The Guardian - 03.08.2019

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Social life

may lower

the risk of

dementia

Anna Ploszajski

Being socially active in your 50s and

60s may help lower the risk of devel-

oping dementia in later life, a study

has found.

Researchers studied data that

tracked more than 10,000 people

from 1985 to 2013. The participants

answered a questionnaire every fi ve

years about the frequency of their

social contact with friends and rel-

atives. They were also subject to

cognitive testing, and electronic

health records were searched for

dementia diagnoses.

The results – published in the jour-

nal Plos Medicine – showed that seeing

friends almost daily at aged

60 was associated with a

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Boris Johnson faced a grave threat to

his control of parliament last night

when he was warned that Tory rebels

could cross the fl oor of the Commons

to foil Brexit after a byelection reduced

his working majority to just one MP.

The Liberal Democrat candidate,

Jane Dodds , won a crucial vote in

Brecon and Radnorshire yesterday by

a margin of 1,425 , overturning the Tor y

majority of more than 8,000.

The result prompted immediate

recriminations across the party. No-

deal sceptics warned about the rapidly

growing threat the government could

face from the reinvigorated Lib Dems,

while insiders blamed Theresa May’s

administration for choosing a candi-

date, Chris Davies, who had already

been ousted for expenses fraud.

One of the most prominent Con-

servative supporters of a second

referendum told the Guardian yester-

day that he was actively considering

defecting to the Lib Dems or sitting as

an independent, a move that would

leave Johnson at the helm of a minor-

ity government.

Dr Phillip Lee, a former justice min-

ister who fi rst suggested he could quit

the party in his own podcast, On the

House , told the Guardian he was not

Tory rebels threaten PM

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▲ The Lib Dem leader, Jo Swinson, right, and the party’s new MP, Jane Dodds, celebrate victory over the Tories in Brecon PHOTOGRAPH: BEN BIRCHALL/PA

alone among colleagues considering

defecting or resigning if the govern-

ment pursued no deal. “I have things

to think about over the summer but it

is not just me,” he said.

“There are a number of colleagues

who are spending the summer refl ect-

ing on what is the right way for them

to confront this no-deal scenario.

Of course, it is diffi cult for all of us

because we joined the Con-

servative party, but it has

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