"I hope that you will agree with me that the Government must make it clear to Twitter's new owners a digital P&O would not be acceptable and that no-one is above the law in the UK, including big tech barons."

With Hancock due to enter the camp this week, in a stinging rebuke last night, Mr Sunak said: Gadgetinku I think politics is a noble profession, at its best - it can and Gadgetinku should be. But it's incumbent on politicians to earn people's respect and trust.

Twitter employee Simon Balmain told Sky News: "Late last night we all received an email saying there is going to be a large reduction in headcount and the email stated that if we would be laid off, it would go to our personal email and if not to our work email.

Hundreds of UK staff could be among the thousands of Twitter employees set to be sacked by Elon Musk - as the social media platform's offices in London were locked this evening with workers told to stay at home until next week.

It details Republican Senator Chuck Grassley's revelation that agent Tim Thibault as part of a ''scheme' to discredit derogatory' information on President Joe Biden's son, and caused allegations from the laptop to be 'falsely' labelled as 'disinformation'

A member of security staff at Twitter's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in Dublin told reporters that nobody was coming into the office on Friday and employees had been told to stay home.

Simon Deakin, a professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, said if 100 or more employees are sacked within a period of 90 days, the Business Secretary must be notified 45 days before the first dismissal.

Twitter's London headquarters at Piccadilly CIrcus, where it is understood around 1,000 members of staff are based, were deserted this evening with no employees arriving as they were left in the wondering about their futures. 

It's important to say there is a paucity of scientific evidence in this area.

Before NHS doctors can recommend treatment, they need to have gone through large controlled clinical trials. No specific long Covid therapy has met this bar, so far.

E-cigarettes are safer in that they don't burn tobacco, nor produce tar or carbon monoxide, but rather heat a liquid which contains nicotine, propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine, and various flavourings.

Rishi Sunak has taken the extraordinary step of publicly rebuking Matt Hancock for his decision to join I'm A Celebrity...

Get Me Out Of Here for an estimated £400,000 fee, declaring: 'I was very disappointed with Matt's decision'.

Mr Sunak refused to say if he had spoken to Mr Hancock before he headed Down Under and when asked if he would join the army of MPs and millions at home who will vote for him to do Bushtucker Trials, the PM insisted he 'genuinely won't have time' to watch.

Mr Clancy described the situation as the "digital P&O" - in reference to the shipping company, which was widely condemned after it sacked nearly 800 crew members without notice in March and replaced them with cheaper agency workers.

And the vast majority suffered only a mild initial Covid infection, not requiring hospitalisation. But for almost all who experience it - ‘long-haulers', as they are sometimes called - the illness impairs every aspect of life.

The condition affects multiple organs and bodily systems, causing a huge variety of problems to varying degrees of severity and duration. Crucially, they vary from person to person, and are not likely to be consistent - they can come and go.

Staff have been told that everyone received an email by 9am PST (4pm GMT) on Friday, with those who are affected by the cuts set to receive the message on their personal email address rather than the one associated with their work.

Speaking in Egypt at the Cop27 climate change summit, the Prime Minister believes the former Health Secretary will alienate voters in his West Suffolk constituents more than 10,000 miles from his ITV jungle camp.

The report was created without the help of the Democrats on the committee, which are the majority party, and was released four days before the midterm elections and signals that the GOP will target the bureau if they retake the majority in the House. 

Histamine is produced by immune system cells called mast cells - which are thought to become over-active in some people after Covid infection. In theory, by dampening this activity, the symptoms of long Covid could be reduced.

While concerns have been posed over the harm nicotine in vapes may cause, the NHS says most of the harm from smoking comes from the 'thousands of other chemicals in tobacco smoke, many of which are toxic' and advises that nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) has been used widely for many years.

A scroll through TikTok will offer accounts from vendors advertising a selection of the 'bars' on offer, with the 'vapinguk' tag amassing some 54,600 views; peanuts compared to the 2.2 billion views under '#vaping' and 16.6 million under '#vapingtricks'.

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