Covid UK: FTSE 100 rises after ‘roadmap out of lockdown’ revealed

FTSE 100 creeps up by just 14 points or 0.2 per cent to 6,616 as investors tentatively welcome Boris Johnson’s plan to lift Covid restrictions FTSE 100 index rises 14 points to 6,616 in half-hour after PM’s announcement  But index of Britain’s leading companies is still down by 12 points or 0.2% on day Fears … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown in full

Boris Johnson’s 60-page roadmap out of lockdown in full: PM’s four-step plan to lift England’s Covid restrictions By Mark Duell for MailOnline Published: 16:59 GMT, 22 February 2021 | Updated: 17:24 GMT, 22 February 2021 Advertisement The UK Government released a 60-page document today explaining Boris Johnson’s announcement of a four-stage plan to gradually lift … Read more

Working from home could stay until JUNE under Boris Johnson’s lockdown roadmap

Working from home could remain until JUNE under Boris Johnson’s lockdown roadmap despite plan to abandon ‘Stay at Home’ slogan for ‘Stay Local’ at the end of March   By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 16:38 GMT, 22 February 2021 | Updated: 16:38 GMT, 22 February 2021 Britons could be working from home until … Read more

Open pubs by EASTER, demand Tory MPs ahead of Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown announcement

Pubs must be open by Easter, Tory MPs demanded today ahead of Boris Johnson’s announcement of plans to unchain the UK from coronavirus lockdown. The COVID Recovery Group of Tory backbenchers seemed unsatisfied with details of the PM’s roadmap to recovery briefed over the weekend. It suggested April could be the earliest pubs could serve … Read more

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: We need a jump-start, not just this roadmap 

As roadmaps go, it’s hardly the full AA atlas. Yes, it leads us out of the cul-de-sac we’ve been stuck in since December, but sadly not as far as the open road. That page appears to be missing. If advance indications are to be believed, Boris Johnson’s chart for national reawakening is cautious, highly conditional … Read more

Ministers hold top-level meeting TODAY to finalise Boris Johnson’s lockdown roadmap

Boris Johnson and his senior ministers will meet this afternoon to finalise his roapmap for getting the nation out of lockdown before it is unveiled to the public tomorrow. Senior Cabinet figures will join the Prime Minister on a call this afternoon to hammer out the last details of the plan that will shape the … Read more

Lockdown roadmap: Schools open, meet friends outdoors and see grandchildren BEFORE Easter

Britons could be out and about playing golf and tennis and enjoying time in the park with friends and family within weeks under plans being drawn up to ease the lockdown. Boris Johnson this morning pledged a ‘cautious but irreversible’ approach to easing restrictions that have been in place since the new year. The Prime … Read more

Industry leaders want to see roadmap out of lockdown

Industry leaders urging Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to publish a roadmap to exit lockdown By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 00:01 GMT, 1 February 2021 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 1 February 2021 Industry leaders are urging Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to publish a roadmap to exit lockdown.  The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) … Read more

75-page hospitality industry report sets out roadmap to getting restaurants and pubs open on July 4

The hospitality industry has submitted a 75 page report setting out a roadmap to getting restaurants and pubs open on July 4, that includes ditching the hotel buffet and no more drinkers at the bar. The dossier has been submitted to ministers by UKHospitality, the trade body for the industry, as reported by The Daily … Read more