Occupied in lockdown. Boxerjoseph parker tries out his hugh grant love actually impression. Good afternoon. The Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has tested positive for the coronavirus. He says he has mild symptoms and will self isolate in downing street, but will still lead the governments response to the crisis. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, is also having to work from home, after testing positive. Boris johnsons diagnosis came amid growing concern that nhs hospitals may be overwhelmed by coronavirus patients as early as this weekend. Well, a total of 759 people in the uk have now died of the illness thats an increase of 181 in the last 2a hours. Theres particular pressure on hospitals on the outskirts of london, where some Health Bosses have warned that intensive care units face whats being described as a tsunami of demand in the coming days. Globally, the us has overtaken china as the country with the most confirmed cases more than 85,000. And here, police have started issuing f
Showers this weekend. So, theres that low. Weve still got these frontal systems spiralling in an anticlockwise direction close to that low. So, sheltered eastern areas again seeing the best of the drier, sunnier spots. Further north and west, we keep those showers going, some of them heavy, quite frequent. Theyll brush fringes of wales and South West England as well. So, by sunday afternoon, if you keep the sunshine, you get a little more warmth, highest values of 19 20 degrees. Now, as we move out of sunday into monday, that area of low pressure will drift away, and we come under the influence of high from the near continent, and the winds swing round to more of a southerly direction, for a couple of days at least. So, thats going to drive in a little more warmth. The yellow tones to be replaced by warmer rossets as those temperatures are expected for some of us to climb into the low, maybe even mid 20s. We still keep the risk of some showers, particularly across the far north west. M
Amount of time children spend on phones as hes visited a youth club today. The prince asked some of the children how long they spend on their phones, with one girl saying she spends up to 15 hours a day. The future king said grown ups were also guilty of excessive time and of excessive screen time and said weve all got to get better at managing it. He also poked fun at his apparent lack of artistic skills as took part artistic skills as he took part in decorating biscuits, in decorating some biscuits, saying wife is the arty saying that his wife is the arty one. And for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now its back to. Patrick. The reality of what a car crash, a Labour Government would be is now unfolding before our eyes. They are getting away with things in opposition that will rip them apart in government. Labour put a muzzle on deputy leader Angela Rayner for around 42 days while she was fending of
Once a cheat, always a cheat. While stats suggest that infidelity is on the rise, were asking this morning can a leopard really change its spots . Leopard really change its spots . Well, its great to be three nil up at half time, but not for luton last night it really didnt end well. Ill tell you more about that shortly. Willie mullins becomes the first person to train 100 cheltenham winners, and golfer and and if youre a golfer and youre an autograph youre asked for an autograph but paper, do but theres no paper, what do you sign morning. Whilst there will be some fine weather across eastern parts today, elsewhere its going to be a wetter story and then tomorrows looking showery. Then tomorrows looking showery. Ill have the details shortly. Morning to you. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello, and this is breakfast on gb news. Got a question for you this morning. Yes , yes. Yes, yes. yes, yes. Are you a dink . What . Are you a dink . What . It was a
Has Angela Rayner just has Angela Raynerjust lit has Angela Rayner just lit a fuse that will blow the labour party to pieces. Next . Party to pieces. Next . Good evening from the gb newsroom at 9 00. Your top story this hour. The Prime Minister has ruled out holding a general election on the 2nd of may, amid speculation he could choose to go to the polls early. In an interview with itv, rishi sunak was asked if there would be an election on the same day as the local elections, which takes place on the 2nd of may. He replied there wont be a general election on that day. Michael election on that day. Michael gove has named some of the groups to be investigated under a new definition of extremism, which he says will mean the government can express more clearly than ever who poses a risk to britain. Some of the groups included are alleged to have islamist views, with others described as neo nazi. Todays described as neo nazi. Todays new extremism definition will be used to assess whether s