Manchester bar owner Martin Greenhow has said that businesses like his in Tier 3 are better off ‘sitting on our hands’ and claiming furlough England’s pubs and bars have suffered a ‘mortal blow’ after Boris Johnson imposed brutal Tier 2 and 3 rules on 99% of the country yesterday with one landlord describing the decision as … Read more
Following the chaos and conflict of the Dominic Cummings era, the appointment of Dan Rosenfield as Boris Johnson’s chief of staff is a decisive break with the past. The Prime Minister’s most senior aide, shaven-headed Cummings, 49, never wore a suit and tie, was rude to MPs and officials, and revelled in the notoriety of … Read more
New Year lockdown fear: Boris Johnson threatens national shutdown in January if people don’t obey new Covid tier system PM said Covid threat had ‘not gone away’ despite misery of a second lockdown He said vaccine progress gave ‘hope’ but UK faced ‘hard winter’ of restrictions Decision to put 99% of England in top two … Read more
Boris Johnson was at war with his own MPs last night over virus curbs that could keep 99 per cent of the country in ‘virtual lockdown‘ until spring. The Prime Minister faced a mutiny by up to 70 Tory MPs after unveiling details of tough regional restrictions that will leave Cornwall, the Isle of Wight … Read more
The parents of a 28-year-old woman living in a care home due to a rare degenerative disease have called on Boris Johnson to urgently roll out rapid testing, saying: ‘Our time with her is running out’. Marian and Tom Clancy, from Stanmore, north west London, have been separated from their daughter Charlotte for months due to the … Read more
‘Don’t hug granny if you want her to survive to be hugged again’: Downing Street experts are unanimous that just because it’s not illegal to embrace relatives at Christmas doesn’t mean you should Prof Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance said they want people to see their families But they added they would not encourage people … Read more
How does government decide what Tiers areas are put into? Boris Johnson promised to base Tier allocation on ‘common sense’, and the government’s ‘Winter Plan’ set out a series of metrics to be used. They are: Case detection rates in all age groups; Case detection rates in the over 60s; The rate at which cases are … Read more
How does government decide what Tiers areas are put into? Boris Johnson promised to base Tier allocation on ‘common sense’, and the government’s ‘Winter Plan’ set out a series of metrics to be used. They are: Case detection rates in all age groups; Case detection rates in the over 60s; The rate at which cases are … Read more
Boris Johnson drafts in former Treasury aide Dan Rosenfield who worked for George Osborne as new No10 chief of staff after Dominic Cummings ousting Boris Johnson has appointed Dan Rosenfield as his new Downing St chief of staff The move comes after power struggle that saw Dominic Cummings ousted Mr Rosenfield worked in the Treasury … Read more
Boris Johnson imposed brutal lockdowns on nearly 99 per cent of England today as he unveiled the new Tiers – with Tories raging at ‘authoritarianism’ and threatening to mutiny. Although London and Liverpool were spared the harshest Tier 3 in small glimmers of light, just 700,000 people – one per cent of the population – … Read more