WATCH: Johnson – ‘I hope very much that people will behave responsibly’

The Prime Minister is grilled by LBC on why some businesses are being allowed to re-open ahead of others.

Chris Whitehouse: Faith leaders have a moral duty to be better prepared for the next pandemic

Never again must the doors of our nation’s churches close for fifteen weeks straight. Religion is more than ritual – it is life itself.

Maria Higson: The Coronavirus has already changed the NHS. Now it can be transformed for the better. Here’s how.

Service innovation has suddenly become possible at break-neck speed. We need to shift further the mindset of politicians, professionals, and the public.

WATCH: Hancock – ‘I’m sure… that we made the right decisions at the right time’

The Health Secretary disagrees with the suggestion of a SAGE scientist that the Government did not implement lockdown early enough.

WATCH: Health Secretary says demonstrations are ‘undoubtedly a risk’ for spreading Covid-19

“The virus itself doesn’t discriminate, and gathering in large groups is temporarily against the rules precisely because it increases the risk…”

Colin Hart: As we start to ease lockdown, it’s time to lift the ban on weddings

The big parties can wait until we have seen off Covid-19. But the marriages themselves cannot – and they can be performed safely.

Tim Clark: Ministers must take the time to find a safe way to reopen schools

Not only would doing otherwise expose teachers and pupils to unacceptable risk, but the political backlash could be immense.

Ryan Henson: Overseas aid will play a vital role in defending Britain through the age of pandemics

We must stand shoulder to shoulder with those who need us most. Not just because it is in our national interest, but because it is the right thing to do.

Henry Hill: Sunak squares up to the SNP over the future of furlough

Also: Welsh Government abandons separate testing app to join UK-run scheme; Gove tries to downplay the Irish Sea border.

Judy Terry: Where have the Health and Wellbeing Boards been during the pandemic?

These bodies are supposed to ensure the needs of patients are being met. Yet this work is being neglected.

Daniel Rossall Valentine: Banning menthol cigarettes is nothing to celebrate

The ban on flavoured tobacco is a sign of a public health lobby that is too focused on coercive regulation and inexperienced at debate and persuasion.

WATCH: Prime Minister brands Labour leader ‘ignorant of the facts’ as he’s harried on care homes at PMQs

The Prime Minister counters that the advice was changed, referrals fell, and that deaths in care settings have fallen.

Andy Street: Easing the lockdown means trusting the people

Here in the West Midlands we are seeing construction resuming, the housing market restarting and our all-important car industry reviving.

Fay Jones: Welsh voters deserve better than the First Minister’s synthetic outrage and pointless one-upmanship

I won’t let fears of being branded ‘anti-devolution’ stop me calling out Drakeford’s deeply counterproductive conduct.

Covid-19 is a slender excuse for Johnson’s u-turn on lifestyle freedom

It isn’t justification enough that obesity exacerbates the virus if any realistic timeline for slimming the nation is longer than the pandemic.