Latest updates: 60 MPs vote against government plans while former special adviser Dominic Cummings publishes messages purporting to show PM’s criticism of health secretary Matt Hancock
- Tory MPs speak out against delaying lifting of final restrictions
- Cummings texts show Johnson calling Matt Hancock ‘totally hopeless’
- PM plans to leave No 10 two years after next election, Cummings claims
- Analysis of Jeremy Hunt’s rejection of claims that Matt Hancock lied
- Delta variant could have R zero number as high as 7, MPs told
- Vaccines likely to become less effective against infection, MPs told
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So to conclude, MPs have this evening approved the extension of coronavirus restrictions in England until 19 July.
The prime minister was spared a defeat as Labour backed plans for a four-week delay to the end of lockdown measures, aimed at buying more time for the vaccine programme.
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