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UK lawmakers grumble but renew sweeping govt COVID-19 powers

by Associated Press
| September 30, 2020 11:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers voted Wednesday to renew the government’s sweeping powers to impose emergency restrictions to curb the coronavirus pandemic, though many slammed the way Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative administration has used them.

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