-Johnson is said to have made "huge concessions", likely to anger Brexiteers in Britain
THURSDAY 24th
Merry Brexmas
-Johnson is expected to make the Brexit deal announcement today at around 08:00GMT
-Johnson will first talk to EU Chief at 07:00GMT to sign and seal after "late night wrangles over individual fish species" (not a joke)
-Johnson is said to have made "huge concessions", likely to anger Brexiteers in Britain
-Passengers travelling from South Africa to England today will be denied entry, after government scientists and ministers became increasingly alarmed about a new strain of the coronavirus that has emerged in the country.
-"Government sources warned that the South African strain had the potential to be the next big COVID story" Great
-Trump has pardoned Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Charles Kushner
-He granted full pardons to 26 more people on last night
-More waves of pardons expected in the coming week
-Moderna expects its vaccine to protect against UK coronavirus variant
-"We have tested against a number of previous variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that have emerged since the first outbreak of the pandemic and found our vaccine to remain equally effective"
-Trump to hold Iran responsible for the recent attacks on American embassies in Iraq
-"Embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday by several rockets. Guess where they were from: IRAN. Some friendly health advice to Iran: If one American is killed, I will hold Iran responsible."
-House to move forward with $2000 stimulus payment vote today
-House Dems plan to try to pass $2,000 stimulus payment via unanimous consent. If that does not work, they will push a bill on Monday to increase the $600 payment in the existing relief package to $2,000
-Chinese financial regulators summon Ant Group for a meeting 🧐
-"China has launched an antitrust investigation into Alibaba Group and will summon the tech giant’s Ant Group affiliate to meet in coming days"
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Corbyn opposes the exploitation of foreign sweatshop-workers - Labour MPs complain he's like Nigel
He speaks up in defence of migrants - Labour MPs whinge that he's not listening to the public's very real concerns about immigration:
He's wrong to prioritise Labour Party members over the public:
He's wrong to prioritise the public over Labour Party