Misc

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has resigned with immediate effect, just months before the next set of Scottish Parliament elections.

Downing Street has contradicted Home Secretary Priti Patel after she claimed people in England should only exercise alone during the current national lockdown.

Boris Johnson has defended his close relationship with Donald Trump, just hours before the outgoing president is expected to become the first US leader to… Read More »PM defends close relationship with Trump ahead of president’s impeachment vote

The prime minister has acknowledged there are “teething problems” with trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the wake of the Brexit transition period… Read More »PM acknowledges ‘teething problems’ with new GB-NI trade rules

Pressure on the NHS will not start to reduce until March, ministers have been warned – amid fears that new infections could be running at… Read More »New cases may be running at 250,000 a day, and pressure on NHS ‘won’t start easing until March’

A “stubborn number” of people are still refusing to follow the rules despite England entering a third coronavirus lockdown, the chairman of the National Police… Read More »‘Stubborn number’ of people still refusing to follow COVID rules

More than 2.6 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been given to almost 2.3 million people, the health secretary has said, as an NHS boss… Read More »2.6 million jabs given to 2.3 million people – but UK told vaccine ‘not a free pass’ to ignore rules

The government is urging the public to stick to lockdown rules as coronavirus cases soar across the UK.

Demand for hospital services caused by the rampant coronavirus has put ambulance staff under “unprecedented pressure”, with handover delays on a scale not seen before,… Read More »Delays in ambulance handovers ‘on a scale not seen before’

Teachers could be next in line for the second wave of COVID-19 jabs, a member of the group advising on the vaccine rollout has suggested.