Health

Last month, Boris Johnson questioned whether the higher life expectancy in Ribble Valley when compared to Blackpool is down to “monkey glands” being applied and “royal jelly” being eaten.

The government advert will run on UK TV stations to help fill more than 100,000 social care vacancies, with health secretary Sajid Javid praising the "exciting and rewarding" career.

It comes amid a new surge in coronavirus cases in Britain which is more than three-times the infection rate of the EU average. 

“Sounds a bit like, do as I say not as I do," Andrew Marr told Sunak.

Boris Johnson said vaccines will get the country through the winter and out of the pandemic, while NHS England’s national medical director Professor Stephen Powis said getting a booster will “protect the freedom and Christmas that we have all earned”.

Working shorter hours was found to boost productivity due to workers recovering from fatigue and coming into work with more energy and increased concentration. 

“Boris Johnson promised at the G7 that he was going to vaccinate the whole world... but since then, so little has happened that we now face the possibility of every target being missed," the former prime minister has said.

“The UK is showing us why we shouldn’t give up masks too quickly,” the infectious disease specialist has said.

“It would appear that even senior government ministers were reluctant to push back on scientific advice that seemed to go against commonsense interpretations of the unfolding crisis,” said Professor Trish Greenhalgh.