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British Prime minister Boris Johnson announces all pandemic legal curbs in England will end later this week, urging a shift from government intervention to personal responsibility. Johnson, who has been mired in scandals that have threatened his hold on power, says the legal need for people to self-isolate when infected with Covid-19 would stop from Thursday 24 February 2022. SOUNDBITE
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirms that his country will build nuclear-powered submarines in a new partnership with the United States and Britain. "We intend to build these submarines in Adelaide, Australia, in close cooperation with the United Kingdom and the United States," he says in a video conference with US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asks "if not now, when?" on "Freedom Day" in England, when the majority of Covid restrictions are being lifted, even as case numbers rise. SOUNDBITE
Irish Prime minister Leo Varadkar says that Ireland will accelerate its plan to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions in the coming days. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tells the House of Commons he has "absolute conviction" in his government's plan to send migrants to Rwanda ahead of a vote in parliament on the bill which has exposed schisms in his ruling Conservative party. The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, if passed, will compel judges to treat Rwanda as a safe third country and proposes giving UK ministers powers to disregard sections of international and British human rights legislation. SOUNDBITE
At the start of his appearance at the UK's Covid-19 inquiry, Prime Minister and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he is "deeply sorry... to all of those who lost loved ones, family members, through the pandemic." SOUNDBITE
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