Amber means Go! Travel industry awaits details on rule change for double-vaxxed Brits July 5, 2021 Travel industry in holding pattern awaiting details on rule change for double-vaxxed Brits
Freedom day: Boris Johnson confirms big bang shedding of Covid restrictions for 19 July July 5, 2021 Boris Johnson has confirmed there will be a big bang shedding of Covid restrictions in England, with mass events set to return without social distancing or face masks from 19 July for so-called freedom day. Johnson said the government will be imposing very few Covid restrictions from now on and will instead rely on people [...]
TfL opposes making masks optional as Boris Johnson looks to forget them July 5, 2021 Londoners may have to wear masks on the tube after 19 July, when Boris Johnson is expected to have abandoned the pandemic-imposed rule. However, different rules for Transport for London (TfL) tubes and national rail trains may confuse travellers, if masks become a thing of the past by the end of July. A spokesperson for [...]
WWF: UK needs to bolster its climate policy ahead of COP26 July 5, 2021 The UK has been urged to slash its environmental footprint by 75 per cent by 2030 by WWF, to bolster its climate policy ahead of COP26. In its latest report titled ‘Thriving Within Our Planetary Means’, the environmental charity warned that the UK has a disproportionately high impact on climate and nature. “The UK is [...]
Cummings: Boris Johnson said it was ‘ludicrous’ he could be PM in 2016 July 5, 2021 Dominic Cummings has claimed Boris Johnson said after the 2016 Brexit referendum that it would be “ludicrous” if he became Prime Minister and that he joined his team in Downing Street to try and direct policy. After David Cameron resigned in 2016, Johnson allegedly said: “Obviously it’s ludicrous me being PM — but no more [...]
‘Rushed’ policy: Those facing financial hardship could get discounts on UK quarantine bills July 5, 2021 Incoming travellers from red list countries may soon be able to apply for discounts or waivers on quarantine costs if they are facing financial hardship, according to reports. UK government lawyers said the Department of Health and Social Care was “currently in the process of refining their scheme to allow persons entering the managed quarantine [...]
Boris Johnson to press ahead with 19 July ‘Big Bang’ freedom day July 5, 2021 Boris Johnson will today announce an end to most coronavirus restrictions in England from 19 July, as the nation prepares to “live with coronavirus”. The Prime Minister will set out how the vaccine programme has allowed the government to move away from legal restrictions on everyday life to a more voluntary approach. New health secretary [...]
Truce in post-Brexit sausage wars only a ‘sticking plaster’, says David Frost July 4, 2021 This week’s three-month truce in the so-called sausage wars between the UK and EU only amounts to a “sticking plaster”, according to defacto Brexit minister Lord David Frost. Frost today maintained the government’s position that the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol is failing to “reflect the balance that was in the Good Friday Agreement” and is “not [...]
Labour unveils new ‘Buy British’ economic policy July 4, 2021 Labour has unveiled a new economic plan that would aim to “make, sell and buy more in Britain” in a bid to counter Boris Johnson’s blue collar Tory message. The new “Buy British” push will be led by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and will come alongside a pitch to make the party as tough on [...]
Jenrick: Face masks will be a ‘matter of personal choice’ after 19 July July 4, 2021 Compulsory face masks are set to be scrapped on 19 July as England sheds its Covid restrictions, according to communities secretary Robert Jenrick. Jenrick said “the state won’t be telling you what to do” after 19 July and that face masks will be a “matter of personal choice”. It comes as the Sunday Times reported [...]