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Cummings on chatty rat/lockdown leak: If Newman is confirmed as the leaker then I will have to fire him, and this will cause some very serious probs with Carrie as

Toby Helm: Asks Dowden Q on Cummings & then to JVT: Should people in authority obey the rules? JVT: I’m quite happy to answer. In my opinion the rules are

NEW: Told that deputy chief whip Stuart Andrew had a Zoom call with new intake today. Told scores of MPs attended. Told MPs critical of No 10’s handling of the

Another scoop via @PippaCrerar. Cummings spotted with his wife in Houghall Woods near family’s Durham home 2 weeks after the first sighting. Fellow walkers said they were taken aback to

Great scoop by @PippaCrerar. Defence of Cummings begins. Went to parents as he & wife ill & needed help w son. Colleagues point to quote from Dep CMO Harries (Apr

It seems to me that we are moving from a very black & white situation (stay home, save lives) to a much greyer picture in the coming weeks in which

ANALYSIS: A month since lockdown, finally the sacrifices made are paying off. Death rates at a plateau, transmission rate below one. Now politicians have to decide what comes next. The

Raab ‘corrects’ Starmer and points out that capacity is at 40,000 and says the govt are working with commercial partners to get to 100k. Starmer: I didn’t need correcting because

Daily data Apr 12 via @IslaGlaister - 3 wks since lockdown. Since then UK recorded 10,277 deaths in hospitals alone + 77,629 cases- Slowdown in growth of deaths continues. 737

Daily data (to April 10) via @IslaGlaister - Dreadful news as daily deaths rise to 980 to 8,958- Slowing growth: Apr 2 to took 3 days for deaths to double.

Daily data to Apr 9 (via @IslaGlaister)- So grim again. Just 2wks ago UK recorded daily total of 100 deaths. Y’day 881. Total 7,978 (up 12%)- France so far only

Daily data (April 8) via @IslaGlaister - So grim. 938 people died. Total deaths 7,097- Growth rate slowed for 6 days now. Days for deaths double 4.4 days (was 2.7