Britain’s 95-year-old monarch will not travel to Northern Ireland but is “in good spirits,” Buckingham Palace said.
Author: Shashank Bengali
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s slowness last year to impose a lockdown and institute widespread testing had tragic results, according to a parliamentary report.
Britain’s stumbling pandemic response cost thousands of lives, parliamentary report finds.
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