Face-to-face assessments for sickness and disability welfare payments will be suspended for three months to protect vulnerable claimants from coronavirus. The Department of Work and Pensions said the temporary move will come into effect from
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Under-funded NHS lacking ventilators and intensive care doctors for coronavirus
British manufacturers are being urged to start making ventilators as the Government battles to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. Production lines will be switched so they can build the vital medical devices to help keep Covid-19
Read moreTrump Says He’s ‘Strongly Considering’ Pardoning Flynn
Some aides close to Mr. Trump say he may be moving to pardon Mr. Flynn — an act that would open up the president to enormous criticism — at a time when the news media’s
Read more‘Britain sidelined as a weak Prime Minister flounders amid coronavirus pandemic’
With twister Boris Johnson in Downing Street during this crisis, politics looks like a game where the unfittest survive best, not the fittest. The coronavirus may yet bring down the Tory charlatan, who now looks
Read moreMnuchin says U.S. coronavirus aid bill cost should be significant, not huge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday the cost of a coronavirus aid package will likely be “significant but not huge.” Mnuchin told “Fox News Sunday” he expected to have a
Read moreCoronavirus: UK in ‘far worse’ position than most of Europe on key equipment
A decade of under-funding in key equipment to tackle coronavirus has left Britain in a “far worse” starting position than most of Europe, the government has been warned. Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British
Read moreNHS steps up fight against coronvirus with plans to rent 8,000 private beds
Eight thousand private hospital beds will be used to relieve pressure on the NHS as it battles the coronavirus crisis. They will be rented as the Government steps up its fight against the disease. Troops
Read moreDate of general election will depend on what will best see Singapore through Covid-19 situation, says PM Lee
SINGAPORE – The date of the next general election will depend on what will best see Singapore through the major crisis posed by the coronavirus pandemic, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Singapore faces grave
Read moreMore than 700,000 people are having a fifth of their Universal Credit taken away
More than 700,000 people in Britain are having a fifth of their Universal Credit taken away – before it's even paid. The government has admitted 739,000 people on the six-in-one benefit lost at least 20%
Read moreBrexit warning: Boris reveals ‘deal breaker’ in EU trade talks – needs answer before June
The UK and Europea Union opened talks over their future relationship after Brexit – just weeks after Britain finally officially left the bloc on January 31 after several months of delays. Boris Johnson wants an
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