Dominic Raab
Downing Street confirms G7 leaders want to know how virus took hold and why it "wasn’t stopped earlier”.
The question on everyone’s lips is: what is the government’s exit strategy?
Social distancing, working from home, business closures, and isolation will continue into May, Dominic Raab announces.
Following today’s Cobra meeting, foreign secretary Dominic Raab gives coronavirus press update. UK’s lockdown is expected to continue for at least three more weeks as the country’s death toll rises by 861 cases in 24 hours .
Keir Starmer cautions UK-wide lockdown is "not affecting people equally".
Foreign secretary told the daily press conference that "we are still not past the peak".
Dominic Raab chairs the daily coronavirus conference as Boris Johnson continues his recovery from the disease at Chequers. It comes as the UK enters its fourth week on lockdown and the number of hospital deaths passes 11,000. Current lockdown measures are set for review by ministers on Thursday.
The home secretary has barely been visible during the coronavirus outbreak.
An unsettling week for Westminster as prime minister Boris Johnson was admitted to intensive care with coronavirus. His admission to hospital left Dominic Raab as de facto PM whilst Johnson recovers but who’s now running the government’s handling of the pandemic as it enters the peak for the UK?For Labour, their search for a new leader is finally over as Keir Starmer won the vote to take over from Jeremy Corbyn. Starmer moved quickly to organise his shadow cabinet, with a few notable admissions and omissions. Do the appointments show how he intends to lead? Labour MP Wes Streeting gives Arj Singh, Rachel Wearmouth and Kate Forrester the news from the PLP’s zoom video chat.
First secretary of state chaired a Cobra meeting on Thursday to discuss the lockdown.