China: MPs demand economic policy change MPs have demanded that Britain reconsider its economic relationship with China. Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: “We run to China to buy goods and to invest, it is time for us now to review every single programme here in the UK and around the free …
Read More »Boris Johnson says UK needs to tackle inequality rather than trying to ‘rewrite the past’
Boris Johnson’s race equality commission was today dismissed as a ‘back of fag packet’ attempt to buy off Black Lives Matter protests. Labour’s David Lammy said the PM was not ‘serious’ about change and slammed him for accusing black people of ‘playing the victim’. The backlash came after Mr Johnson …
Read More »BLM activists DEFY Boris Johnson’s calls to abandon protests
Met Police have imposed a curfew on Black Lives Matter activists who are expected to march in London today amid an increasingly rancorous national debate over the proper place of statues with links to Britain’s colonial past – and despite warnings from Boris Johnson not to break social distancing rules. …
Read More »Mail on Sunday launches petition over Winston Churchill statue
The Mail on Sunday today calls on our readers to help block any attempt to remove the statue of Sir Winston Churchill from outside the Houses of Parliament. Our petition urges Boris Johnson to make a public pledge that the monument to Britain’s celebrated wartime leader will never be moved …
Read More »Coronavirus updates as UK death toll passes 1,000
The number of people in the UK who have died after testing positive for COVID-19 coronavirus has risen by 260, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths to 1,019. It’s the biggest daily rise so far in the UK. Yesterday there were 181 new deaths. The latest UK figures were …
Read More »Latest Government updates on coronavirus pandemic
Changes to insolvency rules to allow firms greater flexibility Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharms announced changes to insolvency rules to allow firms “greater flexibility as they face the current crisis”. “It is crucial when the crisis passes, as it will, we are ready to …
Read More »Coronavirus UK: Infection rates are doubling every three days
The home of Welsh rugby union is to be turned into the fourth emergency hospital to deal with an onslaught of coronavirus cases. The Principality Stadium has been offered to NHS Wales as a makeshift field hospital to provide 2,000 extra beds should hospitals in the Cardiff area become overwhelmed. …
Read More »Britain boosts testing for health care workers
By Paul Sandle and Estelle Shirbon | Reuters LONDON – Britain is scaling up coronavirus testing for frontline National Health Service (NHS) staff, with hundreds of tests due to be carried out in coming days and many more next week. The United Kingdom has so far reported 14,579 cases of …
Read More »RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Prince Philip? No, I’m worried about the dorgis
Buckingham Palace has released photos of the Queen holding a ‘virtual’ weekly audience with the Prime Minister. Her Maj is holed up at Windsor Castle for the duration, and is conducting her official business by telephone. Glad to see she’s using a proper landline — which looks as if it …
Read More »Coronavirus UK: Boris Johnson slammed for delaying testing
Fury at Boris Johnson as it emerges No10 only asked on SUNDAY for research labs to lend the government vital coronavirus equipment – despite pledging mass testing a week ago Experts including the WHO say mass testing is crucial to combat coronavirus Downing Street wrote to research labs on Sunday …
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