The threat of russian interference. And bad table manners Restaurant Owners severely hit by the pandemic react angrily over the number of no show bookings. Labour has apologised and agreed to pay whats been described as substantial, undisclosed damages to seven former employees whod criticised the pa rtys handling of anti semitism complaints. The party has also issued an unreserved apology and paid damages to a journalist who investigated alleged anti semitism in the party for bbc panorama. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley reports. July 2019 Jeremy Corbyn was still labour leader and the party was being accused of not dealing properly with anti semitism allegations. The bbcs panorama aired allegations from whistle blowers, who claimed senior figures close to mr corbyn had interfered in the partys disciplinary process. That provoked a furious reaction from mr corbyns allies, who denied the allegations and called the whistle blowers former disaffected employees with political axes
It is about1 30am. It is about 1 30am. You are up to date on the headlines. Now on bbc news panorama. Tonight, panorama investigates the uks plans to fight coronavirus. It was just this fatalism that were all going to get it and we might as welljust get it over with. We speak to scientists at the heart of the governments response. We mustnt be catastrophists. We could do a lot of damage by raising false alarms. The World Health Organization was calling for urgent action. We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear. The only way you really deal with this virus is by actually stopping transmission. We reveal the Early Warning that hundreds of thousands could die. With the benefit of hindsight, clearly, it would have been beneficial to lock down earlier. How many lives could have been saved if the government had acted sooner . It was a gamble that we had no right to take with the british public. From this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction you must stay at ho
With the benefit of hindsight, clearly, it would have been beneficial to lock down earlier. How many lives could have been saved if the government had acted sooner . It was a gamble that we had no right to take with the british public. From this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction you must stay at home. The start of lockdown four months ago. It wasnt how the government saw this crisis unfolding. The uk had planned for a pandemic and rehearsed its response. This was the starting point for the governments response to coronavirus the 2011 flu pandemic plan. It spells out in detail the likely stages of an outbreak and the measures to deal with it. It draws on Lessons Learned from previous pandemics, including one a hundred years ago. The spanish flu of 1918 killed 200,000 in the uk and millions worldwide. Influenza is still considered one of the most serious peacetime threats to the uk. Weve had sort of five documented pandemics of flu in the last 100 or so ye
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