WATCH: ‘We would like the whole of the UK to move as one’, says Jenrick
Scotland and Wales have both declined to adopt the Government’s new ‘Stay Alert’ formulation, raising the prospect of a rift in approach.
WATCH: Foster – Northern Ireland will announce roadmap out of lockdown next week
“That will set out how we can take these graduated steps back to what will be a different normality.”
WATCH: Professor attacks Government’s communication of Covid-19 statistics
The public are hungry for genuine information, says Sir David Spiegelhalter, but are instead being fed “a sort of ‘number theatre'”.
WATCH: ‘Every western government… has made mistakes on this’, says Davis
The former Brexit Secretary says that ministers now have the chance to fine-tune sweeping policies imposed at the start of the crisis.
WATCH: Jenrick – “we are passing through the peak” of the care homes crisis
He’s challenged over whether they have been “sacrificed in order to protect the NHS”.
WATCH: To stop the roads clogging up, cycle or walk to work post-lockdown, says Shapps
There will be only a tenth of transport capacity in part of the system post-lockdown if social distancing rules apply, he says.
WATCH: Eustice – any lockdown changes will be done with “the utmost caution”
In other news, people in Wales will be able to exercise more than once a day from Monday and garden centres there will be able to open.
WATCH: “Advance Britannia! Long live the cause of freedom!” Churchill address the nation on the first VE Day.
“Yesterday morning, at 2.41am…General Jodl and Grand Admiral Donitz signed the act of unconditional surrender.”
WATCH: The Prime Minister. “We owe everything we most value to the generation that won the Second World War.”
“We celebrate their achievement. We remember their sacrifice. And we take pride in being their compatriots.”
WATCH: Raab holds the line on the lockdown. No change pending Johnson’s address to the nation on Sunday.
He says that easing measures will be “modest, small, incremental and very carefully monitored.”
WATCH: Jenrick says that 69,463 tests were carried out yesterday
On death rate comparisons with countries abroad, he says that “the time of accurate international comparisons will come in the future”.
WATCH: Johnson goes head to head with Starmer for the first time at PMQs
The Labour leader claims that the UK’s approach to Covid-19 has produced “the highest number” of deaths “in Europe”, and “the second-highest in the world”.
WATCH: Raab – “Dangerous and venal” cyber criminals are trying to exploit the coronavirus crisis
The Foreign Secretary declares: “We are absolutely working to defeat those trying to exploit the situation for their own nefarious ends.”
WATCH: Hancock – The aim is to have contact tracing “up and running by the middle of this month”.
“Test, track and trace allows us to take a more targetted approach to lockdown – while still safely containing the disease.”
WATCH: Gove says that Johnson will set out “a comprehensive plan” to get Britain back to work this week
The Chancellor of the Duchy reports that the number of tests carried out yesterday fell to 76,495.