Boris Johnson offers no resolution of channel port closures but promises he is 'working on a solution'

BBC will launch TV and online lessons to help parents and children through lockdown. The whole of the UK was plunged in to another lockdown this week as the Scottish and UK Governments struggle to contain rising numbers of Covid19 cases.

school dinners will have to be thrown out under another UK national lockdown, it has been warned. Schools will be forced to discard food that had been ordered in advance of schools opening back up.

England is facing a third national lockdown that will last at least six weeks, as authorities struggle to stem a surge in COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals around the U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced a tough new stay-at-home order for England that won’t be reviewed until at least mid-February to combat a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus.

coronavirus lockdown.Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed last night (January 4) that England would be entering a new lockdown due to surging coronavirus case numbers and hospital admissions.

lockdown measures.

referendums should only be held “once in a generation”. The Tory leader told the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme: “Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.

direct to your inboxBoris Johnson's father Stanley Johnson has said he's applying for French citizenship.Stanley Johnson told broadcaster RTL on Thursday that he was in the process of "reclaiming" his French identity.It comes as the Brexit transition period ends tonight, December 31, at 11pm and a trade deal has entered law after being given royal ascent by the Queen.He said: "It is not a question of becoming French. If I understand correctly, I am French."My mother was born in France.

SNP, Scottish Labour, Lib Dem and Green MSPs voted to refuse “consent” to the Bill linked to the agreement.

SNP leader at Westminster accused the Tory Prime Minister of “betrayal” on fishing rights, student exchanges and denying the sovereignty of the Scottish people as MPs debated the results of months of tortuous Brexit negotiations.

First Minister will update MSPs on the latest data and plans to combat the sudden spike in infections, which is being blamed on a new strain of Covid which passes more easily from person to person.The Scottish Parliament was meant to be in recess for the Christmas holidays but has been recalled for only the fourth time in its history so members can debate Boris Johnson's Brexit bill.All mainland council areas were placed in tier four of the Scottish Government's lockdown framework as of Boxing

promises the Tories made to the industry appeared to have been broken. Macdonald, who represents the largest quota owners in Scotland, said that while the full details of the deal were to emerge it did not appear to deliver on the industry’s aspirations.

immediately attacked the settlement, saying “there is no deal that will ever make up for what Brexit takes away from us.”On a historic Christmas Eve that will set Scotland and the UK on a different political course from the rest of Europe, Johnson boasted that his “jumbo-sized Canada-style deal” was what the country needs.Johnson said the agreement resolves the European question which has “bedevilled” British politics for generations.But as Sturgeon made plain the end of the Britain’s four

Boris Johnson is leading a Downing Street press conference later after he held crisis talks with ministers as France banned lorries carrying freight from the UK. Some nations around the world imposed a travel ban from the UK following the new mutant strain of coronavirus which Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, admitted is now "out of control".