Politics

“We took this stand for you, we will carry on fighting for you," Andy Burnham vowed.

This is the remarkable moment Andy Burnham was shown - in the middle of his press conference - that Greater Manchester would be put into a Tier 3 lockdown on Friday, with just £22 million of support from the government.

To kick it off...NHS staff were polled on whether, in recognition of their efforts to fight Covid 19, they would prefer to be given a badge or a snack box.

It is likely to be little more than a symbolic rejection of the government’s plans. MPs are overwhelmingly likely to overturn the amendment when it returns to the House of Commons.

"Congratulations to Boris Johnson who is now just three wives short of Henry VIII bingo"

Some governments, including the UK, have “made efforts to undermine public trust in public service media, and have limited their appearances on those media, thereby minimising opportunities to be held to account”.

The amendment to continue existing arrangements had been successfully moved in the House of Lords by refugee campaigner and Labour peer Lord Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child on the Kindertransport.

“Future historians won’t need a test and trace operation to find those responsible if we end up in a legal battle in the Supreme Court and an economic crisis that rivals the 1930s depression.”

"You're a nutcase. You're a complete and utter nutcase, and you're dangerous as well," Bryant said - before hanging up.