The government’s main plan of action for providing affordable housing for the financially constrained, the National Action Plan for Production and Supply of Housing, involves the construction of 400,000 small and medium sized flats nationwide within a two year time frame.

Schools in Scotland having ended the first week of classes after five months of Covid-19 lockdown, can teach the rest of the UK some important lessons.

Despite the large spike in positive tests reported by England's test and trace service earlier, the level of coronavirus in the community has remained stable during the past week according to the Office for National Statistics.

Portugal is to be added to the UK’s travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from the country will no longer have to quarantine, but Croatia and Trinidad and Tobago are being removed.

Transport Minister Grant Shapps, during a TV interview, announced that France would be removed from the UK travel corridor, caused much confusion by giving the wrong starting date for self isolation when returning to Britain from France.

Mr Johnson made the remark just hours after the ONS reported that England had “the highest levels of excess mortality in Europe for the period as a whole".

Boris Johnson urged Britain to lose “a little bit of weight” on Monday, using his own struggle with his weight before he contracted the coronavirus.

The government stands accused of lacking clarity as face mask regulations are published less than 24 hours before coming into effect resulting in much public confusion.

The UK has secured an agreement for 30m doses of a drug being developed by BioNTech and the German firm Pfizer.

Senior doctors in the UK are pleading with the public to help prevent a second wave of coronavirus that could “devastate” the NHS.