Richard Thomson, SNP MP for Gordon, says no-one knows why Scotland has seen most of the U.K.'s omicron variant infections, with community transmission particularly concerning. On the Cambo oil field in the North Sea, Thomson tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Yuan Potts that oil and gas are going to be an important part of the energy mix for some time to come.

Plus Bloomberg Opinion columnist Therese Raphael discusses the Covid vaccine booster rollout and Keir Starmer's shadow cabinet reshuffle.

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