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more now on germany, where its new chancellor olaf scholz will be sworn in as leader of europe s largest economy later today. he will be the first social democrat in the job for 16 years and has promised to modernise the country. among the raft of measures to get the german people on side is a promise to raise the minimum wage to 12 euros, which is almost a two and half euro increase. this would give some 10 million germans an instant pay rise. he s also announced plans to build 400 thousand new homes a year, which is 100 thousand more than previously planned, and guarantee stable pension levels. so will 0laf scholz deliver and what challenges does he face? carsten brezeski is global head of macro research at ing. your thoughts on the first thing in the in tray? yet the mac first thing he has to do is deal with covid and the fourth wave of the pandemic plus a mcron as we have not had really any government decision of the last couple of weeks so this is the first thi ....
hello and welcome. borisjohnson will be under renewed pressure to explain a christmas party in downing street last year when he appears at prime minister s questions today. footage has emerged which shows senior staff laughing and joking about the event. the opposition labour leader, sir keir starmer, has urged the prime minister to come clean and apologise because, at the time, coronavirus rules banned such events. number ten has maintained that there was no party and no rules had been broken. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. party? what party? the party that number 10 said didn t happen. in the building where boris johnson said tight covid rules were always followed. the party last year that a guest told us had food, drinks and games, and the party we now seem to see downing street staffjoking about a few days later. this was a practice press conference for allegra stratton, just hired as the prime minister s press spokesperson. i ve just seen reports ....