As the prefects guffawed, MPs stared daggers: HENRY DEEDES watches Matt Hancock announce Covid tiers

And so came the tiers. There was no actual blubbing in the chamber when Matt Hancock announced his post-lockdown restrictions yesterday. Some Tory MPs looked jolly close to turning on the waterworks though. Blimey, were they cross! The Health Secretary had just announced that all of them – barring members for Cornwall, the Isles of … Read more

NHS GP Dr RENEE HOENDERKAMP argues that our new lockdown tiers make no sense 

Just imagine that this time last year someone had described to you what Britain would look like in December 2020. They would tell of a country in which vast swathes of the population had spent endless months locked down at home. Where one business after another was heading for the wall, where children were being … Read more

Coronavirus England: Lockdown tiers may be ‘unjustified’

Just 9,854 new infections were recorded in England yesterday, almost half of the number of diagnoses last Tuesday (18,626)  Local lockdown tiers announced tomorrow may already be outdated and ‘unjustified’ when England’s national shutdown lapses next week because Covid infections are plummeting across the country, according to one of Britain’s top infectious disease experts.  Just … Read more

Lockdown tiers announced tomorrow could be ‘unjustified’, Oxford scientist warns

Just 9,854 new infections were recorded in England yesterday, almost half of the number of diagnoses last Tuesday (18,626)  Local lockdown tiers announced tomorrow may already be outdated and ‘unjustified’ when England’s national shutdown lapses next week because Covid infections are plummeting across the country, according to one of Britain’s top infectious disease experts.  Just … Read more

Top City bosses warn: Tougher tiers risk disaster

Top City bosses say tougher tier system will ‘devastate’ their businesses and risk a tsunami of job losses Shops, bars and restaurants will reopen on December 2 There there are fears swathes of the country will be plunged back into even harsher restrictions than before the lockdown By Tom Witherow And Lucy White For The … Read more

DAN HODGES: If Dishy Rishi doesn’t get his golden touch back it could all end in Tiers 

Rishi Sunak has finally been tripped up. ‘He got away with it for a while,’ says a Minister.  ‘He’d set out a plan. Then go away. Then have to come back a couple of weeks later and set out another plan. ‘At first it looked like he was being flexible. But now people are starting … Read more