Politics

It comes as the UK government announced a further 1,725 more coronavirus deaths have been recorded. This is the second highest daily death total on this measure.

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack responded by saying “the Prime Minister is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and wherever he needs to go he will go.”

If Johnson’s stewardship of this crisis is comparable to any of Britain’s modern military engagements it is surely the Battle of the Somme, wherein wave upon wave of troops were sent to their inevitable demise.

The UK has passed 100,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths. Did it have to be this way?

As UK Covid fatalities surpass 100,000 we take a look at New Zealand, where the death toll is 25.

"You didn't lock down. You didn't close borders. You didn't protect care homes. You didn't deliver on test & trace," Rachel Clarke said.

Doctors' union BMA has projected the number of deaths on to its headquarters with the message “we will never forget”.

The environment bill, a centrepiece of Boris Johnson's 'green industrial revolution', has been put off until autumn at the earliest.

Angela Rayner told Sunak she was “happy to brief you on the inequality and sexism women face at work.”