good Morning Britain host compares getting vaccinated to wearing seatbelt when driving

‘We cremated someone else’s cat,’ says owner Rachel Fitzsimons

Roads on either side of Britain’s busiest pedestrian junction will be transformed

Race is now on try to get millions more vaccines into arms

Former No 10 aide Dominic Cummings published Boris Johnson’s brutal assessment of health secretary

People living in affected local authorities, from Bedford to Blackpool and London to Liverpool, urged to take particular caution in coming weeks

Comments risks exacerbating tensions with Euopean Union

‘Richard Madeley must be one hell of an Alan Partridge fan’

Forecasters are warning ‘intense’ thunderstorms are set to hit UK

Claim suggests resignation by 2026 as prime minister goes back to ‘making money and having fun’

Downing Street: ‘PM has worked very closely with health secretary throughout and will continue to do so’.

Detective Chief Inspector Andy Farrell of Bradford District Police warned residents and visitors of West Yorkshire about the dangers of swimming in open water not intended for such use

Hannah Deacon says families are being ‘still denied access to NHS prescription at every turn’

The Independent’s political commentators John Rentoul and Andrew Grice will be joined by two guest speakers, David Gauke and the Rt Hon Lord Adonis, to discuss Brexit five years on

Small print – revealed by Canberra, but suppressed in London – reveals pledge to protect farmers for 15 years has been dropped

Mother-of-two remains in critical condition in hospital following incident in south London

‘Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic’ says the government

Independent mayor Andy Preston admits some of the marketing was ‘ill-conceived’

The JCVI plans to recommend against vaccinating under-18s until more data is gathered on the risks to young people, but ministers have not yet received advice on the matter