How could a police officer be shot inside his own station? And, a Tory rebellion threatens Boris Johnson
Urgent questions are being asked after a custody sergeant was shot dead by a suspect in a police station in Croydon. An investigation's underway into how the man, believed to have been arrested on sus...
25 Sep 202013min
Covid job support scheme to replace furlough - but Rishi Sunak says ‘ we can’t save every job'
Rishi Sunak's urging the country to “live without fear” after unveiling a new part-time Jobs Support Scheme and other measures designed to prop up the economy until a coronavirus vaccine is ready. The...
24 Sep 202014min
Coronavirus: What's Boris Johnson's strategy really about? And, how the country changed during 6 months of lockdown
Are divisions in the cabinet the cause of muddled messaging and seemingly contradictory guidelines being issued by the government on coronavirus? Senior editor of the Economist, Anne McElvoy joins us ...
23 Sep 202014min
New coronavirus lockdown rules: everything you need to know; & how doctors are preparing for a second wave
Boris Johnson has revealed a swathe of new coronavirus restrictions, as the country tries to fend of the infection's apparent revival. There are curfews on bars, strict new face mask policies, even th...
22 Sep 202014min
As UK infections surge, what’s in store for a new lockdown?
The UK’s top health officials have warned that if the rate of coronavirus infections continues unabated, we could hit 50,000 per day by mid October. By mid-November, they say that could mean Britain r...
21 Sep 202012min
UK lockdown: is a second Covid lockdown coming? And why adoptions went up during the pandemic
Heath Secretary Matt Hancock has put the country on notice for a national social lockdown, saying: “I fear more people will die.” But our political editor Joe Murphy says restrictions this time could ...
18 Sep 202014min
Coronavirus testing: NO tests available in London as cases rise; and is JK Rowling's new novel really "transphobic"?
The full scale of the Covid testing crisis in London has been exposed by an Evening Standard investigation which found appointments were not available to book online. Our reporter Rachael Burford trie...
17 Sep 202012min
Coronavirus testing: What's really going on inside the labs?; & even British Airways admits it's "fighting for survival"
Ministers are under pressure to rethink the system of “outsourcing” for processing coronavirus tests as spare capacity in NHS laboratories goes unused. The chaos facing people trying to get Covid chec...
16 Sep 202016min
