Portrait of the week
Portrait of the week
Home Pubs in England would be allowed to reopen for table service from 4 July, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister,…
Portrait of the week
Home Britain went into a frenzy of iconoclasm. The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was hidden by the…
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Home The government lurched uncertainly in dealing with coronavirus. Not all years in primary schools would after all return before…
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Home Primary schools were allowed to reopen but many did not want to. MPs voted to return to their physical…
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Home Open-air markets and car showrooms will be allowed to open from 1 June and other ‘non-essential’ shops from 15…
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Home The United Kingdom seemed reluctant to come out of its lockdown. ‘We are likely to face a severe recession,…
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Home The government changed its slogan from ‘Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’ to ‘Stay alert, control the virus,…
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Home The government put its mind to the puzzle of how to get people back to work. Draft advice was…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, returned to work at Downing Street after recovering from his Covid-19 sickness. Speaking outside…
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Home The number of people with the coronavirus disease Covid-19 who had died in hospitals by the beginning of the…
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Home The number of people with the coronavirus disease Covid-19 who had died in hospitals by the beginning of the…
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Home The number of people who had died from the coronavirus disease Covid-19 in the UK by Sunday 5 April…
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Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, contracted the coronavirus disease Covid-19, as did Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary. The Prince…
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Coronavirus Sunday dawned with 233 people in the United Kingdom dead thus far from the coronavirus Covid-19 (a week earlier…
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Coronavirus The government asked all people over 70 to cease from social contact for at least 12 weeks in order…
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Home At the beginning of the week 319 people in the United Kingdom had been found to be suffering from…
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Home After a Cobra emergency meeting about the coronavirus Covid-19, when the number of cases in the United Kingdom had…
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Home The government told Britons returning from 11 quarantined towns in northern Italy to isolate themselves, for fear of spreading…
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Home The Budget, still scheduled for 11 March, had to be rewritten after Rishi Sunak was made Chancellor of the…
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Home The Department of Health classified the novel coronavirus (named by the World Health Organization Covid-19) as a ‘serious and imminent…
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Home The United Kingdom quietly left the European Union at 11 p.m. GMT on 31 January. Boris Johnson, the Prime…
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Home Using a Parker fountain pen (a brand now made in Nantes), Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, signed the EU…
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Home The Duke of Sussex left England to join his wife, Meghan, in Canada. This followed an agreement that stripped…
Portrait of the week: Harry and Meghan quit, America avoids war and the Labour leadership race begins
Home The Queen agreed to ‘a period of transition’ during which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would spend time…
Portrait of the week: Crisis in Iran, fires in Australia and Manchester rapist jailed
Home Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, who had not been told in advance of America’s killing in Iraq of Qassem…
