Coronavirus UK: London saved from Tier Two lockdown…for now

Boris Johnson stepped back from immediately placing the capital into the second Very High risk group as he outlined the nation’s new triple-tiered lockdown system this afternoon LondonĀ is on the brink of a new lockdown with the city’s nine million residents banned from seeing their friends and family indoors within days. Boris Johnson stepped back … Read more

London faces Tier Two lockdown: Boris Johnson to bring in ‘ban on meeting others indoors’

London‘s nine million-strong population is to be banned by the government from seeing their friends and family indoors – as Boris Johnson prepares to stop households mixing, while still keeping pubs, restaurants and gyms open. The capital is expected to be hurled into Tier Two of the new restrictions drawn up by the Tories to … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Northern fury at Boris Johnson’s Tier Three lockdown

SAGE experts met today to demand Boris Johnson gets even tougher by imposing a nationwide ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown – despite the PM already facing a backlash from the North over plans to shut pubs and restaurants in hotspots. Scientists are warning that coronavirus has a ‘gun to the head’ of the country as daily cases … Read more

Boris Johnson will IGNORE critics and plunge 10 million northerners into tough ‘Tier Three’ lockdown

Ten million people living in the North of England are to be hit with tougher lockdown restrictions – including the closure of pubs and restaurants – from next week in a bid to bring spiralling coronavirus infection figures under control. In a move which could spark outrage among leaders in the impacted cities and a … Read more