It is “crucial” that people isolate when identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for coronavirus, Downing Street has said...
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A minister has not explicitly ruled out the prospect of the government requiring vaccine passports for people to go to pubs. Business minister Paul Scully told...
The government’s plan to enforce people to show full proof of vaccination to enter nightclubs and other “crowded venues” from the end of...
Downing Street has said the prime minister was already at his country retreat when he was contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to isolate – as Labour...
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have performed a dramatic U-turn and announced they will no longer dodge self-isolation after a fellow minister tested positive...
The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK is not expected to peak until “late August, maybe even early September”, a minister has said...
The timing could hardly be worse. A little more than 24 hours before what he used to call Freedom Day, Boris Johnson is under pressure to self-isolate. The...
People arriving in England from France will still have to quarantine for 10 days on their return – even if they have received both doses of the...
There are no plans to change the sensitivity of the NHS COVID-19 app to reduce the number of people being told to self-isolate. Ministers had indicated that...
The so-called “sausage war” trade dispute between the UK and EU was “not even handbags at dawn”, MPs have been told. Aodhan Connolly...
Boris Johnson has claimed it is “highly probable” the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is over – on the day the UK recorded its highest...
Boris Johnson will argue his “levelling-up” project is a “win-win” and will not mean “robbing Peter to pay Paul” as he sets...
The world’s first Salt and Sugar Reformulation tax could be added to food sold in shops, cafes and canteens in England as part of a new National Food...
Criticism of Home Secretary Priti Patel over efforts to fight racism are “unusual” and “odd”, one of her fellow cabinet ministers has...
A Conservative MP has called on fellow Tories to change their attitude towards people who take the knee as an anti-racism protest. Steve Baker’s...
A Conservative ringleader has told Sky News the government’s attempt to avoid a Tory rebellion on foreign aid cuts is “coming apart at the...
