Britain’s extravagant PPE spending draws scrutiny
Despite enduring chronic shortages, Britain accounted for 30 per cent of the overall EU-UK spending on PPE.
Global coronavirus cases double in six weeks – WHO
640,000 deaths linked to the virus have been reported to the global health body.
No foreign travel is ‘risk-free’, Downing Street warns
And travel advice “can be changed rapidly if necessary to help stop the spread of the disease”.
UK economy might not return to pre-virus level until 2024
Forecasters EY Item Club, who use a similar economic model to the Treasury, suggest that unemployment will balloon to 9 per cent from 3.9 per cent in that period.
Young BAME men twice as likely to be fined for breaching lockdown rules
A National Police Chiefs’ Council report concluded there has been “disproportionality” in the issuing of fines by police forces in England and Wales.
Australian MP wears bin bag in response to her critics’ ‘sexist garbage’
The stunt follows press condemnation of her wearing stiletto heels, pearl earrings and "tight black pants that show her ankles".
Austerity pushed NHS to the brink before Covid-19 crisis, think-tank says
More than four-in-five English hospitals had “dangerously low” spare capacity on the eve of the crisis.
To tackle international organised crime, there are easier wins closer to home
Much more needs to be done if the UK Government genuinely wants to take its ambition of tackling international organised crime seriously.
Voting for the Tories is a monumental act of British self harm
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe as its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them" - Turkish proverb