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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.    …

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will be among the first members of the royal family to leave lockdown and attend a major event when they welcome French President Emmanuel Macron to the UK. Charles, 71, and Camilla, 72, will travel from their home at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, …

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 …

A man identified as a far-right protester has been carried to safety from protestors as animosity was briefly set aside on a day of clashes in London between rival groups and police. Following violent clashes in Trafalgar Square, Black Lives Matter protestors and some counter protestors headed over the River Thames towards Waterloo …

Jobs for help desk staff at London’s new field hospital are being advertised for £13,500 more than the average nurse’s salary.  The NHS Nightingale Hospital is due to open this week at the ExCeL Centre in east London, providing up to 4,000 extra coronavirus patient beds.  But online job adverts …

Prince Harry emailed the Queen and Prince Charles to say he and Meghan Markle were quitting the Royal Family, it has been revealed. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will officially step down as royals next Tuesday, March 31, for a new, financially independent life in the US. It emerged …

The number of coronavirus cases in London has almost quadrupled in a week as the UK’s epidemic continues to spread into all corners of the British Isles. The capital city now has at least 4,637 cases, a jump from the 1,221 reported last Friday, three days before Britons were ordered …

The former IBM factory near Glasgow has become Britain’s second crisis hospital as the building has been offered to NHS Scotland in the battle against coronavirus. It comes as the ExCel Centre in Newham, East London, was kitted out with 4,000 beds and two morgues amid the Covid-19 crisis.  Britain’s …

Rishi Sunak’s multi-billion-pound coronavirus bailout has left hundreds of thousands of self-employed workers ‘close to a cliff edge’. The Chancellor unveiled a scheme handing out cash grants worth up to £2,500 a month, in a boost for taxi drivers, musicians, gig economy workers and freelancers. Many welcomed the move but some have …

Buckingham Palace scrapped a national televised address about coronavirus from the Queen ‘for her own safety’ and to keep the airways clear for politicians and medical professionals, a royal expert has claimed. Last week Her Majesty, 93, issued a statement on the outbreak, saying the UK is ‘entering a period of …