UK economy might not return to pre-virus level until 2024
Forecasters EY Item Club, who use a similar economic model to the Treasury, suggest that unemployment will balloon to 9 per cent from 3.9 per cent in that period.
Young BAME men twice as likely to be fined for breaching lockdown rules
A National Police Chiefs’ Council report concluded there has been “disproportionality” in the issuing of fines by police forces in England and Wales.
Austerity pushed NHS to the brink before Covid-19 crisis, think-tank says
More than four-in-five English hospitals had “dangerously low” spare capacity on the eve of the crisis.
MPs handed tax break to buy £2,500 e-bikes
The £1,000 limit for buying a bike through the government's Cycle2Work scheme has been more than doubled to £2,500.
Teenagers face years behind bars over killing of Pc Andrew Harper
Newlywed Pc Andrew Harper, 28, became entangled in a tow rope attached to their Seat Toledo as he tried to apprehend them.
‘Brassneck’ Patel criticised for Paulette Wilson comment
Priti Patel has attracted criticism after she praised campaigner Paulette Wilson - who died suddenly on Thursday - for highlighting the "terrible injustices faced by the Windrush generation"
Windrush campaigner who died ‘had spirit broken by government’
Paulette Wilson, who died unexpectedly aged 64 on Thursday, was a “precious gem” who was “broken by the Government”, according fellow campaigner Patrick Vernon
Corbyn legal fund surpasses £100k in donations
The GoFundMe page was set up by a Corbyn supporter after it emerged that Panorama reporter John Ware plans to take legal action against the former Labour leader.
‘Your move, spies’: Reaction as government plans to put all foreign agents on a register
The UK government is reportedly planning to require states to stick the names of their foreign agents working in Britain on a government register.