According to the Times, there is a "Russian tycoon" behind the project

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But it remains relatively early days: No effective vaccine has ever been developed as rapidly as is being attempted for Covid-19. 

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Boris Johnson has taken a more gradualist approach to the exclusion of Huawei than his Tory critics wanted and UK telecoms companies feared.

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If the borrowing explosion is a crisis, it is not a peculiarly British crisis, but it is a crisis of the whole west.

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The measure of Sunak is whether he is the Chancellor who uniquely cures the UK's high-skilled job creation sclerosis.

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Travelling to Dudley on Tuesday for the PM’s socially distanced “New Deal” launch was a bit of shocker.

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David Frost is to become the National Security Adviser, in succession to Sir Mark Sedwill.

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The first local lockdown could take place within days after a surge of cases in the Leicester area.

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Our revised way of life will feel anything but normal, and also bloomin' complicated.

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At three-years-old, Alexandra Naggear is one of the youngest victims of the Beirut explosion that has killed at least 160 people and injured about 6,000 others.

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The Job Retention Scheme, which has subsidised the incomes of six million people across the UK, is set to end in October which will reveal the full extent of the crisis.

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Preston has been included in additional lockdown restrictions that apply to parts of East Lancashire, Greater Manchester and parts of West Yorkshire from midnight.

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If the Bank’s central forecast is right, around a million people will find themselves out of work in the run up to Christmas.

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Igor Grechushkin, the owner of the cargo ship that brought the explosive materials to Beirut in 2014, was questioned by Cypriot police after a request by Interpol.

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There are fears a 'recipe for disaster', stirred up by the coronavirus crisis, could result in huge levels of violent crime.

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When Robert Moore and I were asked to do a US election podcast, the question naturally turned to a name.

Will Trump defy the odds and win? 2016 called to say write him off at your peril

Will Trump Win? will be a blend of commentary, analysis and discussion between myself and the podcast maestro Dan Hewitt, with a number of splendid, informed and incisive American guests thrown in to the mix. And we need you too!

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