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Foreign secretary Dominic Raab, who has taken charge of the government's response to the pandemic while Prime Minister Boris Johnson continues to recover from the coronavirus, arrives in Downing Street, London
LABOUR criticised the Department of Health for failing to prepare for the high demand of free Covid-19 tests after a new webpage offering them to key workers “crashed” within minutes today.
All essential staff in England – including NHS and social care workers, police officers, teachers, social workers, local authority staff, undertakers and supermarket and food production workers – are eligible for the tests.
Key workers can register on the gov.uk website for drive-through centre appointments or home test kits for their household – although the latter are in limited supply.
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and union member, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls from National Nurses United to dismantle Ice and related agencies, says MARK GRUENBERG
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
