NEWS
Boris Johnson will order pubs and restaurants to close at 10pm, tell workers ‘stay home if you can’ and demand police crack down hard on rule breakers
The government will impose a set of new restrictions on liberty today to begin on Thursday. The ‘back to work’ drive is to be dropped and a 10pm curfew will be set on bars and restaurants. Pubs and other venues will be allowed to serve seated customers only and drinkers will be banned from gathering in crowds. The chief medical officer Chris Whitty has suggested these measures are crucial to break ‘unnecessary links between households’ – Mail
Senior Tory accuses Boris Johnson of ruling by decree during Covid crisis – Times
‘Implausible’: Scientists hit out at warning of 50,000 Covid cases a day – Telegraph
Curfews will ruin sector ‘already on its knees’, pubs warn Boris Johnson – Guardian
MPs urged to do unconscious bias training as dozens of Tories are set to reject it – Guardian
HS2 under fire over £2m polling contract with Ipsos Mori – Telegraph
COMMENT
After The Two Ronnies of Doom, here’s the speech Boris Johnson should give – Richard Littlejohn, Mail
Lurch towards lockdown leaves Boris Johnson on brink of being well and truly stumped – Camilla Tominey, Telegraph
