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and h totally get that. but in another blow to the prime minister, the conservative party chairman resigned straight after the by election results saying someone must take responsibilty. the labour leader sir keir starmer says the tories are imploding . with the prime minister out of the country in rwanda, we ll be asking if this is a moment of political peril for borisjohnson. also this lunchtime: ukrainain troops ordered to retreat from the key eastern city of severodonetsk. figures just out show another big rise in the number of covid infections in the uk 1.7 million people had the virus last week. and welcome back to worthy farm after three years, it s the long awaited return of glastonbury. coming up on the bbc news channel can emma raducanu repeat her us open championship exploits at wimbledon? she ll face belgian alison van uytvanck in the first round. hello, good afternoon. borisjohnson says he will keep going as prime minister, despite the double blo ....
good afternoon. at the covid inquiry, the prime minister, rishi sunak, has apologised to all those who suffered as a result of the government s decisions during the pandemic. he s also expected to face questions about his controversial eat out to help out scheme, aimed at helping the hospitality sector. scientific advisers have already told the inquiry they didn t know about the plan until it was announced and there were concerns it would spread the virus. our political correspondent pete saull has been watching. it was at news conferences like this that many of us got to know rishi sunak. he had been promoted to chancellorjust before sunak. he had been promoted to chancellor just before a sunak. he had been promoted to chancellorjust before a global pandemic struck. of course a lot of politics has happened since then. he has moved from number 11 to number ten and this morning made the trip across london for a grilling of his actions at the time of covid. quite someth ....
covid and therefore tough measures to keep r below one but also required more research and support from the nhs who found it quite difficult because it was a new disease and because of its nature presenting in many different ways, they found that long tarmac difficult to categorise at first and so with simon stephens will work together to bring forward clinics that could look across the range of conditions that are mostly gathered under the term long covid. i cared a lot about this for personal reasons as well as professional. we did not need to sign off from the centre, we just got on with it. do you happen to know, notwithstanding the early days of 2020, the campaign about long covid wasn t launched until october, do you know why there was that potential lag in the communication side of the debate? side of the debate? yes, i think it was essentially side of the debate? yes, i think it was essentially bleak, was essentially bleak, understandably the clinicians fou ....
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tella s more about the detail of what was happening in the cabinet and the disagreements there. he talks and the disagreements there. he: talks about how and the disagreements there. he talks about how boris johnson wasn t talks about how borisjohnson wasn t really in charge, key decisions were being taken by dominic cummings. you may say it s not a massive surprise, he was the chancellor in the early 2020 and resigned in february 2020 after a very public row with dominic cummings. it may not come as a prize he was critical of borisjohnson s chief adviser. it paints a picture, you and i have spoken about it, this picture of ks and dysfunctionality in number ten. we will get more of this. he talked about how the cabinet was less experienced than previous governments. we will be hearing about his time as chancellor in the run up, the early part of the pandemic, but he was a health secretary following matt hancock in the spring of 2021. matt hancock resigned following a sc ....