Stratford-on-Avon District Council has mounted a legal challenge against the Government’s ‘arbitrary and irrational’ decision to put it in Tier 3. Its Conservative leader Tony Jefferson today sent a Judicial Review pre-action letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, urging him to retract the allocation. He said the decision to impose the harshest restrictions when the national … Read more
Leicester hasn’t yet been able to start mass testing for Covid because of a logistical blunder that has meant 10,000 rapid swab kits local officials received are currently unusable, it was claimed today. Matt Hancock promised that areas put into Tier Three local lockdowns would get access to rapid Covid testing when the national lockdown … Read more
An aviation tycoon worth £200million has lost a legal fight against coronavirus lockdown rules after branding the measures the ‘most extreme restrictions on fundamental freedoms in the modern era’. Simon Dolan, 51, was pursuing a claim against Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson over the restrictions. The businessman’s lawyers argued the rules … Read more
And so came the tiers. There was no actual blubbing in the chamber when Matt Hancock announced his post-lockdown restrictions yesterday. Some Tory MPs looked jolly close to turning on the waterworks though. Blimey, were they cross! The Health Secretary had just announced that all of them – barring members for Cornwall, the Isles of … Read more
Arsenal will be among the first football clubs whose fans will be allowed to return to stadiums for matches next week, but Manchester United will miss out, following the announcement of a new regional tier system today. Liverpool will also be in the first wave of top tier matches allowed to admit spectators. Football and … Read more
Matt Hancock‘s neighbour won a contract to supply tens of millions of Covid tests to the NHS after sending him a personal WhatsApp message – despite his company having no previous experience of making medical supplies. Alex Bourne got to know the Health Secretary while landlord of the Cock Inn in Thurlow, West Suffolk, a few … Read more
Tier checker CRASHES moments after going live: Government postcode tool suffers ‘technical difficulties’ as nation desperately tries to find out what level of restrictions their local area is under Government postcode checker helps people find out which tier area is placed in But it crashed today just minutes after going live leaving Britons frustrated Message … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Arsenal will be allowed 2,000 fans at next week’s Europa League game after London was placed in Tier 2 of regional restrictions… but Old Trafford will remain SHUT for PSG showdown with Manchester placed in Tier 3 Matt Hancock revealed today which tier each area of England has been put in Government’s regional … Read more
Rishi Sunak delivered a formidable speech in the Commons yesterday. The Chancellor’s calm manner and mastery of detail filled me with confidence. His message was that, although Britain is in an ‘economic emergency’, the Government is prepared to spend lots of money we don’t have in order to get us out of it. Better times … Read more
Keener than a terrier on two breakfasts, Jeremy Hunt got stuck into Matt Hancock: HENRY DEEDES watches another confrontation between the Health Secretary and his predecessor By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 24 November 2020 | Updated: 23:56 GMT, 24 November 2020 Borg v McEnroe; Prost v Senna. Coe vs Ovett. … Read more