Warning over schools return and roadmap - key points from Boris Johnson's Downing Street press conference

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direct to your inboxBoris Johnson refused to comment on claims aired in the Duke and Duchess' Oprah Winfrey interview.Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made bombshell claims in the interview with the US chat show host that a member of the Royal Family had asked them how dark their baby's skin colour would be.

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

direct to your inboxBoris Johnson has hailed the first phase of lockdown easing as the result of a 'truly national effort' to beat coronavirus.Schoolchildren across England are due to return to the classroom on Monday as the government goes ahead with the first stage of the roadmap.The Prime Minister said: “The reopening of schools marks a truly national effort to beat this virus.“It is because of the determination of every person in this country that we can start moving closer to a sense of

polarised opinions about Wales’ future,He spoke as a new poll showed a dramatic rise in support for Welsh independence to nearly 40 per cent.Drakeford said: “I do think the effect of the pandemic and the last 12 months has been to polarise opinion in Wales about the way it should be governed.“What we have to do – to quote a Conservative member of the Senedd, David Melding – is we have to recognise that the union as it is, is over.

Labour leader said the Government has not “secured our borders in the way we should have done” after the new strain was detected in six travellers, three of whom came to Scotland, before the February quarantine rules were introduced.An enhanced contact tracing effort is under way after three Scottish residents tested positive for the new strain after flying into Aberdeen from Brazil, via Paris and London.Other passengers who were on the same flight from London are now being contacted.Starmer

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.