The Independent - January 01, 2022

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January 01, 2022

Majority say Johnson lied about UK life after Brexit

Poll finds voters think leaving has done more harm than good

7 mins

Food supply crisis will clear UK shelves due to IT issues

Food supplies face further disruption due to a “medieval” government IT system that is still not yet ready to process postBrexit paperwork, The Independent has learned.

4 mins

Brexit is going to damage the PM in 2022 – but not in the way you might expect

Brexit and, to a lesser extent, Covid-19 are two of the things that Boris Johnson might have thought he “got done” 12 months ago, and yet here we are at the beginning of another year likely to be dominated by both.

4 mins

Javid warns Covid curbs must remain a ‘last resort'

Restrictions on freedom “must be an absolute last resort” and the UK must look to “live alongside” coronavirus in 2022, the health secretary has said.

3 mins

Security checked at UK test sites after anti-vaxxer chaos

Security is being reviewed at Covid testing sites across the UK after anti-vaxxers stormed a drive-through facility in Milton Keynes, The Independent understands.

2 mins

Will Blair gong ‘unblock' honours for PM successors?

Tony Blair’s appointment to the Order of the Garter will spark speculation over whether similar honours are in the offing for his successors as prime minister Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May.

2 mins

Whitty among scientists honoured for Covid heroics

After a year in which science helped guide humanity through the darkness of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the UK’s leading experts have been recognised in the new year honours list.

2 mins

BBC under fire again for coverage of Maxwell case after brother interviewed

The BBC is facing renewed criticism for running an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother Ian in which he claimed her sex-trafficking trial had been “unfair”.

3 mins

South Africa lifts curfew as Omicron wave subsides

South Africa’s fourth Covid wave fuelled by the more contagious Omicron strain may have peaked, government officials believe as restrictions were lifted ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations.

2 mins

Was Epstein actually rich or was it all simply a facade?

The New York attorney wanted to ask me something. We were at a fraud conference in Cambridge. He was a regular at the event, as was I. He’d flown over to speak and to catch up with old friends.

4 mins

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