Officials today defended the accuracy of controversial lateral flow tests as the Government announced everyone in England will be tested twice a week as part of a bold scheme to ease lockdown. Health Minister Edward Argar said the cheap devices – which offer results in as little as 15 minutes – could play a ‘key part’ … Read more
The UK was too slow to ramp up its coronavirus testing capacity and introduce masks, the boss of Britain’s new pandemic-fighting body admitted today. Dr Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer for England, conceded that officials have ‘an awful lot to learn’ after a series of failures early in the crisis. She said the … Read more
Britain’s top scientific advisory committee will be reviewed over fears it holds too much sway over ministers decisions, it was claimed today. The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which has guided No10 through the pandemic, has been accused of using dubious data and scare-mongering the Government into locking the country down or prolonging curbs. … Read more
Labour has slammed Downing Street for spending taxpayers’ money for a ‘propaganda’ documentary about the vaccine roll out. No10 shared a dramatic trailer for the official documentary on Britain’s race for a Covid-19 jab, titled A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story. Set to intense music, the 50-second advert features clips from interviews with … Read more
No10’S 12 ‘WORST-CASE’ OUTCOMES IN THE EVENT OF A NO-DEAL BREXIT Medicine supply shortage; Public disorder and protests; Clashes with EU fishing trawlers; Maritime security enforcement under pressure and ‘at risk’; Reduced food supply; Rising food and fuel prices; Border delays and tariffs leading to disruption of ‘essential services’; Fuel disruption; Reduction of drugs for … Read more
Downing Street’s ‘Union Unit asked for the UK flag to be printed on doses of the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine’ as part of a plan to counter calls for Scottish independence Number 10’s Union Unit was set up to counter calls for Scottish independence It is said to have asked for the Union flag to … Read more
The headline in the Mail on Sunday just about summed it all up: ‘It’s Nut Nut not Nut Nuts!’ Eh? I’m sorry, just run that by me again. Apparently, Boris Johnson’s girlfriend is known disparagingly as ‘Princess Nut Nut’ not ‘Princess Nut Nuts’, writes our political editor. On social media, ‘allies of Dominic Cummings’ use … Read more
There’s ‘absolutely no chance’ the Government’s new 15-minute coronavirus tests are accurate enough to get life back to normal, a leading expert warned today. It emerged last night ministers are set to buy up to 200million of the £5 kits, which are made by US company Innova and give a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ result in … Read more
It was the Halloween horror no one had been expecting: a series of mind-boggling graphs and charts presented at Saturday’s Downing Street press conference that purported to show the Covid-19 pandemic was out of control and a second national lockdown was needed. But do the graphs and charts really support this? ROSS CLARK find outs … Read more
Number 10’s publicly-available coronavirus statistics are ‘disparate’ and mask the true scale of England’s second wave, top scientists have warned. Researchers from University College London warned there are ‘significant gaps in data quality, consistency and availability’ which make tracking the virus’ trajectory near-impossible. They slammed ministers for cherry-picking figures — which are ‘often from disparate sources … Read more