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BBC Newsnight revealed a ‘reasonable worst-case planning assumption’ on Friday which warned there could be up to 81,000 excess Covid deaths before next March.
Former TalkTalk chief has been paid a total of £175,000 since starting NHS Improvement role, new accounts show. Some board members waive their fee.
Health secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of attempting to "placate Tory MPs" with the latest local lockdown decisions.
“What I care about is how effectively people work," health secretary says, while insisting he does not disagree with Boris Johnson.
Manchester and Yorkshire leaders suggest plan for highly localised lockdowns panders to Tory MPs.
As free school meals are extended into the Christmas holidays, the government has backtracked on more than a dozen of its key policies throughout Covid-19.
The list inevitably features education secretary Gavin Williamson as the government faced the music over its exams fiasco.
The government has been accused of putting "profiteering and corporate greed" before public health.
The health secretary said the government is looking at whether it can approve a new facility.
The government has been accused of attempting to shift blame away from ministers with the scrapping of Public Health England.