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Nimra Shahid

Nimra Shahid is a Google News Fellow at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism

September 2020

  • Lord Agnew

    Covid-19 investigations
    Minister relinquishes control of shares in firm given UK government contracts

    Lord Agnew had faced criticism over his shares in Faculty that are worth £90,000
  • Protesters wearing protective face coverings hold placards as they march down Park Lane in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in London on 5 July

    Cummings recruit sacked after suggesting police use 'live rounds' on BLM protesters

    Data specialist appointed after responding to call by Boris Johnson’s chief adviser for ‘weirdos and misfits’
  • A man is led away by police during Black Lives Matter rally in Trafalgar Square, London

    How civil servants' concerns about racism led them to Cummings recruit's tweet

    Call by data specialist to ‘get out the live rounds’ after BLM protest raises questions about Cabinet Office culture

July 2020

  • Boris Johnson wears a face mask while campaigning in his Uxbridge constituency.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK coronavirus live: Johnson signals stricter face mask rules and says people should 'go back to work if they can' – as it happened

    News updates: PM says scientific advice on masks has shifted and moves away from ‘work at home’ message; Sage scientists say stars should be enlisted for public messages as public has lost trust in government

April 2020

  • Trevor Phillips on 'Good Morning Britain' TV show

    Leading Muslims hit out at Trevor Phillips’s role in Covid-19 BAME deaths inquiry

    Objections raised to inclusion of man suspended from Labour over Islamophobia allegations
  • A Pakistan International Airlines plane arriving at the Benazir International airport in Islamabad.

    Lisa Nandy seeks urgent meeting with Foreign Office over Covid-19 repatriations

    Shadow foreign secretary wants to know why thousands remain stranded a fortnight after £75m rescue mission was announced
  • Emily Thornberry.

    MPs call for action over Britons stranded in Pakistan

    Emily Thornberry writes to foreign secretary after Pakistan left off FCO charter flights

March 2020

  • Pakistani workers spray disinfectants on a road in Hyderabad.

    Britons in Pakistan accuse UK government of abandoning them

  • Londoners Dave Wong and Julie McElhinney, who are stranded in Nepal.

    UK urged to help Britons stranded abroad during Covid-19 pandemic

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