Covid UK: Lockdown ease may SLOW if cases spike, says SAGE adviser

Dr Mike Tildesley warned the Government may delay lockdown easing plans Boris Johnson may have to delay plans to ease lockdown restrictions if coronavirus cases start to spike, a Sage adviser warned today. Dr Mike Tildesley, who was behind one of the gloomy forecasts that warned tens of thousands of Britons could die if No10 … Read more

Covid UK: Lockdown ease may SLOW if cases spike, says SAGE adviser

Dr Mike Tildesley warned the Government may delay lockdown easing plans Boris Johnson may have to delay plans to ease lockdown restrictions if coronavirus cases start to spike, a Sage adviser warned today. Dr Mike Tildesley, who was behind one of the gloomy forecasts that warned tens of thousands of Britons could die if No10 … Read more

Biden COVID adviser can’t explain why closed California isn’t doing better than open Florida

White House coronavirus adviser Andy Slavitt appeared stumped on Wednesday when asked to explain why California and Florida, which had very different methods of combating COVID-19, have similar trends in COVID-19 cases and deaths. Slavitt told MSNBC that the virus was still very unpredictable and ‘a little bit beyond our explanation.’ In California, a little more … Read more

Biden COVID adviser can’t explain why closed California isn’t doing better than open Florida

White House coronavirus adviser Andy Slavitt appeared stumped on Wednesday when asked to explain why California and Florida, which had very different methods of combating COVID-19, have similar trends in COVID-19 cases and deaths. Slavitt told MSNBC that the virus was still very unpredictable and ‘a little bit beyond our explanation.’ In California, a little more … Read more

Boris Johnson makes top Brexit adviser Lord Frost a Cabinet minister

Boris Johnson makes his top Brexit adviser Lord Frost a Cabinet minister – giving him Michael Gove’s job overseeing future relations with the EU Lord Frost is to become a minister in the Cabinet Office, Downing St said Comes weeks after PM axed plans to make him the National Security Adviser Frost is ex-ambassador to … Read more

Boris Johnson makes top Brexit adviser Lord Frost a Cabinet minister

Boris Johnson makes his top Brexit adviser Lord Frost a Cabinet minister – giving him Michael Gove’s job overseeing future relations with the EU Lord Frost is to become a minister in the Cabinet Office, Downing St said Comes weeks after PM axed plans to make him the National Security Adviser Frost is ex-ambassador to … Read more

Number 10’s race adviser tries to quit over ‘unbearable tension’ within government

Number 10’s race adviser tries to quit over ‘unbearable tension’ within government as he slams Tory politics ‘steeped in division’ – before withdrawing his resignation after talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi Number 10’s adviser on ethnic minorities Samuel Kasumu retracted resignation Mr Kasumu reportedly said tensions in Government were at times ‘unbearable’ But retracted letter … Read more

Can an estate agent hold back my house offer if I don’t use their firm’s finance adviser?

I am searching for a new home in Kent, where I live. I recently saw a terraced house that I liked on Rightmove and went for a viewing. Afterwards, I decided to make an offer. I approached the vendor’s estate agent, Miles & Barr. When I told them my offer, the agent I spoke to … Read more

Covid UK: SAGE adviser says ‘Tier 5’ may be needed to suppress virus

A SAGE adviser today hinted a third national lockdown including mass school closures may be required to suppress Covid as he insisted ‘keeping people apart’ stops the virus from spreading.  Professor Sir Mark Walport claimed the ‘mutant’ strain of coronavirus was transmitting rapidly among children, with those aged between 12 and 16 seven times more … Read more

Covid UK: SAGE adviser says ‘Tier 5’ may be needed to suppress virus

A SAGE adviser today hinted a third national lockdown including mass school closures may be required to suppress Covid as he insisted ‘keeping people apart’ stops the virus from spreading.  Professor Sir Mark Walport claimed the ‘mutant’ strain of coronavirus was transmitting rapidly among children, with those aged between 12 and 16 seven times more … Read more