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Portrait of the week: Queen stays home, Boris rubbishes recycling and pay freeze thaws

30 October 2021

9:00 AM

30 October 2021

9:00 AM

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The Queen will not attend the COP26 meeting in Glasgow next week; she had resumed light duties after having spent a night in hospital for ‘preliminary medical checks’. The Queen would address COP26 by means of a recorded video. ‘The recycling thing is a red herring,’ Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, told a press conference attended by schoolchildren.

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