The route out of lockdown – what happens when?

Today, Boris Johnson will take the first step on a ‘cautious – but irreversible’ journey towards bringing the country out of lockdown as he sets out his roadmap for the next few months.  Cautious because of what happened in December last year when a short period of loosening caused a huge spike in cases; irreversible … Read more

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden ‘to confront Facebook this week’ over blocking news

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden ‘to confront Facebook this week’ over blocking news in Australia as Matt Hancock backs making social media giants pay for publishing links to stories Matt Hancock said he is a ‘great admirer’ of Canada and Australia in interview Both are trying to make the social media giant pay publishers for sharing … Read more

Ministers hold top-level meeting TODAY to finalise Boris Johnson’s lockdown roadmap

Boris Johnson and his senior ministers will meet this afternoon to finalise his roapmap for getting the nation out of lockdown before it is unveiled to the public tomorrow. Senior Cabinet figures will join the Prime Minister on a call this afternoon to hammer out the last details of the plan that will shape the … Read more

Matt Hancock’s pub landlord neighbour faces probe by UK’s medical regulator

Matt Hancock’s former neighbour and pub landlord is under investigation by the UK’s medical regulator, it has been revealed. Alex Bourne, who crossed paths with the Health Secretary while running the Cock Inn in Thurlow, West Suffolk, began producing millions of NHS Covid test vials during the pandemic after exchanging a personal WhatsApp messages with Mr Hancock. … Read more

Matt Hancock takes swipe at Sky News presenters taken off air after Kay Burley’s 60th birthday bash

Matt Hancock today took aim at Sky News’ Covid rule-breakers while being quizzed over the lifting of lockdown measures, saying: ‘I know everyone there is keen to get back to having parties’. The Health Secretary made the quip, an obvious reference to presenter Kay Burley’s rule-breaching birthday bash, as he tackled a question over the Government’s … Read more

Matt Hancock takes swipe at Sky News presenters taken off air after Kay Burley’s 60th birthday bash

Matt Hancock today took aim at Sky News’ Covid rule-breakers while being quizzed over the lifting of lockdown measures, saying: ‘I know everyone there is keen to get back to having parties’. The Health Secretary made the quip, an obvious reference to presenter Kay Burley’s rule-breaching birthday bash, as he tackled a question over the Government’s … Read more

Matt Hancock is ‘livid with Tony Blair for pinching his Covid ideas to pass off as his own’

Matt Hancock has ‘stopped talking’ to Tony Blair amid accusations that the former Prime Minister pinched Government anti-Covid ideas to pass them off as his own, it was claimed last night. The Health Secretary is said to be livid after two key proposals allegedly mentioned in private conversations – an initial priority one-jab vaccine policy … Read more