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What Brexit Promised, and Boris Johnson Failed to Deliver

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Britain today is a poor and divided country. Parts of London and the southeast of England might be among the wealthiest places on the planet, but swaths of northern England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are among Western Europe’s poorest. Barely a decade ago, the average Brit was as wealthy as the average German. Now they are about 15 percent poorer—and 30 percent worse off than the typical American.

The great project of Boris Johnson’s government is to “unite

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Volunteers give up their Christmas Day to deliver Covid booster ‘jingle-jabs’

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Volunteers have given up their Christmas Day to deliver thousands of Covid booster jabs in special centres across England.

NHS England has said that thousands of first, second and third jabs will be given on December 25 as the Government races to boost national immunity against Omicron before the variant plunges the country further into crisis.

Appointments are available in at least eight locations including London, Manchester, Swindon and Eastbourne. However, vaccination centres are not open in Scotland, Wales or

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Time to de-liver – EURACTIV.com

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When you think of the leading causes of death and disease in the EU, you would likely think of cancer or something affecting the heart or lungs.

You might not think of the liver, the silent hero pumping away all the excesses of our lives (which seems appropriate as we reach the holiday season).

But, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), liver disease is now the second leading cause of years of working life lost in Europe – and

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