Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey accused the Government of “unbelievable incompetence” in handling coronavirus, and issued a plea for cross-party talks to resolve the crisis in social care. In
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Walk-in testing centres will be rolled out near universities in the coming days, Nicola Sturgeon said as she was questioned about coronavirus outbreaks in student halls across the country. The
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The resurgence of coronavirus poses a threat to the UK’s “fragile” economic recovery, Rishi Sunak warned as he confirmed plans for the state to top up the wages of workers
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Nicola Sturgeon has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for urgent four-nation talks to tighten lockdown restrictions to tackle the spread of coronavirus. The First Minister has pointed to
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A coronavirus contact tracing app is launching across England and Wales on Thursday in what the Health Secretary has called “an important step forward” in our fight against the “invisible
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The UK statistics regulator has had to “step in” multiple times during the pandemic to alert Government departments to “transgressions” when ministers have quoted data that is not then quickly
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Boris Johnson warned the UK was at a “perilous turning point” in the battle with coronavirus as he abandoned efforts to get more workers back into offices, ordered wider use
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Boris Johnson has been forced to abandon his drive to get Britons back to the workplace as he prepares to announce new restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus. Pubs,
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Two groups of health experts have written separate letters to the UK’s chief medical officers expressing polarising views on the Government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. One group of doctors
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The UK could be facing 50,000 new Covid-19 cases a day by mid-October, leading to 200 deaths a day a month later if the current rate of infection is not
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