The Chancellor today addressed the country’s burning questions as he discussed his fresh financial package in a Twitter Q and A session. Rishi Sunak turned on the public spending taps again last week when he announced an emergency bailout for businesses and the self-employed that will cost up to £22billion. But today he was grilled by … Read more
Britain’s second coronavirus wave is already on track to surpass the Government’s ‘worst case scenario’ projection of 85,000 deaths, concerning data suggests. In a newly-published leaked paper that was circulated through Downing Street over summer, SAGE – the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies – warned that daily Covid-19 fatalities could rise to as many as … Read more
Britain’s second coronavirus wave is already on track to surpass the Government’s ‘worst case scenario’ projection of 85,000 deaths, concerning data suggests. In a newly-published leaked paper that was circulated through Downing Street over summer, SAGE – the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies – warned that daily Covid-19 fatalities could rise to as many as … Read more
WHICH AREAS WILL FACE NEW TIER TWO RULES? East Riding of Yorkshire Hull North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire Dudley Staffordshire Telford and the Wrekin Amber Valley Bolsover Derbyshire Dales Derby City South Derbyshire High Peak, Derbyshire Charnwood Luton Oxford City Ministers today dragged another 16 authorities into Tier Two, as Britain creeps another step closer … Read more
Where’s next for Tier Three? 6MILLION people living in the West Midlands, North East and West Yorkshire could be dragged into toughest lockdown within days to contain Covid-19 Means 14million people across England could be living under toughest Covid-controlling curbs by weekend In the West Midlands, Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton at … Read more
A coronavirus lockdown row erupted today after No10‘s scientific advisers called for another national shutdown to curtail Britain’s Covid-19 resurgence amid projections that the second wave could end up being deadlier than the first because it will last for longer. Top experts questioned why the ‘incredibly harmful intervention’ was being considered when Britain successfully squashed its … Read more
Number 10‘s publicly-available coronavirus statistics are ‘disparate’ and mask the true scale of England’s second wave, top scientists have warned. Researchers from University College London warned there are ‘significant gaps in data quality, consistency and availability’ which make tracking the virus’ trajectory near-impossible. They slammed ministers for cherry-picking figures — which are ‘often from disparate sources … Read more
Boris Johnson was facing a growing north and south revolt over lockdown today as some of his newest MPs demanded he produce an exit strategy for some of the areas worst hit by the second wave of the pandemic. In the biggest Tory challenge to his leadership since the general election a group of 54 … Read more
West Yorkshire may become the next part of England to move into the strictest Tier Three lockdown, with council leaders demanding tougher action to curb spiralling coronavirus cases and hospital admissions. Local officials held crunch talks with senior ministers yesterday to discuss the ‘next steps’ in tackling Covid-19 in West Yorkshire, with further behind-closed-doors meetings … Read more
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson says he could support city being placed into a new Tier FOUR ‘if necessary’ to brings down coronavirus cases faster He said he is not opposed to the introduction of ‘tougher measures if necessary’ Mr Anderson lost his own brother Bill, 61, to Covid less than a fortnight ago Downing Street … Read more