The Covid-generation of home-schooled children lacked ‘discipline and order’ while stuck at home during lockdown, says Gavin Williamson. The Education Secretary has backed a mobile phones ban in schools, saying it is ‘now time to put the screens away’ as the return to classrooms rendered remote learning – which relied on internet-accessible devises – redundant. He said … Read more
Ministers did not take responsibility for decisions made during the initial response to the coronavirus pandemic, a think tank has claimed. A report by the Institute for Government said leaders ‘lacked a wider sense of strategy’ at times and relied too heavily on scientific advice. It concluded that the Government should have been prepared to act … Read more
Paul Nurse, a geneticist and the director of the Francis Crick Institute, appeared alongside former Chancellor George Osbourne and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. In response to Fiona Bruce asking whether he believed that the UK had done enough to prepare for a pandemic, Mr Nurse was scathing in his rebuke of a perceived lack of … Read more