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Article thumbnail: THIS IMAGE MAY ONLY BE USED FOR 14 DAYS FROM THE TIME OF DELIVERY AND MUST BE CREDITED TO THE COPYRIGHT OWNER AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER TO BE USED SOLELY IN CONJUNCTION WITH PROMOTING THE UK PICTURE EDITOR'S GUILD 2023 AWARDS. EDITORIAL USE ONLY AND NO ARCHIVING, ALL LICENSING SHOULD BE REFERED TO THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER. Handout photo taken by Jeff J Mitchell of Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss speaking at the only Scottish Conservative leadership hustings, which has been shortlisted in the Fixation News Photographer of the Year category at the UK Picture Editors Guild Awards 2023. Issue date: Saturday August 19, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story MEDIA Photographs. Photo credit should read: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
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Article thumbnail: LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 27: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan departs following his appearance at the Covid Inquiry on November 27, 2023 in London, England. The UK's Mayors of London, Manchester, and Liverpool will be questioned at phase 2 of the Covid-19 Inquiry over decision-making in Downing Street during the pandemic. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 27: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan departs following his appearance at the Covid Inquiry on November 27, 2023 in London, England. The UK's Mayors of London, Manchester, and Liverpool will be questioned at phase 2 of the Covid-19 Inquiry over decision-making in Downing Street during the pandemic. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 19: Secretary of State for the Home Department James Cleverly arrives 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Cabinet meeting in London, United Kingdom on December 19, 2023. (Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 19: Secretary of State for the Home Department James Cleverly arrives 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Cabinet meeting in London, United Kingdom on December 19, 2023. (Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: PA REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2023 File photo dated 14/04/23 - NHS junior doctors take part in a march and rally in the centre of Birmingham, on the final day of the British Medical Association's 96-hour walkout in a dispute over pay. Issue date: Thursday December 21, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story SOCIAL Review2023 Pictures. Photo credit should read: Jacob King/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: PA REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2023 File photo dated 14/04/23 - NHS junior doctors take part in a march and rally in the centre of Birmingham, on the final day of the British Medical Association's 96-hour walkout in a dispute over pay. Issue date: Thursday December 21, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story SOCIAL Review2023 Pictures. Photo credit should read: Jacob King/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: Shoppers walk past shops on Regent Street on the final weekday before Christmas in London on December 22, 2023. Britain's economy unexpectedly shrank in the third quarter and flatlined in the previous three months, official data showed Friday, raising fears of a recession before an election due next year. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: Shoppers walk past shops on Regent Street on the final weekday before Christmas in London on December 22, 2023. Britain's economy unexpectedly shrank in the third quarter and flatlined in the previous three months, official data showed Friday, raising fears of a recession before an election due next year. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Article thumbnail: File photo dated 20/12/2023 of junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside University College Hospital, London, during their continuing dispute over pay. Patient safety will be put at risk in the next round of junior doctor strikes in England, NHS Confederation chief executive Matthew Taylor has warned as he pleaded for ministers and the British Medical Association (BMA) to end the dispute. Junior doctors in England have returned to work after a 72-hour stoppage, but are preparing for the longest strike in NHS history from January 3. Issue date: Saturday December 23, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story INDUSTRY Strikes. Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: File photo dated 20/12/2023 of junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside University College Hospital, London, during their continuing dispute over pay. Patient safety will be put at risk in the next round of junior doctor strikes in England, NHS Confederation chief executive Matthew Taylor has warned as he pleaded for ministers and the British Medical Association (BMA) to end the dispute. Junior doctors in England have returned to work after a 72-hour stoppage, but are preparing for the longest strike in NHS history from January 3. Issue date: Saturday December 23, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story INDUSTRY Strikes. Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: People wearing face masks to protect against Coronavirus / Covid-19 on 10th Febuary 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The usage of face coverings in public places is very much reduced since rates of infection dropped and the fear of the pandemic decreased. Despite this, mask usage remains high amongst some ethnic groups. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: People wearing face masks to protect against Coronavirus / Covid-19 on 10th Febuary 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The usage of face coverings in public places is very much reduced since rates of infection dropped and the fear of the pandemic decreased. Despite this, mask usage remains high amongst some ethnic groups. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: Photo of worried mother taking temperature of her little son who is lying in bed with fever. Mature brown hair mother checking the temperature of her ill 11 years old boy with thermometer on a couch in the living room at home, calling doctor. Sick boy with thermometer laying in bed and mother hand taking temperature. Mother checking temperature of her sick son who has thermometer. Sick child with fever and illness in bed. Mature mother in denim shirt talking on the smartphone with an ambulance worker
Article thumbnail: Photo of worried mother taking temperature of her little son who is lying in bed with fever. Mature brown hair mother checking the temperature of her ill 11 years old boy with thermometer on a couch in the living room at home, calling doctor. Sick boy with thermometer laying in bed and mother hand taking temperature. Mother checking temperature of her sick son who has thermometer. Sick child with fever and illness in bed. Mature mother in denim shirt talking on the smartphone with an ambulance worker
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Article thumbnail: Girl dressed for christmas drinking tea in bed, feeling sick and tired, trying to get better.

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Article thumbnail: Britain's Business and Trade Secretary, and Minister for Women and Equalities Kemi Badenoch attends the State Opening of Parliament at the Houses of Parliament in London on November 7, 2023. (Photo by HANNAH MCKAY / POOL / AFP) (Photo by HANNAH MCKAY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: Britain's Business and Trade Secretary, and Minister for Women and Equalities Kemi Badenoch attends the State Opening of Parliament at the Houses of Parliament in London on November 7, 2023. (Photo by HANNAH MCKAY / POOL / AFP) (Photo by HANNAH MCKAY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: File photo dated 27/11/2019 of school children. Long-awaited transgender guidance for schools in England is expected to be published by the Government on Tuesday, after being delayed from the summer. Reports suggest that the non-statutory guidance will require schools to inform parents if their children say they wish to change their gender identity, with some narrow exemptions. Issue date: Tuesday December 19, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story EDUCATION Gender. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: File photo dated 27/11/2019 of school children. Long-awaited transgender guidance for schools in England is expected to be published by the Government on Tuesday, after being delayed from the summer. Reports suggest that the non-statutory guidance will require schools to inform parents if their children say they wish to change their gender identity, with some narrow exemptions. Issue date: Tuesday December 19, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story EDUCATION Gender. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21 File photo dated 27/11/19 of school children during a class at a primary school, as teaching assistants are taking second jobs or leaving education to work in better-paid roles amid cost-of-living pressures, a report by The National Foundation for Educational Research suggests. PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday September 21, 2023. See PA story EDUCATION Pay. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21 File photo dated 27/11/19 of school children during a class at a primary school, as teaching assistants are taking second jobs or leaving education to work in better-paid roles amid cost-of-living pressures, a report by The National Foundation for Educational Research suggests. PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday September 21, 2023. See PA story EDUCATION Pay. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 15: Students participate in a protest in support of Palestine and for free speech outside of the Columbia University campus on November 15, 2023 in New York City. The university suspended two student organizations, Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voices for Peace, for violating university policies. The tense atmosphere at many college campuses has increased as student groups, activists and others have protested both in support of Israel and Palestine (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 15: Students participate in a protest in support of Palestine and for free speech outside of the Columbia University campus on November 15, 2023 in New York City. The university suspended two student organizations, Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voices for Peace, for violating university policies. The tense atmosphere at many college campuses has increased as student groups, activists and others have protested both in support of Israel and Palestine (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Article thumbnail: People out Christmas shopping in Bond Street, London. Picture date: Thursday December 22, 2022. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: People out Christmas shopping in Bond Street, London. Picture date: Thursday December 22, 2022. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: An engineer works below a Land Rover Defender mild hybrid electric vehicle at the new Jaguar Land Rover electric vehicle test centre in Whitley, Britain, October 23, 2023. REUTERS/Phil Noble
Article thumbnail: An engineer works below a Land Rover Defender mild hybrid electric vehicle at the new Jaguar Land Rover electric vehicle test centre in Whitley, Britain, October 23, 2023. REUTERS/Phil Noble
Article thumbnail: ORIO AL SERIO, ITALY - MAY 08: Passengers board Ryanair airplanes at Caravaggio ??? Bergamo Orio al Serio International Airport (BGY) on May 8, 2022 in Orio al Serio near Bergamo, Italy. Primarily fueled by low-cost carriers such as Ryanair, global airline capacity has climbed back to 83 percent of its level in 2019 prior to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Additionally, a pan-European mask mandate for passengers on airplanes and in airports will be lifted on May 16, as high vaccinations levels help prevent more serious cases of the virus. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: ORIO AL SERIO, ITALY - MAY 08: Passengers board Ryanair airplanes at Caravaggio ??? Bergamo Orio al Serio International Airport (BGY) on May 8, 2022 in Orio al Serio near Bergamo, Italy. Primarily fueled by low-cost carriers such as Ryanair, global airline capacity has climbed back to 83 percent of its level in 2019 prior to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Additionally, a pan-European mask mandate for passengers on airplanes and in airports will be lifted on May 16, as high vaccinations levels help prevent more serious cases of the virus. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)
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Article thumbnail: (FILES) Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, arrives to the Royal Courts of Justice, Britain's High Court in central London on June 6, 2023. A UK judge ruled on December 15, 2023 that Prince Harry was a victim of phone hacking by journalists working for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), and awarded him ??140,600 ($179,600) in damages. The high court judge ruled in favour of the Duke of Sussex in 15 of the 33 sample articles that he submitted as evidence in his lawsuit against MGN, which publishes The Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: (FILES) Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, arrives to the Royal Courts of Justice, Britain's High Court in central London on June 6, 2023. A UK judge ruled on December 15, 2023 that Prince Harry was a victim of phone hacking by journalists working for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), and awarded him ??140,600 ($179,600) in damages. The high court judge ruled in favour of the Duke of Sussex in 15 of the 33 sample articles that he submitted as evidence in his lawsuit against MGN, which publishes The Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: Former Mirror editor Piers Morgan speaks to the media at his home in west London, after a High Court judge ruled that there was "extensive" phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers from 2006 to 2011, "even to some extent" during the Leveson Inquiry into media standards. The Duke of Sussex was awarded ?140,600 after bringing a phone hacking claim against MGN, one of a number of high-profile figures who brought claims against the newspaper publisher over alleged unlawful information gathering at its titles. Picture date: Friday December 15, 2023. PA Photo. Claimants include the Duke of Sussex, former Coronation Street actress Nikki Sanderson, comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman and actor Michael Turner. See PA story COURTS Hacking. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: Former Mirror editor Piers Morgan speaks to the media at his home in west London, after a High Court judge ruled that there was "extensive" phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers from 2006 to 2011, "even to some extent" during the Leveson Inquiry into media standards. The Duke of Sussex was awarded ?140,600 after bringing a phone hacking claim against MGN, one of a number of high-profile figures who brought claims against the newspaper publisher over alleged unlawful information gathering at its titles. Picture date: Friday December 15, 2023. PA Photo. Claimants include the Duke of Sussex, former Coronation Street actress Nikki Sanderson, comedian Paul Whitehouse's ex-wife Fiona Wightman and actor Michael Turner. See PA story COURTS Hacking. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire