Ex-Olympian gym boss spending £20,000 a month furloughing staff slams Boris Johnson

A gym owner who is spending £20,000 a month furloughing her staff today slammed Boris Johnson for opening pubs before fitness centres.  Former Olympic speed skater Sarah Lindsay owns Roar Fitness transformation gyms which have branches across London.  Appearing on Good Morning Britain today, she revealed it was costing her some £20,000 a month to … Read more

HENRY DEEDES: Dogged by doubt, doom-monger Sages have got Boris Johnson on the run

Boris Johnson opened up the shutters but it was just a crack, a chink, a cigarette paper-slim slit. May as well have kept them slammed shut for all the good it did. Four more months. Another four months of pettifogging rules and restrictions. Our emergence from this year of hell will not so much be … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown in full

Boris Johnson’s 60-page roadmap out of lockdown in full: PM’s four-step plan to lift England’s Covid restrictions By Mark Duell for MailOnline Published: 16:59 GMT, 22 February 2021 | Updated: 17:24 GMT, 22 February 2021 Advertisement The UK Government released a 60-page document today explaining Boris Johnson‘s announcement of a four-stage plan to gradually lift … Read more

PAUL THOMAS on… Boris Johnson’s Covid caution

PAUL THOMAS on… Boris Johnson’s Covid caution By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 01:34 GMT, 23 February 2021 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 23 February 2021 Advertisement To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178. Share or comment on this article:

Boris hints massive furlough could be extended AGAIN to June

Boris Johnson gave a strong hint that the massive furlough scheme could be extended again today as he unveiled an ultra-cautious ‘roadmap’ for easing lockdown.  The PM insisted the government will ‘continue to do whatever it takes to protect jobs’ for the ‘duration of the pandemic’, despite already having spent more than £280billion on the … Read more

STEPHEN GLOVER: Why HAS Boris Johnson been bounced from boosterism to gloomsterism? 

Let’s stand back for a moment from this awful pandemic and consider what has been done to us.  No previous governments in peacetime, and very few in wartime, have curtailed personal freedoms to the extent that ours have been suppressed over the past 11 months. We can’t meet our nearest and dearest. We are obliged … Read more

Boris vows cities will ‘bounce back’ despite working from home rules potentially staying until JUNE

Boris vows cities will ‘bounce back’ despite working from home rules potentially remaining until JUNE under his lockdown roadmap – while the ‘Stay at Home’ slogan will be swapped for ‘Stay Local’ at the end of March PM said working from home should go on until social distancing review ends Roadmap reveals that is expected ‘ahead … Read more

Covid UK: Boris Johnson admits more will die when lockdown lifted

Boris Johnson today said Britain must stomach the fact that more people will die when lockdown ends because vaccines are not perfect. The Prime Minister argued there was ‘no credible route’ to a zero Covid world in the long term and that a third wave would happen whenever restrictions are lifted. Laying out his ‘one-way’ … Read more

Boris Johnson admits coronavirus cases, hospital admissions and deaths WILL go up in UK’s third wave

Boris Johnson today said Britain must stomach the fact that more people will die when lockdown ends because vaccines are not perfect. The Prime Minister argued there was ‘no credible route’ to a zero Covid world in the long term and that a third wave would happen whenever restrictions are lifted. Laying out his ‘one-way’ … Read more

Boris Johnson blasts Facebook over Australian news blockade saying the UK will be ‘robust in defend

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, pictured in Downing Street earlier this month, wants a meeting with Facebook this week Downing Street blasted Facebook today over its continued blockade of Australian news websites, with a threat to take on the social media giant in the UK. No10 today said Britain would be ‘robust in defending free speech … Read more