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Boris Johnson is set to hire a £100,000 a year spokesperson to run televised Downing Street briefings along the lines of the US White House news conferences. The controversial new post is being created to host the daily televised press briefings the government plans to start holding in the autumn in an attempt to escape detailed scrutiny by the media.

Patel will not be published in full, Downing Street has said. The Prime Minister’s spokesman refused to say if any of its findings will be published before Parliament’s summer recess which begins this Wednesday.Boris Johnson has insisted in the past that he will “stick with Prit” after the Tory minister became the subject of a Cabinet Office probe into whether she bullied staff at the Home Office.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterMP Allan Dorans is due to meet Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a fight over justice for a murdered police woman.The Ayr Carrick and Cumnock MP was working as a police sergeant in London’s west end when Yvonne Fletcher was shot in the city on April 17, 1984.The 25-year-old was gunned down outside the Libyan Embassy.

would be needed for a “prolonged period”, while the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance warned that winter would be "a very complex time". At a Downing Street briefing yesterday, where he outlined a new timetable for lifting the remaining lockdown restrictions from August 1, prime minister Boris Johnson said he hoped for "a more significant return to normality from November".

Boris Johnson outlined the government's plans to reopen businesses that have had to remain closed throughout the coronavirus pandemic. July has so far seen the reopening of salons, pubs, restaurants and beauticians, with gyms and indoor pools to reopen later this month.Now, Mr Johnson has outlined how he plans to lift the remaining restrictions, with more businesses set to open from August.

Local authorities in England will have new powers from Saturday to tackle coronavirus outbreaks, the Prime Minister has announced.The new powers will allow councils and ministers to close specific premises, shut down outdoor space, and cancel events.Stay at home orders could also be imposed, Boris Johnson added.He unveiled the new tools at a coronavirus press conference on Friday.Speaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: “At the start of the pandemic, we knew far less about the spread of

“power surge” to Scotland as he prepared to publish legislation for a UK internal market to replace the EU Single Market.

hereHowever Labour leader Keir Starmer insisted this was ‘not an apology’ and Jennifer - who works at a care home in Stockport - takes the same view.She said: “He has no right to say that. He should be saying 'well done', not just to the NHS but to the carers.

Pointless star Richard Osman has compared people who refuse to wear a mask to those who protested at the idea of seatbelts being a legal requirement for drivers in 1983.The co-creator and presenter of the popular BBC1 quiz show made his point on Twitter over the weekend, amid continuing debate about wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic. UK prime minister Boris Johnson recently hinted that wearing masks in shops could become mandatory, as he encourages people to return to work.

concerns over the British Government’s recent radical shake-up of UK planning laws, the Music Venue Trust have received confirmation that grassroots venues will not be put at risk.Last Tuesday (June 30), Boris Johnson unveiled his economic recovery plan for the UK after the coronavirus crisis, and confirmed new proposals that will allow developers to demolish and rebuild vacant and redundant commercial buildings if they are rebuilt as homes.Dubbed “project speed”, the proposals will also allow a

coronavirus pandemic. The Prime Minister has been slammed in the last 24 hours for trying to shift the blame for over 20,000 care home deaths during the pandemic to the care sector.