Coronavirus cases need to plummet before lockdown can be eased, Boris Johnson warned

direct to your inboxBoris Johnson will hold a Downing Street press conference later today, No 10 confirmed.The Prime Minister will update the nation on the latest with coronavirus on the first day of the lockdown roadmap.The briefing will commence at an earlier than usual time, at 4pm.Step one of the roadmap back to normal life saw all schoolchildren in England return to the classroom on March 8.Secondary pupils will be tested twice a week and be told to wear face masks in the classroom and

It's Kenneth Branagh as you've never seen him before. For an actor who has donned insane mustaches (as detective Hercule Poirot) and a wide array of Shakespearean costumes, the first still of him as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Michael Winterbottom's TV drama This Sceptred Isle is perhaps Branagh at his most unrecognizable.

60-year-old actor will play the British Prime Minister in the new Sky Atlantic drama.The five-part series will chart the events surrounding the Prime Minister, the government, and the country in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic.Kenneth’s casting as Bojo was first announced last month, and now the first look image of him as the PM shows his utter transformation into the 56-year-old politician.Kenneth has swapped his neatly trimmed brown hair for Boris’ trademark wild blonde locks

Sky has released a first-look image of Kenneth Branagh as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in its upcoming Michael Winterbottom series This Sceptred Isle.

Manori Ravindran International EditorSky has unveiled the first look at Kenneth Branagh playing U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the forthcoming drama “This Sceptred Isle.”Production has begun on the Fremantle-produced drama, which charts the events surrounding Johnson, his government, and the country in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic.The Sky Original drama will air on Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW TV in 2022.

Boris Johnson has said he is “very optimistic” that he will be able to fully remove all of England’s coronavirus restrictions on June 21 but he added a note of warning as he said “nothing can be guaranteed”.

The government is this afternoon unveiling its roadmap out of the third national lockdown - in the hope of returning life close to normality in June.Its four-step plan, beginning with all school and college pupils returning on March 8, aims to gradually reopen society and the economy over the next four months, although it stresses every stage will be dependent on what the data on vaccinations, hospitalisations, infection rates and deaths say.Ultimately it aims to scrap all legal limitations to

direct to your inboxThe Prime Minister has unveiled his long-awaited roadmap out of lockdown in England. Boris Johnson appeared before MPs in the House of Commons on Monday (February 22) ahead of an evening Downing Street press conference.

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direct to your inboxBoris Johnson led a press briefing this evening to provide an update on the latest with coronavirus pandemic.

direct to your inboxBoris Johnson will lead a Downing Street press conference later this afternoon, No 10 has confirmed.The Prime Minister will update the nation on the latest developments with coronavirus.It will take place at 5pm, however it is currently unclear who he will be joined by.Mr Johnson faced Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in the weekly Prime Minister's Questions earlier this afternoon.He told the Commons that we will have to “get used” to the idea of re-vaccinating in the autumn as

coronavirus variants will likely mean booster vaccinations are needed later in the year after the second round of jabs is completed.During Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons, Johnson said a 50 million dose deal with pharmaceutical firm Curevac will assist in developing vaccines to respond “at scale to new variants of the virus”.He told MPs: “We’re going to have to get used to vaccinating and then revaccinating in the autumn as we come to face these new variants.”Mutations that give the