The UK’s ruling Conservative Party saw its lead in polls drop by a few points amid a political battle over the prime minister’s siding with his closest aide, David Cummings. A YouGov survey for The Times published on Wednesday showed that the Conservative’s lead dropped by four points to 44% as compared with the Labour […]
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Boris Johnson has refused to launch an inquiry into Dominic Cummings’ breach of lockdown and instead urged the country to “move on” from the story that refuses to go away. The prime minister will have hoped today’s surprise announcement – that England’s track and trace system to combat coronavirus will start tomorrow (Thursday) – would […]
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Boris Johnson has unveiled the next lifting of lockdown measures but the details have been overshadowed by the continuing furore surrounding his most senior adviser’s breach of lockdown rules. Dominic Cummings claimed “exceptional circumstances” means he behaved “responsibly and legally” and therefore did not breach the rules he helped set, in an extraordinary press conference […]
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Ministers have rallied to support the prime minister’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings as “devastating new claims” emerge about a further breach of the lockdown rules. Boris Johnson’s special advisor (SPAD) has been under fire since news broke last night that Cummings drove 264 miles from London to his parents’ Durham property with his wife and […]
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Boris Johnson has bowed to pressure and will scrap the NHS surcharge for migrant healthcare workers. A Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister asked the Home Office and Department of Health and Social care to remove NHS and care workers from the scheme “as soon as possible”, despite ruling it out only yesterday. “Work […]
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The prime minister has published the government’s plans to ease lockdown restrictions in England, before addressing MPs in parliament to try and clarify the confusion caused. Boris Johnson set out three phases for the forthcoming months and said it was “very good advice for the entire population of the UK”. The leaders of Scotland, Wales […]
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Boris Johnson has unveiled the first steps out of the coronavirus lockdown with a new slogan that had already been rejected by the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK’s ‘stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives’ slogan will still be the key message everywhere across the nation, except in England, […]
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On the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day the Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s letter to the veterans of WW2 described theirs as “the greatest generation of Britons who ever lived”, to whom: “Those of us born after 1945 are acutely conscious of the debt we owe.” Yesterday (Thursday) the deaths of nine Chelsea Pensioners […]
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The nation stood for a minute’s silence at 11am this morning (Tuesday) to honour the key workers who lost their lives in the fight against the coronavirus. Last night the national broadcaster exposed the government’s abject failings to adequately prepare the country for a pandemic, specifically their continued failure to arm key workers with adequate […]
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Government failings to tackle the coronavirus pandemic in February “may have cost thousands of lives”, according to an explosive report in today’s Sunday Times. The paper states Boris Johnson “skipped five Cobra meetings on the virus” while the government ignored scientists’ warnings and early calls for protective equipment, instead sending PPE from the UK depleting […]
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