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Any further measures to limit the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus would lead to a recall of the House of Commons for a vote, the cabinet minister Grant Shapps has said. After disquiet among backbenchers over plans for vaccine certificates led to a rebellion by 99 Conservative MPs on Tuesday, Shapps told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he believed the precautions now in pace would be enough to keep Omicron under control. But he said: “If more measures were required … then of course the house would be recalled and those measures would be put to the house. But I don’t…

Sajid Javid and his top health advisers were today accused of scare-mongering after clarifying that gloomy models do estimate that 200,000 Britons could be catching Omicron every day. The Health Secretary last night told MPs that daily Covid infections were thought to have breached the 200,000 mark. But his comments, made in a statement discussing the threat of Omicron, sparked immediate confusion over whether the figure was relating to the virus as a whole, or specifically just the super-mutant variant. Department of Health insiders last night told The Telegraph that Mr Javid was correct to imply Omicron cases had hit 200,000 a day.…

Passenger railroad operator Amtrak said Tuesday it will suspend its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees and no longer expects service disruptions in January. Amtrak Chief Executive Bill Flynn said in a memo obtained by The Epoch Times that employees who aren’t vaccinated can get tested instead. Fewer than 500 Amtrak workers are unvaccinated, he said. Informing Amtrak’s decision was a recent federal court order that “halted the enforcement of the executive order for federal contractors” which caused the firm to reevaluate its policy toward vaccine mandates, Flynn wrote. It means Amtrak will revert back to its original vaccine mandate that it announced in August, which…

Bookmakers have made the Liberal Democrats the favourites to win this week’s North Shropshire byelection, odds that if reflected in Thursday’s vote would deliver a significant fresh blow to Boris Johnson’s authority. Lib Dem campaigners stress that the result is hard to predict, given variables such as turnout and the number of Labour and Green supporters who decide to vote tactically. But the party says it is “neck and neck” in the usually ultra-safe Conservative seat, which was held by Owen Paterson in the 2019 election with a near-23,000 majority and has been Tory for all but two of the last 190 years. The byelection was…

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been stripped of the Arsenal captaincy and will not be selected for Wednesday’s match against West Ham, throwing the striker’s future at the club into doubt. Mikel Arteta dropped Aubameyang from the squad that beat Southampton on Saturday over returning late from a trip abroad and the manager afterwards refused to take questions on the player’s status as club captain. But it was far from the 32-year-old’s first such offence and, as Arsenal made clear in a statement on Tuesday, Arteta’s patience has run out. “Following his latest disciplinary breach last week, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will no longer be our club captain, and will…

The government is launching what it says will be “common sense” reforms to the Human Rights Act that will “restore confidence” in the legal system. The proposals commit to staying within the European Convention on Human Rights, despite pressure from some Conservatives to leave the treaty. Justice Secretary Dominic Raab says the plans will prevent a right to family life being abused by foreign criminals. Critics warn the final measures could be muddled and unnecessary. What is the Human Rights Act? The Human Rights Act was introduced more than 20 years ago and it sets out in law a set…

On Monday, Health Secretary Sajid Javid told Sky News there were 10 individuals in hospital with the new Omicron variant. Dominic Raab then said there were 250, but later told the BBC there were nine. Officials say there are in fact still 10. There are currently 10 people in hospital with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 – not 250, as Dominic Raab told Sky News. The deputy prime minister later told the BBC that there were nine people in hospital with the variant. But officials have clarified that Mr Raab “misspoke” on both occasions by getting his figures wrong, and that there…

General Hospital star Ingo Rademacher is suing ABC over its “blatantly unlawful” actions after he was fired from the show for failing to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. In a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by the law firm of JW Howard Attorneys on Monday, lawyers for Rademacher claim he requested a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate in October but that ABC refused his request just a month later. “General Hospital” is filmed in Hollywood, California, and in November, a vaccine mandate went into effect for actors and staff working on “Zone A,” which comprises of those present on set when the actors aren’t wearing masks, and the actors…

Partners of Christ Embassy Zaria, northern Nigeria donate stationery items to Police Area Command Headquarters in honor of Pastor Chris. On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, partners of Christ Embassy, Zaria, Nigeria North West Zone 1, donated stationery items to the Nigeria Police, Area Command Headquarters, Zaria, Kaduna State. The donation was part of the events marking the International Day of Service in honor of the man of God, Reverend (Dr.) Chris Oyakhilome whose birthday was celebrated on December 7th. This also comes as a timely response to an earlier appeal by the Command Headquarters for logistics support. A cross section…

Rents have risen by more than 20 per cent in some parts of the country during the past two years, new figures have suggested, but dropped in London The increase in rental values is the most pronounced in the South West, up 23.5 per cent since January 2020. It is the equivalent of a rise of £195 per month, according to the figures from Hamptons. In contrast, typical rents in Inner London have fallen 11.6 per cent and on average it costs £305 less to rent there than in January 2020. The estate agents compiled the figures using a database of…