United Kingdom
UK citizens will be able to travel to Spain without facing quarantine, Spain's foreign minister has announced.
Left wing group accuses PM of being willing to "exploit" economic crisis to reshape UK ahead of "deregulatory" US trade deal.
The decision, announced by Michael Gove, comes amid fears of the economic impact of coronavirus.
Having an accurate consensus on R will be crucial in the weeks to come, Kit Yates writes.
The political implications of a no deal outcome threaten to be every bit as significant as its economic fallout, Anand Menon and Jonathan Portes write.
Remarks came as Downing Street refused to say if the prime minister personally thought the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was abhorrent.
The new measures – which apply to all but a handful of travellers – are in place from Monday, June 8.
Not a great week for being 'guided by the science'.
The UK has hit the grim milestone of 40,000 deaths from coronavirus, one of the highest in the world. Despite warnings and being behind the likes of Italy and Spain when the virus struck, the UK’s authorities have overseen a catastrophic response to the coronavirus pandemic. Although 40,000 people have died and are confirmed with having had the virus, many more are thought to be attributable in the UK.
Health secretary told current figures are neither "complete" nor "comprehensible".