Politics

The Foreign Secretary contradicted the Prime Minister's advice this morning before admitting that he had fudged up.

“His message is confusing and dangerous. You cannot stay alert to something you can’t see."

The PM once said the real hero of Jaws is the mayor – who kept the beach open despite a “gigantic fish eating all his constituents”.

Leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all roundly reject the government's new advice.

The First Minister said she will continue to use the ‘stay at home’ message to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, ‘given the critical point we are at’.

Britons are now set to be asked to ‘Stay alert, control the virus, save lives’.

The net approval in the UK government is now at the lowest level since Opinium began its tracking.

Tanaiste Simon Coveney has urged the UK to seek an extension to its transition period

Helen Whately acknowledged that testing of care home residents and staff needs to be “more joined up”.