Business Secretary Alok Sharma has become the latest minister to directly apologise for the government’s failure to get NHS workers the personal protective equipment (PPE) it needs.

Home secretary Priti Patel has said she is sorry ‘if people feel there have been failings’ over getting NHS staff personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus outbreak.

Labour has echoed a call from the British Medical Association expressing concern why a ‘disproportionate’ number of people who have died from coronavirus come from ethnic minority communities.

Prominent backbencher Jess Phillips has been promoted to sit in Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s top team.

A coronavirus vaccine could be available for the general public by September, an Oxford scientist has claimed.

Health secretary Matt Hancock has been criticised after claiming that personal protective equipment (PPE) should be treated as a ‘precious resource’, implying that NHS staff were wasting it.

Boris Johnson is likely to feel as if he has been ‘hit by several buses’ and will need time to recover from the coronavirus, an expert has suggested.

One of the scientists advising the government on the coronavirus lockdown has said that public compliance with the measures is working better than expected.

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick ‘complied with social distancing rules’ when he travelled more than 40 miles to visit his elderly parents.

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Boris Johnson is reportedly worried the coronavirus lockdown has ‘gone too far’ with his team looking at ways to ‘soften’ the messaging.

Officials in Boris Johnson’s inner team failed to take the coronavirus seriously enough, a Tory MP has claimed.

The government must release all prisoners who do not pose a threat to society immediately, says Boris Johnson’s former press secretary Ashish Prashar

Boris Johnson ‘almost took one for the team’ over the coronavirus, and will now need a period of rest, his dad has said.

The government is prioritising ‘ideology over national interest’, Labour’s new shadow chancellor has said.

MPs have been offered support of up an extra £10,000 to help themselves and their staff from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

The head of the European Union’s top science organisation has left his job in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak - with the EU claiming fellow members had called forced him out.

Questions are being raised as the home secretary is yet to make an appearance at the government’s coronavirus press conferences.

A Conservative MP has been criticised for calling to re-open churches for Easter, despite the government urging people to stay home over the holiday.

Germany is set to send 60 mobile ventilators to its European partner to help the NHS tackle the coronavirus outbreak.

The public back calls for a government of national unity in a bid to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

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Brexit negotiations could be put on hold due to a shortage of videoconferencing equipment during the coronavirus pandemic.

BBC presenter Andrew Neil has been criticised for openly admitting to blocking users referencing the ‘Follow Back Pro-Europe’ hashtag on Twitter.

Newsnight broadcaster Emily Maitlis has received an outpour of praise for her “powerful words” on the coronavirus pandemic as she introduced the current affairs programme.

A row has erupted between Yvette Cooper and Priti Patel after the home secretary ignored requests to be quizzed by MPs over her department’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.

There are calls for the government to tighten the lockdown rules - rather than relax them - as measures are expected to last until at least May.

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Boris Johnson is on the mend and “sitting up in bed” the chancellor has confirmed.

Bernie Sanders has ended his US presidential campaign after disappointing primary results, leaving Joe Biden as the likely Democratic nominee.

The European parliament building will be opened up to the homeless during the coronavirus outbreak and its kitchens will help provide meals for health workers.

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Boris Johnson is “responding to treatment” in a London hospital as he battles coronavirus, Downing Street has said.

A cross-party group of peers are calling for a ‘virtual parliament’ to be swiftly established to hold the government to account during the coronavirus outbreak.

As left-wing Labour pressure group Momentum told members that the ‘left cannot continue as it has been’ a split has emerged with the creation of new group ‘Forward Momentum’.

We will come out of the coronavirus wiser if we do not frame the response in narrow military language, says ALEXANDRE CHRISTOYANNOPOULOS.

Boris Johnson’s health is said to be improving after doctors managed to get his temperature down, with the prime minister in a ‘stable’ condition.

Concerns have been raised about the government’s coronavirus strategy as Downing Street appeared to defer any decisions while Boris Johnson as in hospital.

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Overweight people and smokers - in other words the poor - are most hit by coronavirus, argues WILL SELF.

The UK Labour movement now understands the important of Scotland, the newly appointed shadow Scotland secretary has claimed.

Ex-prime ministers John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are among a group of 92 former world leaders calling for a global financial stimulus to tackle the economic impact of the Covid-19 outbreak.

The prime minister’s spokesman said there is an ‘established order of precedence’ within Downing Street to replace Dominic Raab if he becomes incapacitated.

Dominic Raab’s powers as de facto prime minister are extensive, and would allow him to order military action, Number 10 have said.

A Derbyshire mayor has lost the Labour whip after claiming that Boris Johnson deserves the coronavirus.

Former prime minister David Cameron has played down the prospect of a national unity government to respond to the Covid-19 crisis, as he sent his best wishes to Boris Johnson.

Boris Johnson is in a “stable” condition after spending the night in intensive care as he battles coronavirus.

Michael Gove has become the latest member of the government to go into self-isolation because of the coronavirus.

Jewish leaders have praised new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer for having ‘achieved in four days more than his predecessor in four years’ with his steps to tackle anti-Semitism in the party.

BBC Children In Need and Comic Relief will come together for the first time in a special televised event, The Big Night In, to raise money for those affected by the coronavirus outbreak.

Political campaign group Led By Donkeys has swapped its political campaigning to use its platform to praise heroism amid the coronavirus outbreak.

A decade ago, Dominic Raab was readying himself for a possible career in frontline politics. Today he dials into a cabinet meeting as de facto prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Jeremy Corbyn’s director of communications, Seumas Milne, has left his post within the leader’s office and has been replaced.

The prime minister is ‘extremely sick’ - with many coronavirus patients who need intensive care requiring invasive ventilation, an expert has said.

Prime minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worsened, Downing Street has said.

MPs are calling for social media companies to be held to account for the spread of conspiracy theories online linking 5G technology to the coronavirus outbreak.

Downing Street has hit out at Russian ‘disinformation’ after a state-run news agency claimed Boris Johnson would soon be put on a ventilator as he struggles with coronavirus.

Ed Miliband will return to the Labour frontbench under Sir Keir Starmer as the new leader revealed an overhauled shadow cabinet that includes his former leadership rivals.