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    Boris Johnson faces a growing revolt in his party over the behaviour of Dominic Cummings, his chief advisor. At least 37 Tory MPs have called for Mr Cummings to quit - including one minister who has resigned. As many as six cabinet ministers are thought to have privately told colleagues Mr Cummings should go. And eight members of Boris Johnson's cabinet have yet to publicly defend or express support for Mr Cummings. The PM's top aide is under pressure to resign after the Mirror revealed he, his wife and child had travelled 260 miles from his London home - while his wife had coronavirus symptoms - to stay in a house owned by his parents in Durham. The government claimed Mr Cummings and his family isolated for 14 days while relatives brought him supplies. But he ad...

    Durham police have begun their investigation into Dominic Cummings’ alleged breaking of lockdown rules, the Guardian and Daily Mirror have learned. A witness has been interviewed by detectives, while the officers also have access to software to track the movement of a vehicle used by the prime minister’s top aide. The developments came after Cummings denied any wrongdoing. It also follows police being asked on Monday to establish the facts by Steve White, the acting police, crime and victims’ commissioner for Durham, who oversees the force. By Monday evening, two detectives from Durham police visited the man who blew the whistle on the trip Cummings made to Barnard Castle, 30 miles from his family’s farm near Durham, as part of a police investigation into alleged b...

    The attorney general, Suella Braverman, is facing calls to resign after she joined the chorus of Downing Street loyalists defending Dominic Cummings’s trip to Durham during lockdown. Lawyers expressed astonishment that Braverman should have joined in what opponents described as an orchestrated political action. Her intervention, it is alleged, undermines the independence of her office as the government’s chief legal adviser and puts her in an impossible position in relation to any subsequent police inquiry. The calls follow Braverman’s tweet on Saturday in which she quoted the full text of the No 10 statement on Boris Johnson’s chief aide in which the prime minister said he had behaved responsibly and legally. She added: Braverman was one of small number of senior ...

    The Government’s hesitance to implement lockdown restrictions saw the number of those infected with coronavirus rise by 1.3 million in nine days, it has been reported. According to an investigation by the Sunday Times’s Insight team, Boris Johnson’s delay in imposing measures saw cases rise from 200,000 on March 14 to 1.5 million on March 23 as the Government deliberated on the timing and scale of the lockdown. The increase in cases during this time is shown in a study by Imperial College London’s pandemic modellers and Oxford University’s department of statistics. The study used backward modelling to calculate that the rate of infection was doubling every three days on March 14 the date it is believed the Government first agreed that lockdown measures would be nec...

To everyone celebrating Eid-al Fitr here in the UK – Eid Mubarak on behalf of the Labour Party. I know this Ramadan has been especially tough for Muslim communities. Families have not been able to see each other; people unable to break fast together, or even go to the mosque for prayers. Yet, I have witnessed incredible resilience. Muslim communities and charities coming together to deliver iftar meals to our frontline NHS staff and doctors. People providing to foodbanks to help the vulnerable and significant donations to many charitable causes. And, I know Eid is one of those joyous occasions were communities all come together to celebrate. Still, as ever, our number one priority remains to keep all of our loved ones and communities safe. As the stark figures show, Covid-19 has dispropo...

    Two-week quarantines will be imposed on new arrivals to the UK from 8 June with a £1,000 fine for anyone who breaches the measures, the home secretary has announced. Priti Patel added during Downing Street's daily briefing that mandatory self-isolation would not apply to people coming from Ireland, medics tackling COVID-19 and seasonal agricultural workers. The measure is aimed at preventing a new wave of coronavirus from overseas. Passengers will have to fill in a form providing their contact and travel information so they can be traced if infections arise. They will also be contacted regularly during the 14 days to ensure their compliance.    

    Britain has suffered the highest proportion of excess deaths across Europe during the coronavirus crisis, figures suggest. Around 55,000 more Britons than normal have died in 2020, up nearly 70 per cent compared to the five-year average by May 8. A quarter of these deaths were not officially attributed to COVID-19 but experts say excess fatalities paint a much clearer picture of the outbreak. This is because they capture victims who may have not been diagnosed, as well as deaths that that resulted from a lack of access to healthcare and suicides. Belgium has been the second worst-hit European country, with 9,000 excess deaths by May 3 – 57 per cent higher than average, according to the Financial Times. Spain's deaths are up 44 per cent compared to the five year a...

    Thousands of locked-down Britons are cramming onto packed beaches to bask in 82F (28C) sunshine on the hottest day of the year so far today, before rain and thunderstorms are set to hit the nation tomorrow. Sunbathers made the most of their new-found freedom following the easing of lockdown restrictions as London's St James's Park saw a high of 79.16F (26.2C) on Tuesday – beating 2020's previous top temperature of 78.8F (26C) set last month. The sunshine is set to continue for most of the UK on Wednesday, with the mercury expected to hit 82F (28C). Pictures of residents and tourists flocking to beaches in Southend, Bournemouth, Margate and Brighton sparked backlash, with one man saying: 'It's madness, it's like everyone's forgotten about coronavirus.' But despite ...

    A decision on whether schools will return next month is likely to be made this week , Downing Street has suggested. The Prime Minister's official spokesman said the Government was keen to resolve the issue "as soon as we can", amid a growing row between ministers and unions over the safety of teachers and children. It came as medical experts said a loss or changed sense of taste or smell would be added to the NHS coronavirus symptoms list, alongside a cough and fever, weeks after experts first raised concerns that Covid-19 cases were being missed. Anyone experiencing any of these coronavirus red flags should now self-isolate for seven days to reduce the risk of spreading the infection. Meanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced that anyone aged over th...