{"id":159193,"date":"2020-09-04T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/04\/uk-coronavirus-live-no-10-fails-to-defend-pm-being-at-tory-meeting-where-social-distancing-rules-ignored\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:40:17","slug":"uk-coronavirus-live-no-10-fails-to-defend-pm-being-at-tory-meeting-where-social-distancing-rules-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=159193","title":{"rendered":"UK coronavirus live: No 10 fails to defend PM being at Tory meeting where social distancing rules ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meeting of backbench 1922 Committee fuels claims that Boris Johnson guilty of hypocrisyStaffordshire school closes after Covid caseManchester Airports Group calls for urgent Covid testing of arrivalsUK flip-flopping over quarantine devastates Portuguese tourist industryPupils with special needs \u2018forgotten\u2019 as English schools reopenGlobal coronavirus updates \u2013 live 2.40pm BST The latest official published R figure for the UK is between 0.9 and 1.1, with the number of new infections somewhere between shrinking by 1% and growing by 2% every day, the latest update from the government reveals.For England alone, R is estimated to be between 0.9 and 1, with a growth rate between -2% and +1%.These estimates represent the transmission of Covid-19 from several weeks ago due to a time delay between someone being infected and needing healthcare. Sage [the government\u2019s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies] does not have confidence that R is currently below 1 in England. 2.21pm BST Downing Street has not disputed a claim that the prime minister thinks that the trade talks with the EU are now more likely than not to fail. In his Times column (paywall) today, the Spectator\u2019s political editor James Forsyth says the hances of a Brexit deal have \u201creceded significantly\u201d recently. \u201cInside No 10, they now think there is only a 30 to 40% chance that there will be an agreement,\u201d he writes. At the No 10 lobby briefing the spokesman not challenge that assessment, but he would not confirm it either. He would not comment on percentages, he said. He said the government still wanted a deal. But it needed \u201cmore realism\u201d from the EU.In his column Forsyth says state aid rules are the key sticking point, and particularly their implications for technology companies. He says:The Johnson government wants to use the power of the state to mould and develop what it sees as the industries of the future. One figure with intimate knowledge of the negotiations and how they link to domestic policy tells me \u201cstate aid is critical if you are going to try and shape markets in technology\u201d …The view in Downing Street is that this country needs to develop large technology companies at scale and that requires state involvement. Continue reading…
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Meeting of backbench 1922 Committee fuels claims that Boris Johnson guilty of hypocrisyStaffordshire school closes after Covid caseManchester Airports Group calls for urgent Covid testing of arrivalsUK flip-flopping over quarantine devastates Portuguese tourist industryPupils with special needs \u2018forgotten\u2019 as English schools reopenGlobal coronavirus updates \u2013 live 2.40pm BST The latest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}