Motor neurone disease. In france, there are Police Checks and fines for people breaking strict confinement laws. And after Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe, the british woman jailed for spying in iran, is temporarily released from prison. Because of an outbreak of coronavirus, well be speaking live to her husband richard in the next half hour. The government is being urged to do more to help families and workers affected by the coronavirus outbreak, after announcing billions of pounds of help for companies. The chancellor, rishi sunak, made more than £300 billion in loans available to affected firms. But business groups said action had to be taken to pay workers wages, while labour said people struggling with their rent had been ignored. This morning, the government is expected to announce how they plan to protect millions of people who rent their homes. Lets go through some of the measures unveiled by the chancellor yesterday. He announced a three month mortgage holiday for homeowners. Mr s
Tributes are paid to the man thought to be the youngest in the uk to die from the virus craig ruston was 45 and had motor neurone disease. And the first people are turned away from the eu border under the blocs new travel ban for non eu citizens. All day long well be working to answer as many of your questions as possible. At 11. 30 well be answering your work and money related coronavirus questions with an employment lawyer and personal finance expert. The government is being urged to do more to help families and workers affected by the coronavirus outbreak, after announcing billions of pounds of help for companies. The chancellor, rishi sunak, made more than £300 billion in loans available to affected firms. But business groups said action had to be taken to pay workers wages, while labour said people struggling with their rent had been ignored. This morning, the government is expected to announce how they plan to protect millions of people who rent their homes. Here are the key mea
Incredible guy. The cost of lockdown the number of uk workers on Company Payroll fell by more than 600,000 in two months. The number of people claiming unemployment related benefits more than doubles. Borisjohnson says plans to merge the department for International Development and the Foreign Office will unite aid with diplomacy. But three former Prime Ministers say its a mistake. And new zealand records two new cases of coronavirus. Both had come from the uk, ending 2a days of no new infections. Good afternoon. In half an hour, well bring you todays Coronavirus Press briefing from downing street, which will be led by the Prime Minister. First a look at todays developments. Coronavirus related deaths in the uk have fallen to their lowest number since the week that lockdown was announced, according to the latest weekly data from the office for national statistics. Taken together with similar data from scotland and Northern Ireland the figures also show that there have now been around 6
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are political commentator, jo phillips, the Political Editor of the sunday mirror and people, nigel nelson and john stevens, the deputy Political Editor at the daily mail. Welcome to all of you. Much to discuss. The observer leads with what it calls devastating new claims that the uk Prime Ministers top aide, Dominic Cummings, breached lockdown rules more than once. The paper says downing street are under growing pressure to fire the Senior Adviser. The mirror says Dominic Cummings made two trips from london to durham at the height of the lockdown including one trip when his wife was ill with coronavirus symptoms. But the paper says the Prime Minister still supports his most Senior Adviser. The telegraph says opposition parties are demanding an urgent inquiry in to mr cummings actions and several conservative mps are expected to call on the Senior Adviser to resign tomorrow. The daily mail carr