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“We want them to test the evidence,” and it would be “totally surprising if they all agreed”, he says.

“I didn’t have the knowledge I have now back then,” she responds when asked why mistakes were made.

There has been progress in tackling Covid-19 because the public have supported the lockdown, he says.

First Minister reacts to news that there will be border checks on goods between Northern Ireland and UK mainland.

“It’s got to be a safe one… there’s a balance of risk,” according to Shadow Chancellor.

Football, tennis, horseracing, formula one, cricket, golf, snooker and others are “all set to return to our screens shortly”.

The Chancellor tells today’s press conference that he “can’t protect every single job and every single business.”

But the relaxed restrictions won’t apply to the more than two million medically vulnerable people who are shielded,

He says that with testing capacity currently standing at 161,000 tests a day, the NHS will be able to cope with demand.

Others tended either to raise Cummings directly or else stick to their brief. The Science & Technology Chair found a third way.

He also announced that for the first time since March 18, there have been no deaths related to the virus in Northern Ireland.

The leader of Scotland’s Conservatives makes his call in the wake of Douglas Ross’ resignation as a Scotland Minister earlier today.

“We know that the transmission of the virus is lower outdoors and that it is easier to follow Covid-secure guidelines in open spaces.”

He says the media has misrepresented events, that he’s made mistakes – but that he didn’t do anything wrong.

Elsewhere, the daily number of deaths recorded from Coronavirus fall to below a hundred. It rose above a hundred a day in late March.