In this issue

January 18, 2022

Military tackling crossings will aid people smugglers

Ex-navy chief says plan will give traffikers ‘effiient conduit’

4 mins

Johnson was told garden party ‘broke the rules' but said it should go ahead

Dominic Cummings claims email is proof the PM was lying

4 mins

Lords to investigate Tory peer over PPE contracts

Tory peer Michelle Mone is being investigated over alleged links between her and a company that was awarded PPE contracts worth more than £200m via a so-called “VIP lane”.

2 mins

Tens of thousands died at home without proper care in pandemic, charity warns

Tens of thousands of people are likely to have died in their houses without adequate care during the pandemic, The Independent has learnt.

4 mins

Scrapping travel tests could trigger ‘hard lockdowns'

After leaks suggested Covid tests for fully vaccinated arrivals to the UK could be scrapped by the end of January, the testing industry has warned the move could trigger “hard lockdowns”.

2 mins

Covid rules in England could end by the spring

The government is said to be drawing up plans to ditch Covid laws in England from as early as the spring.

2 mins

Labour says government's attack on BBC a bid to stop PM becoming ‘dead meat'

The government has been accused of launching an attack on the BBC to distract from the Partygate scandal and stop Boris Johnson becoming “dead meat”.

3 mins

Rising energy bills could ‘devastate' poorest families

Soaring energy bills threaten to “devastate” the UK’s poorest families, who face spending more than half of their income after housing costs on gas and electricity this year, a leading charity has warned.

2 mins

Amazon postpones plan to stop buyers using Visa cards

Amazon has postponed its plan to stop customers using Visa credit cards at the last minute.

2 mins

It's hard to see any deal benefiting customers

A head-to-head battle between two giants of global commerce appears to have ended in a truce after Amazon backed down on its decision to block UK Visa credit cards on its site.

2 mins

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