Robert Jenrick today resisted calls from the Government’s scientific experts for another national lockdown as he said ‘you can’t have a stop-start country’. The Housing Secretary said it is the Government’s ‘very firm view’ that a nationwide ‘circuit breaker’ shutdown is not the right way forward as he insisted ministers intend to stick to their … Read more
The NHS and the Government’s Treasury are stuck in an argument about the health service’s demands for an extra £10billion to clear a backlog in surgery patients. Sources say bosses at both organisations are ‘at complete loggerheads’ as the NHS tries to return to normality as the UK’s coronavirus pandemic continues to shrink. The Government had … Read more
Sweden recorded its deadliest week this century after 2,505 people died in a seven-day period earlier this month. The country has been the focus of global attention after it adopted a softer approach to combating coronavirus which did not involve imposing a full-scale lockdown. But during the week before Easter – April 6 to 12 – the … Read more
Sweden recorded its deadliest week this century after 2,505 people died in a seven-day period earlier this month. The country has been the focus of global attention after it adopted a softer approach to combating coronavirus which did not involve imposing a full-scale lockdown. But during the week before Easter – April 6 to 12 – the … Read more