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Social life
may lower
the risk of
dementia
Anna PloszajskiBeing 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(^2)
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Chief political correspondentBoris 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 inBrecon 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
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to think about over the summer but it
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“There are a number of colleagues
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