Quiz of The Week: 10 - 16 April

Political sleaze has dominated the front pages this week as a row about access, influence and lobbying engulfed Westminster.

After David Cameron broke his silence on his role in lobbying for collapsed finance firm Greensill Capital, a host of Whitehall officials became drawn into the scandal.

The government’s adviser on ministers and top officials taking jobs with private firms later warned that there does not appear to be “any boundaries at all” between civil servants and the private sector.

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Elsewhere, experts hit back at Boris Johnson’s claim that lockdown – not the vaccination campaign – was behind the rapid fall in infections in the UK. Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and the lead scientist on the Zoe Covid Symptom Study app, accused the prime minister of “living in a slightly different world”.

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Joe Biden announced the long-awaited date for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, prompting concern among the US’s Nato allies about the timeline for taking boots off the ground.

Protests again rocked the streets of Minneapolis after the shooting of another unarmed black man, Daunte Wright. The killing sparked a string of high-profile resignations and came as the trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-police officer accused of the murder of George Floyd, continues in the city.

Iranian-Israeli tensions rose after a Mossad attack on a key nuclear enrichment site. And anti-lockdown Sweden became the country in Europe with the highest rate of new Covid infections.