Jeremy corbyn is plotting to run for mayor london. And ill be for mayor of london. And ill be heanng for mayor of london. And ill be hearing from the liberal democrats whip wendy democrats chief whip Wendy Chamberlain from their conference in bournemouth and the outspoken tory backbencher Daniel Kawczynski joins me in the studio to dissect another busy week in politics. What does he the plans to cut he make of the plans to cut inheritance tax now before we get through all that, lets go through front pages. Lets through the front pages. Lets start. One story thats start. Theres one story thats dominating papers dominating the papers this morning. Imagine, hs2 morning. As you can imagine, hs2 sunday telegraph goes with axe looms over hs2, over 8 billion cost shock. The bill has gone up by another 8 billion. Can you believe it . The sunday times goes with sunak revives plan to slash inheritance tax. This has slash inheritance tax. This has been waiting in the wings, hasnt it . Been waitin
I can work from home and i think we should if it means that the infection rate remains low. So, i think we need to do everything. I feel sorry for people with parents and children, being stuck at home. In scotland, the first minister Nicola Sturgeon goes further from tomorrow people will not be allowed to visit each others homes. By acting early and substantially, we hope these new measures will be in place for a shorter period than would be the case if we waited longer to act. As plans for fans to return to stadiums are put on hold, sports clubs call for emergency funding. And the coronavirus death toll in the United States has now passed 200,000 the worst hit country in the world. The Prime Minister has further tightened restrictions across england to try to stop the spread of coronavirus. Borisjohnson told mps the country is at a perilous turning point and that now is the time to act. He said the measures are likely to last for the next six months. They include reversing government
British supermarkets say they do have enough stocks for now, despite the chaos, but they are worried about the longer term effects on some supplies. So what is this new variant of the virus, and is it more dangerous, orjust more easily transmitted . Well have the latest medical analysis. Two men have been found guilty of manslaughter after 39 migrants died in the back of a lorry in essex last year. The Prime Minister is chairing a meeting now of the governments Cobra Emergency Committee, as more countries suspend travel links with the uk to stop the spread of the new variant of coronavirus. Borisjohnson will lead a televised briefing from downing street well have that live here on bbc news. India, canada and germany are the latest of about countries are the latest of about a0 countries to stop flights from britain. France has closed its border with the uk for 48 hours with no lorries or ferry passengers allowed in from dover though there are hopes that ban may be reversed soon. Superma
And arise captain sir tom moore the World War Two veteran whos raised more than £30 million for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. Hello and welcome to viewers on bbc one, as we build up todays Coronavirus Briefing from the government, today led by culture secretary, 0liver dowden. We start today with comments from the Prime Minister, who said that there is a growing confidence that the uk will have a test, track and trace operation in place by next month. Borisjohnson said during Prime Ministers questions that the system would be world beating and there will be 25,000 trackers. He said this will help stop the disease from spreading and added that 2a,000 tracers had already been recruited. Lets look at the governments approach to testing and tracing so far. 0n the 12th march, the government moved away from community tests and Contact Tracing because of capacity problems, as ministers focused testing on patients with suspected coronavirus in hospitals. The Health Secretary matt hancock a