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Showing two fingers to ‘the science’? BoJo gives green light to lockdown lifting despite NO CHANGE in coronavirus threat level
The UK government has been accused of reneging on its promise to always be led “by the science,” after its signaled lockdown measures will be relaxed – even though coronavirus threat levels will not be lowered.
May 29, 2020 18:21
Irish PM Varadkar says govt may need to prepare for ‘no-trade deal’ Brexit
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said “very little progress” has been made in Brexit trade talks and that it may be necessary to step up planning for a “no-trade deal” scenario.
May 29, 2020 17:00
Rush to bury Cummings story? UK govt slammed as Covid-19 contact tracing system won’t be ‘fully operational’ till end of June
England’s contact tracing system – billed last week as “world class” by PM Boris Johnson – will not be “fully operational” until the end of June, the head of the service has reportedly told UK MPs, prompting ridicule from Britons.
May 28, 2020 17:02
‘A terrible indictment on society’: Man who lost father to Covid-19 amid outbreak at Scottish nursing home shares story with RT
The son of a Covid-19 victim in Scotland has told RT how the government and senior staff failed to protect the residents at nursing homes hit by the deadly virus. Authorities have promised an inquiry into the crisis.
May 28, 2020 13:28

Showing two fingers to ‘the science’? BoJo gives green light to lockdown lifting despite NO CHANGE in coronavirus threat level
The UK government has been accused of reneging on its promise to always be led “by the science,” after its signaled lockdown measures will be relaxed – even though coronavirus threat levels will not be lowered.
May 29, 2020 18:21
Irish PM Varadkar says govt may need to prepare for ‘no-trade deal’ Brexit
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said “very little progress” has been made in Brexit trade talks and that it may be necessary to step up planning for a “no-trade deal” scenario.
May 29, 2020 17:00
‘Told the truth’: Piers Morgan blasts ‘pathetic’ BBC for throwing Newsnight presenter ‘to the wolves’ after Cummings monologue
TV presenter Piers Morgan has lashed out at the BBC after the public service broadcaster rapped their Newsnight host Emily Maitlis for her stinging Dominic Cummings intro – claiming that she was only telling “the truth.”
May 29, 2020 11:55
Rush to bury Cummings story? UK govt slammed as Covid-19 contact tracing system won’t be ‘fully operational’ till end of June
England’s contact tracing system – billed last week as “world class” by PM Boris Johnson – will not be “fully operational” until the end of June, the head of the service has reportedly told UK MPs, prompting ridicule from Britons.
May 28, 2020 17:02
‘A terrible indictment on society’: Man who lost father to Covid-19 amid outbreak at Scottish nursing home shares story with RT
The son of a Covid-19 victim in Scotland has told RT how the government and senior staff failed to protect the residents at nursing homes hit by the deadly virus. Authorities have promised an inquiry into the crisis.
May 28, 2020 13:28
Cummings made ‘minor breach’ of Covid-19 lockdown rules, but no action will be taken – UK police
UK police have determined that there was a “minor breach” of Covid-19 regulations by PM Boris Johnson’s top aide Dominic Cummings, but that no retrospective action will be taken against him.
May 28, 2020 13:13
‘Unmitigated disaster’: Fury as UK suffers highest rate of excess deaths per million in the world during Covid-19 crisis
The UK has suffered the highest rate of excess deaths per million in the world among countries with comparable data during the Covid-19 pandemic, provoking outrage from Britons still reeling from the Cummings scandal.
May 28, 2020 11:36
Come on! Dominic Cummings’ name didn’t trend on Twitter… because of anti-porn filters
He may have remained relentlessly in the news for the past week, but Boris Johnson’s embattled chief adviser Dominic Cummings still hasn’t managed to trend on Twitter, despite being the subject of ample social media trolling.
May 27, 2020 16:58
‘Inaccurate, divisive’: British TV show roasted after using gender of world leaders to explain contrasting Covid-19 death tolls
A British morning television show suffered a backlash from viewers after using unfair comparisons to suggest countries with female leaders have done a better job than their male counterparts to suppress coronavirus deaths.
May 27, 2020 15:29
UK health regulator BANS labs from processing coronavirus home testing kits
Health authorities in the UK have banned laboratories from processing samples taken from coronavirus antibody home testing kits sold by Superdrug and online pharmacies amid concerns over “unreliable results.”
May 27, 2020 12:29
‘It’s them and us’: UK public fumes over minister’s plea to ‘move on’ from Cummings saga
A UK minister’s plea for people to “move on” from the Dominic Cummings lockdown violation controversy has been slammed, with many Britons saying the issue shows the government’s contempt for ordinary people.
May 27, 2020 12:02
59% of Britons say PM’s adviser Cummings MUST GO after lockdown violations, as pressure builds on Johnson
A new opinion poll shows a sizeable majority of the British public think Dominic Cummings – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s special adviser – should be ditched, following revelations he broke coronavirus lockdown rules.
May 26, 2020 16:09

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