As the UK observed a minute's silence on #WorkersMemorialDay a hospital worker shockingly faced a disciplinary hearing after asking for personal protective equipment to keep himself and his family safe. The London Economic INVESTIGATION finds PPE still a major issue for outsourced health staff working for private firms:
They also show a gaping disparity with the daily death figures being released by the government, confirming suspicions that the death toll from coronavirus is far higher than feared.
Elizabeth Truss has penned a joint letter with her counterparts in Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.
The news comes as over 140,000 people register their desire to retain EU citizenship on a specially designed website.
Not content with ‘flattening the curve’ or mitigating the spread of the disease, Jacinda Ardern moved to completely clear New Zealand of coronavirus.
New research by payments service bePayd said money needs to flow faster to cover the £212.8bn in unpaid invoices due to SMEs.
With the death toll mounting, PPE shortages, ongoing lockdown the Sage scandal and a vaccine a long way off, Boris Johnson has his work cut out.
Stonegate Pubs, which owns Slug & Lettuce, Walkabout and Yates, has used government schemes despite being based in the Cayman Islands.
The UK's official tally of coronavirus-related deaths passed 20,000 this weekend - a figure the chief scientist once said would represent a "good outcome".