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Millions
more face
toughest
Covid curbs
6
PM pushes for highest risk level across north
6
Adviser wants even stricter lockdowns
Boris Johnson at
last night’s news
conference on
the revamped
system to halt
rising infections
Francis Elliott Political Editor measures, such as pub closures and a Closing pubs not enough, says Whitty
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor ban on household mixing, were needed
Oliver Wright Policy Editor on top of a national two-week “circuit-
breaker”.
Boris Johnson urged council leaders 6YouGov polling for The Times indi- Chris Smyth it”, he said. In the “very high” tier, pubs likely to lead to transmission events are
across the north last night to step up cated that almost half of voters think must close unless they are serving sub- indoors, with households that are not
and agree draconian lockdown that national measures are not tough The “very high” level of coronavirus stantial meals. They are only allowed your household, in relatively crowded
measures after Liverpool’s regional enough. restrictions, which shut pubs and limit to serve alcohol with these dishes. environments,” he added. “This is true
mayor accepted tough restrictions. 6Analysis by Cancer Research UK household contact, will not be However, ministers want to negotiate for hospitality, it’s true for other sectors
The city, and some of the surrounding showed that about three million people sufficient without even tougher local with councils for closures of establish- as well. But it is one of the areas where,
area, will be on the highest coronavirus had missed out on cancer screening action, the chief medical officer for ments such as restaurants, gyms and around the world, there is a view that
alert from tomorrow after the launch of since the end of March. England has warned. hairdressers. this is one of the contributors — not the
a three-tier system intended to reboot 6Three Nightingale hospitals were Chris Whitty said that “rates will Professor Whitty said that councils only one, [but] that is the reason why
the fight to contain the virus in put on standby and NHS staff were told continue inexorably to rise” if more is had the flexibility to “do significantly the hospitality sector has been in-
England. that they would get routine testing. not done. He has privately told more than the absolute base because volved in restrictions across Europe
However, the announcement of what At a press conference with Chris ministers that the reboot is not enough the base will not be sufficient. That’s and the rest of the world.”
was intended to be a simplified policy Whitty, the chief medical officer for En- to bring the pandemic under control very clearly the professional view.” Professor Whitty emphasised that
was overshadowed by rows over how gland, and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, unless more areas are placed into the He said that while rates were highest there would need to be significant
and where it will operate. the prime minister put pressure on top tier. in the north there was “already clear sacrifices in the coming months. “The
Mr Johnson hinted at tougher northern leaders to agree to tougher At a Downing Street press confer- evidence of spread around the coun- idea we can do this without causing
national action to come, saying that he lockdowns. He offered mayors and ence yesterday he said that he was try”, as well as rising cases in the over- harm is an illusion,” he said. “But there
did not want to impose a complete council leaders greater discretion over particularly concerned by the rise in sixties that would soon lead to more are quite a lot more additional things
lockdown “right now” but the figures specific measures, more cash and even hospital admissions among people hospital patients. “We are going to have that can be done within that, with local
on infections and hospital admissions the support of the army. over 60, which, he suggested, was evi- to do more — that’s the whole point of guidance.”
were “flashing at us like dashboard All local authorities in England were dence that the virus was now spreading what the prime minister has just an- He urged the public to abide by the
warnings in a passenger jet”. categorised as having a medium, high across all age groups in the community. nounced — and probably in some areas new system of restrictions, adding:
The developments came as: or very high alert level for coronavirus, Professor Whitty said that top-tier significantly more,” he told the press “The central thing about this is, these
6Britain recorded 13,972 new Covid-19 with escalating severity of restrictions. coronavirus restrictions imposed on conference. only work if people buy into them.”
cases, up 11 per cent on Monday last Those in the medium tier are subject Liverpool would not be enough unless Professor Whitty acknowledged Britain would be in a “remarkably
week, and 50 deaths. Hospital only to national measures, such as councils went beyond simply closing that there was no “grade A” evidence better place” to fight Covid-19 next
admissions reached a level higher than the rule of six and a 10pm curfew for pubs. He was “not confident, and nor is that hospitality was driving the spread winter, he added, even if a vaccine had
before the national lockdown in March. hospitality. The high alert level com- anybody confident, that the tier-three of the virus but said public health not been approved. “This does not
6It emerged that the Scientific prises a simplified and standardised set proposals for the highest rates, if we did experts around the world had made a depend on a vaccine — science will
Advisory Group for Emergencies of existing measures, including bans on the absolute base case, and nothing “professional judgment” that it was support us from many different direc-
warned three weeks ago that long-term Continued on page 2, col 3 more, would be enough to get on top of contributing. Venues “that are the most tions,” he said.
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GCSE and A-level exams are
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8.45am The housing secretary, Robert Jenrick
11am Matt Chorley chats to the political broadcaster
David Dimbleby
2pm The Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, director of
Birmingham Royal Ballet Greg Hurst Social Affairs Editor university admissions but should mean exams, despite expectations of stricter
university term dates can begin as usual and more co-ordinated timing and in-
8.30pm Noddy Holder talks about the release of GCSE and A-level exams will be post- in September or October. vigilation in case grades awarded by
Slade’s new greatest hits album poned by three weeks next year to give The announcement followed tense teachers are needed again next year.
10.30pm Mo Hussein, former Conservative special teenagers more teaching time, the negotiations between the Department He said: “We know that exams are
adviser, and Madeleine Moon, former Labour MP, government announced yesterday. for Education and Ofqual, the inde- the fairest way of measuring a student’s
Head teachers said that the move was pendent exams regulator. Relations abilities and accomplishments, includ-
take a first look at tomorrow’s front pages
“inadequate” to ensure assessments were soured after the cancellation of ing the most disadvantaged.”
were fair after months of lost learning. this year’s exams during the lockdown Most vocational and technical quali-
There will be no further changes to and worsened in the summer when fications were expected to be taken on
Listen for free DAB | Smart speaker | Online at times.radio | Times Radio app the GCSE and A-level syllabus content grades based on teachers’ judgments similar timetables, he added.
examined, the government said. Head were moderated by the regulator’s algo- Geoff Barton, general secretary of
teachers had called for fewer topics on rithm, before being replaced with the the Association of School and College
exam papers or greater choice of exam school-assessed results after an outcry. Leaders, representing most secondary
TODAY’S EDITION
questions for candidates who may have Gavin Williamson, the education school head teachers, called the an-
missed topics because of the pandemic. secretary, told MPs in a written minis- nouncement “an inadequate response”.
Limited reductions have been made terial statement that most GCSE, AS He said: “Delaying the start of exams by
Electric car Blue Peter star Gangsters using to some GCSEs, including topics in En- and A-level exams would begin on June three weeks is of marginal benefit when
shortages denies assault automatic guns glish literature, geography fieldwork, 7 next year, which is 23 days later than compared to the loss of learning from
history, ancient history and languages. usual, with final papers on July 2. the national lockdown and ongoing dis-
Britain could run out A former Blue Peter Automatic weapons, Ministers said that exams would be The main exceptions will be a paper ruption. There isn’t enough being done
of electric cars next presenter laughed as including Skorpion and held even in parts of England that may each from GCSE English and maths. to make the exams themselves fairer.
year as manufacturers he allegedly grabbed a G9A pistols, which fire still have tighter coronavirus restric- These will be sat before May half-term “Students need greater choice over
prioritise mainland woman’s breasts with at a speed comparable tions next summer. Contingency plans so that students who are forced to self- the topics they answer questions on, so
Europe, according to both hands after to an AK47 rifle, are will be discussed with head teachers. isolate during the exam season have the that they can select those which they
the Brussels-based arriving at a Christmas being smuggled into A-level and AS-level results will be greatest chance of sitting at least one have studied to sufficient depth. This is
group Transport & party in the West End Britain for organised announced on August 24, a Tuesday, paper in each of these core subjects. vital in addressing the fact that they will
Environment. Pure in 2008, Southwark criminals. Police seized with GCSE grades issued on August 27. Some A-level and AS-level exams have had different learning experien-
electric or hybrid cars crown court was told. the guns in raids after Awarding bodies will have to mark and with very low entry numbers will also ces due to the Covid pandemic and en-
have made up almost John Leslie, 55, denies European detectives check millions of exam papers within a take place in May. Mr Williamson made suring that all students have an equal
9 per cent of motor one charge of sexual broke an encrypted shortened time frame. This will delay no mention of arrangements for mock opportunity to answer questions fully.”
sales this year. Page 4 assault. Page 5 phone network. Page 14
Academics unite against Victims call
COMMENT
Covid has all but ended global tourism. We should reach of Chinese authority for limit on
start the salvage operation now if we want it back
informant law
HUGO RIFKIND, PAGE 25
Charlie Parker ties said that China’s national security
law made it too dangerous for them to
Democrats Tax talks reach FA warning on More than 100 leading scholars have voice their opinions. Speaking anony- Fiona Hamilton Crime & Security Editor
round on judge an impasse Premier League called on ministers and university mously, they revealed fears that their
leaders to form a “united front” against Chinese classmates would report them New legislation that would allow MI5
Democrats on the Negotiations between The Football China’s assault on academic autonomy. and put their families at risk. and police informants to commit crime
Senate judiciary 137 nations to secure Association has said British professors are leading a global Oxford and the School of Oriental puts them above the law and needs
committee attacked an extra $100 billion that it would use its academic “pushback” with a declara- and African Studies in London have strict limits, according to a group of
President Trump’s for governments by “golden share” to veto tion demanding that students and staff since introduced anonymity rules, but women who were tricked into sexual
proposed Supreme reforming tax rules for any power grab by are “vigorously defended” from an even this cannot guarantee that free relationships by undercover officers
Court judge, Amy tech giants and setting the Big Six Premier extraterritorial Chinese law designed expression is protected. “The measures posing as environmental activists.
Coney Barrett, over a global minimum League clubs. Critics to crack down on political dissent in proposed by Oxford are unrealistic for The women have called for a specific
her healthcare views corporation tax have say that reform plans Hong Kong. The national security law most universities; online services that ban on violent crime and sexual exploi-
as they capitalised on a stalled after a failure to led by Liverpool and warns that scholars in the UK who check student submissions for plagia- tation by undercover operatives.
nomination pushed reach an accord before Manchester United merely discuss sensitive topics about rism are vulnerable to cyberattacks,” The Covert Human Intelligence
through weeks before a self-imposed deadline would penalise China risk being arrested by the Hong the joint statement said. “Owing to the Sources Bill, which is undergoing par-
the election. Page 28 this week. Page 33 smaller clubs. Page 64 Kong state authorities, which can cite use of anti-plagiarism software, student liamentary scrutiny, allows operatives
lecture notes or classroom discussions coursework in the UK is semi-public, to carry out criminal acts to maintain
as evidence of subversion. meaning that Chinese authorities can their cover but contains no limits such
COMMENT 23 MARKETS 42-43 SPORT 54 It comes after The Times revealed easily access it,” one academic added. as banning murder and torture.
THUNDERER 24 REGISTER 49 CROSSWORD 64 yesterday that professors across the The scholars call for “a united front of In an open letter to James Broken-
LEADING ARTICLES27 COURT CIRCULAR 51 TV & RADIO TIMES2 country had united to urge university university leaders and academics, MPs shire, minister for security, the group of
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Star in Cleopatra casting carry-on
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The choice of an Israeli
Appropriation is (almost)
to play the Egyptian
queen has opened a all Greek to this queen
new front in the culture
I
wars, Will Pavia writes t is easy to question Macedonian accent of
demands that any her family, rather than
actress playing the Athenian Greek that
The last time Hollywood created a Cleopatra should be Alexander’s empire
Cleopatra, the actress was Elizabeth Egyptian to avoid made its “received
Taylor and the cost nearly bankrupted “cultural appropriation” pronunciation”. But she
a major studio. The announcement of a (Richard Spencer spoke at least half a
remake featuring the Israeli actress Gal writes). As the last in the dozen others and was the
Gadot went forth like the mounted line of Egypt’s first Ptolemaic pharaoh
trumpeters who heralded the queen’s Macedonian overlords, to speak Egyptian.
arrival in Rome in the 1963 film. known to historians as So she was certainly
But almost immediately, there was a the Ptolemaic dynasty, Greek-ish: her ancestry
revolt. Why had they not cast an Egyp- she came from strictly is not in dispute. That
tian woman, some asked. The journalist Greek stock. was ensured by the
Sameera Khan held that Cleopatra was When Alexander the similarly pharaonic
Greek and Berber, but lamented that an Great died aged 32 in practice of having the
Arab actress had not been cast. She ac- 323BC after conquering Ptolemies marry their
cused Gadot of cultural imperialism. much of the known sisters. Cleopatra
“Your country steals Arab land & you’re world, his empire was married her brothers
stealing their movie roles,” she wrote. divided between his four before being seduced by
Soon the argument devolved into a senior generals. Ptolemy Roman charm.
debate over the precise ethnicity of got Egypt, and his Whether that makes
Cleopatra, the ruler of ancient Egypt, descendants, mainly Gal Gadot suitable to
and whether there was anyone at all called Ptolemy for boys play her depends on how
who was qualified to play her in a film. and Cleopatra for girls, far we wish to assert the
Gadot, 35, described Cleopatra’s ruled for three centuries. idea of a “Mediterranean
story as one she had “wanted to tell for But Cleopatra VII — look”. The question of
a long time”. The actress was widely lover of Julius Caesar what the ancients
credited with reviving the time-worn and Mark Antony, “were”, when judged by
franchise of Wonder Woman in 2017 adapted by Shakespeare, modern assessments of
and turning it, despite the outfits, into a Elizabeth Taylor and Sid nationality, race and
feminist action film. James — was about as even language, is one of
Patty Jenkins, that film’s director, will similar to an Athenian the most contested areas
direct the new Cleopatra and the script debating in the agora as of historical study.
will be written by Laeta Kalogridis, a a medieval English A more interesting
screenwriter of Greek descent who monarch to a modern MP. question than what
worked on the 2004 film Alexander. The Ptolemies adapted Cleopatra looked like is
Egypt’s ruling class in Cleopatra’s to Egypt, rather than what her subjects looked
time, 2,000 years ago, were ethnic vice versa. Cleopatra like. Egyptians nowadays
Greeks and descendants of identified herself with are regarded as Arabs
Alexander the Great’s general the goddess Isis and was but their physical
Ptolemy I Soter, so this seemed often portrayed wearing similarity to the people
appropriate too. traditional pharaonic who lived in the territory
Gadot said they were going to garb, although millennia ago can be
“bring the story of Cleopatra, sometimes naked or with striking. A popular
Queen of Egypt, to the big screen exaggerated breasts, exhibit in the national
in a way she’s never been seen suggesting that the museum, the head of the
before. To tell her story for the first aggressive sexuality of ancient scribe Kaaper,
time through women’s eyes, both her reputation was not was nicknamed “the
behind and in front of the merely artistic invention. mayor” when it was dug
camera.” She spoke Greek as up because it looked so
Kalogridis declared herself her first language, much like the village
“incredibly excited to get the allegedly with the rough headman.
chance to tell the story of The role made famous by Elizabeth Taylor in 1963 is to be reprised by Gal Gadot, left
Cleopatra, my favourite Ptol-
emaic pharaoh and arguably me beyond words.” Florida who ran around in a cape pre- at pace, possibly because other Cleopa- actor putting on a German accent
the most famous In an apparent ref- tending to be Diana of Themyscira, tras were known to be afoot. Producers would soon be regarded as outdated.
Macedonian erence to Wonder there’s only a LITTLE pressure here”. for Sony Pictures are said to have con- Many rushed to Gadot’s defence.
Greek woman Woman, who hails The project incited a bidding war sidered Angelina Jolie and Lady Gaga “Gal comes from a similar coast,” wrote
in history”. She from the mythical between studios, according to Deadline for the title role in their own film. one commentator. The writer Michael
added: “Never Greek island of Hollywood, which was the first to report Yet the Gal Gadot Cleopatra has ar- Dickson, revisiting the Wonder
thought I’d have Themyscira, she that a deal had been agreed over the rived in an era when portraying people Woman theme, protested that Gadot
the opportunity to said that “for the weekend. Paramount was said to have from another place has become more was qualified to play a Greek because
tell a story like this, withh little Greek girl beaten Warner Bros, Netflix, Universal complicated. Last year the actor Ralph “everyone knows” she “is from the
women who have inspired from central and Apple and planned to make the film Fiennes said he thought that a British Greek island of Themyscira”.
Look of love is remarkably close to what we see in mirror
Tom Whipple Science Editor people, spotted the similarity between different stages. Her study, published in websites have galleries of couples with because of incest,” Ms Tea-makorn
husbands and wives. “It was a curious Scientific Reports, used portraits of titles like, “celebrity ppaarrttnneerrss ssaaiidd.. SSeevveerraal explanations have
Opposites do not attract, at least when question I had,” she said. “I had noticed more than 500 couples, taken early in who could be siblinggss””.. bbeeeenn ppuut forward for why,
it comes to faces. From Brad Pitt and that couples so often look alike.” their marriage and then between 20 This points to tthhee ddeessppiitte the incest risk,
Jennifer Aniston to Benedict Cumber- Michal Kosinski, her supervisor, told and 69 years later. clear genetic disadd-- ppeeoopple are drawn to
batch and Sophie Hunter, many her about a theory in psychology that Then, she used an algorithm to assess vantages to dating tthhoose who look like
couples seem to look oddly similar. being together causes the appearance similarity and separately asked volun- someone who tthhem. “The first is that
Researchers have shown that this is of couples to merge — as they eat the teers to do so, presenting them with a looks like you. ppeeople tend to like
not mere chance — people really do same diet, live in the same environment range of different faces so they did not “Even though you tthhings they are
choose romantic partners who look like and even, perhaps, laugh a similar know which were the couples. might want to ffaamiliar with, and we
them. However, a long-held theory that amount. To her surprise, there was no sign at select someone ggrrow up with people
couples, like dogs and their owners, Ms Tea-makorn decided to investi- all of couples converging in terms of not too dissimilar, lloooking like our-
grow to become more similar did not gate by using computer algorithms, looks, but there was clear evidence that you don’t want sseellves,” she said.
stand up to scrutiny. hoping to characterise which bits of they started off more similar than you them too similarr,, ““AAnnother is that, in gen-
Pin Pin Tea-makorn, a PhD student couples’ faces converged. would expect by chance. People eerraall,, organisms tend to
from Stanford University, carried out To get her data, she trawled wedding appeared to be choosing partners just Benedict Cumberbatch sseelleecctt aa mate who is pretty
the research after mentioning to her anniversary announcements in papers, like them. One paradox is highlighted and Sophie Hunter are ssiimmiillaarr ttoo mmake sure they are
supervisor that she had, like many to find pictures of the same couples at by some anecdotal observations. Many particularly well matched nnoott mmaattiinngg wwiitthh a different species.”
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Worshippers fall 20%
The number of people attending
Church of England services has
fallen by about 20 per cent in the
past decade. Figures collected
before the coronavirus pandemic
put the church’s total
“worshipping community”,
counting all those who attended
church at least once a month, at
1.11 million, representing 1.9 per
cent of the country’s population,
its lowest proportion on record.
Last year the church also
Tunnel vision An avenue of trees is carpeted with fallen leaves in Grovely Wood, Wiltshire. Showery rain is expected across the country today Full forecast, page 53 conducted fewer than 30,000
weddings for the first time.
Warning of electric car shortage Premature babies
If a mother or father has a history
of mental health problems their
baby could be born prematurely,
as companies focus on EU sales according to a study of 267 men
and 398 women by King’s College
London and Murdoch Children’s
Research Institute in Melbourne
in the journal EClinicalMedicine.
Women suffering with anxiety in
Graeme Paton Transport Correspondent 108,888 cars sold in Britain so far this EU target with UK-specific regulations new electric cars without the rules. pregnancy were at risk as were
year were pure electric or plug-in next year that are “at least as ambitious” There have already been reports of long men who had issues as teenagers.
The UK could "run out" of electric cars hybrid models — combustion engine as those drawn up in Brussels. waits for some electric cars. Research
next year as motor manufacturers pri- cars with a battery for short journeys. Transport & Environment said the by What Car? magazine showed that Emergency care failings
oritise the sale of vehicles in mainland They collectively make up almost 9 per measures proposed by the UK were motorists faced delays of at least six
Europe, according to research. cent of sales since the start of the year, actually “much weaker” than those months for some sought-after cars. Shrewsbury and Telford
A study published yesterday said that compared with 2.5 per cent at the same outlined by the EU. This was mainly The Transport & Environment study Hospitals NHS Trust, which is
a failure to introduce tough new carbon point in 2019. due to differences in the way the aver- said: “Supplies of electric vehicles to the the subject of an inquiry into the
dioxide emissions targets would give The increase has been mirrored age weight of new cars was calculated UK are likely to dry up. If the regulation death or serious harm of mothers
motor manufacturers “no incentive” to across the European Union. combined with more generous count- is not passed by parliament there will be and babies in its care, has been
sell green vehicles in Britain. Yesterday’s study said the rise was ing of pure electric cars within the no regulatory incentive to sell [electric fined £4,000 for failings at its
The research by Transport & Envi- partly down to new targets introduced system, it said. vehicles] in the UK at all.” accident and emergency
ronment, the Brussels-based campaign by the EU that incentivise the sale of It said that the “cumulative effect” of A Department for Transport spokes- department. The Care Quality
group, said that without new regula- vehicles with low CO emissions. the change will be that a fifth fewer man said: “The assertion that the UK is Commission said that it had
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tions overall sales of electric cars in the The targets, which are being phased electric vehicles could be sold in Britain going to run out of electric vehicles is failed to triage patients within
UK could drop by as much as a fifth in before being implemented in full next year than would be expected if the absurd. We’re committed to supporting 15 minutes of arrival.
next year. It said that companies would from next year, require manufacturers EU target had been maintained. the switch to greener transport, which
be encouraged to sell a far higher share to sell cars with total average emissions Sales could fall even further if the is why we’ve invested £2.5 billion as part Police ‘sex assault’ case
of vehicles in the European Union to of 95g of CO per kilometre. This is government’s new CO regulations are of our drive to end the sale of new petrol
2 2
avoid crippling fines. down from 122.4g last year. Companies not introduced in the next few weeks, it and diesel cars and vans by 2035 or The Crown Prosecution Service is
The conclusions were made despite a can be heavily fined for failing to hit the was claimed. The report called for a earlier. We will shortly be laying to consider whether to charge
recent rise in registrations of new targets. The measures apply to Britain decision on the new regulatory regime legislation to set CO targets, which will two police officers over an alleged
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battery-powered vehicles. during the Brexit transition period. to be made by the end of the month, incentivise manufacturers to reduce sex attack at a chief constable’s
Latest industry figures show that Ministers have pledged to replace the adding that the UK “could run out” of emissions for new cars and vans.” leaving party last year. Chief
Superintendent Mark Warrender,
Gwent police head of CID, was
Commons staff ‘failed’ by service to tackle bullying suspended after a complaint from
a female officer; Assistant Chief
Constable Marc Budden was
suspended for alleged misconduct.
Esther Webber had post-traumatic stress disorder not exactly sexual harassment is it?” already left — about a seventh of the
diagnosed this year after only six weeks and suggested that it was not worth her total cohort. Smiths’ first demo tape
The independent complaints system to of working with a Labour MP, during registering a complaint. She said: “At Some users of the scheme said they
deal with bullying and harassment in which time she said that she was shout- that point I was so upset and exhausted had been treated well once their com- The first demo tape the Smiths
parliament has been accused of failing ed at, belittled in front of colleagues and I didn’t pursue it. I feel like I was failed plaints had progressed from initial con- recorded in 1983 for their debut
staff at Westminster after The Times had her work put in the bin. at my most vulnerable point.” tact with the service to an investigator. album has been sold for £3,840.
discovered numerous problems with She requested counselling after con- A former member of Commons staff A House of Commons spokesman Geoff Travis, owner of Rough
the service. tacting the Independent Complaints related in almost identical terms that said: “There is zero tolerance for abuse Trade, the record label, put the
Parliamentary workers have been and Grievance Scheme but received she had not received any mental health or harassment in parliament. The be- cassette tape up for sale. It
given incorrect advice after contacting none and was incorrectly told that she support after requesting it from the haviour code makes clear the standards contains studio demo versions of
the helpline and discouraged from pur- had to lodge a complaint with the scheme. of behaviour expected of everyone in tracks on the band’s self-titled
suing their complaints, according to Labour Party as well. Analysis by this newspaper shows parliament. We are genuinely sorry to debut album. Omega Auctions
testimony from those who have tried to When she met officials from the that at least 52 staffers who joined the learn that some people who have used had given it a pre-sale estimate of
seek help. One woman in her twenties party, they allegedly told her: “Well, it’s December 2019 intake of MPs have the [scheme] have raised concerns.” just £250.
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Presenter ‘laughed as he groped woman’
Kaya Burgess event. “She shook his hand and John Leslie added at the end of his interview: “I After a lunch-break, the court was
explained who she was,” she said. “He have not attacked or assaulted anyone, told that one juror was unable to
leaving court
The former Blue Peter presenter John smiled back and, without saying you know, ever.” continue. The jury was discharged and
yesterday. He
Leslie laughed as he allegedly grabbed anything further, grabbed both of her Ms Ledward said of Mr Leslie: “He the trial will restart tomorrow morning
is charged with
a woman’s breasts with both hands breasts with both of his hands and denied that he did any such thing and if to give time for the jury area to be sani-
assaulting a
shortly after arriving at a Christmas laughed, looking directly at her as he there was any unwanted contact tised before a new jury is selected. Social
woman at a
party in the West End in 2008, a court did so.” between them it must have been acci- distancing measures were in place.
party in 2008
was told. Ms Ledward added: “This went on, by dental.” Judge Deborah Taylor gave the press
Mr Leslie, 55, appeared at Southwark her estimation, for about three seconds. Referring to the complainant’s deci- permission to report on what had been
crown court yesterday to deny one The prosecution say this was clearly no sion to report the allegation to police in said in court because it would be repeat-
charge of sexual assault over the accidental touching but a quite deliber- 2017, Ms Ledward said that the woman ed “verbatim” when the trial restarted.
alleged incident at a nightclub. ate sexual assault and that the defen- said to have seen her friend shortly did not feel her report would have been Mr Leslie arrived at court wearing a
The alleged victim has said she told dant laughed again and walked off as if afterwards with a “stunned look on her taken seriously at the time because of a grey suit, a flat cap and a facemask.
other people at the party at the time what he had done was completely face”. The court was told that the “different attitude” towards such inci- After leaving Blue Peter in 1994 he went
and reported the allegation to police in acceptable and not something anyone alleged victim “immediately told her dents 12 years ago. “In recent years, on to present Wheel of Fortune and This
2017 after the emergence of the was going to challenge him on. friend that the defendant had grabbed other victims of sexual assault by high- Morning and has since worked for
#MeToo movement. “The young woman was stunned, her breasts” and also told others. profile names have come forward as Radio Forth in Scotland and as a prop-
Jocelyn Ledward, for the prosecu- shocked and spoke to people about the In March 2018 Mr Leslie was inter- part of the MeToo movement,” she said. erty developer. His father, Les Stott,
tion, said that the complainant had in- incident at the time.” viewed under caution about the alleged “She began to feel more angry about was in court during the first day of the
troduced herself to Mr Leslie, whose A friend of the complainant, who did incident. He was said to have answered what she had experienced and decided trial, which is expected to last three or
full name is John Leslie Stott, at the not witness the alleged incident, was “no comment” to all questions but to speak to the police.” four days.
DESIREE NAVARRO/GETTY IMAGES
Phil Collins and Orianne Cevey married in 1999. Now she
is said to be refusing to leave the musician’s Florida home
Separate lives after Thomas Bates were in secret. Phil left the
married on August 2 at US in the first week of
Collins’s ex remarries the Graceland Wedding September after
Chapel. The venue’s learning about the
offers include a £150 marriage. Orianne has
package featuring locked herself in the
“Elvis” escorting the property in Miami. She
P
hil Collins’s pair were married in bride down the aisle. has changed the access
reconciliation 1999 in a ceremony Ms Cevey has codes. You could not
with his attended by Sir Elton allegedly remained in make it up.
former wife John and Eric Clapton Collins’s home, a “Orianne had told
has ended after and divorced in 2008. £25 million beachside Phil she was going back
he discovered she had Ms Cevey remarried but mansion overlooking and forth to Las Vegas
secretly married a she and Collins resumed Biscayne Bay, and is said on business. She appears
businessman 15 years their relationship in 2015. to have changed the to have got married on
her junior (David Brown In August, however, security access codes. one of those trips.”
writes). Ms Cevey, 46, married Collins’s lawyers gave Collins is believed to
The 69-year-old Thomas Bates, 31, in Las her until last night to have travelled to London
Genesis drummer, who Vegas after saying she leave the property or he for rehearsals ahead of a
paid a record £25 million was going away “on would begin legal action Genesis tour next year.
divorce settlement to business”, a source close to evict her. Ms Cevey’s lawyer,
Orianne Cevey, is now to Collins told The The source said: “He Frank Maister, said: “We
threatening to evict her Times. Marriage records was devastated when he will deal with Mr Collins
after she allegedly for Clark County, which found out that she had in the courthouse, not
refused to leave his covers Las Vegas, show been seeing this young the gossip column.”
mansion in Miami. The that Orianne Collins and man and then married Robert Crampton, Times2
Policeman killed lover who texted his wife about affair
Will Humphries had “at least two” other flings and her marriage and the affair appears to have had a barbecue planned that afternoon
Southwest Correspondent own marriage was “falling apart”. been falling apart. Claire, it seems, was but the officer left, telling his wife he
Brehmer, who allegedly murdered threatening on that Saturday after- was dropping into work and picking up
A married police officer murdered his Mrs Parry outside the Horns Inn in noon to reveal their long-standing steaks. He went via work to meet Mrs
lover of ten years after she used his West Parley, Dorset, on May 9, argues affair to this defendant’s wife. As they Parry at the pub just before 3pm.
phone to send a text message to his wife that he was “simply robustly trying to sat together an argument ensued, Mr Smith said that after the killing
saying “I’m cheating on you”, a court get her out of the car”. He denies culminating in this defendant stran- the “enormity” of what Brehmer had
was told yesterday. murdering her but has admitted a gling to death Claire. An act of murder.” done dawned on him and CCTV cap-
PC Timothy Brehmer is alleged to manslaughter charge. Mr Smith said that Mrs Parry had tured him walking to the pub car park’s
have attacked Claire Parry in his own Richard Smith, QC, for the prosecu- managed to take hold of Brehmer’s Claire Parry had argued with Timothy entrance and sitting down. It was there
car within minutes of her sending the tion, said that Mrs Parry, a mother of phone during the argument and once Brehmer in his car before her death that a family riding bicycles spotted
message, after she had discovered that two, had created a fake Facebook the text had been sent to his wife, who Brehmer, with cuts to his arms, and the
he had been meeting other women profile to speak to a police officer, Kate was at a family barbecue, he suffocated given conflicting explanations to the emergency services were called.
for sex. Rhoades, days before her death and was her as “the calamity was upon him”. police, first claiming that Mrs Parry had Mr Smith said: “He thought that
Brehmer is accused of throttling Mrs told Ms Rhoades had had an affair with Mrs Parry was left lying unconscious stabbed him and later claiming that he things were coming to an end in his life
Parry, a nurse married to another police Brehmer in 2011-12. Ms Rhoades told “part in and part out” of Brehmer’s Cit- was “suicidal” and had stabbed himself. and he was going to commit suicide.
officer, with such force that he broke a Mrs Parry she “had not appreciated he roen C1 and he allegedly began cutting The court was also told that Brehmer ‘My life is ruined, I’m going to kill
bone in her neck. was married” and had felt “taken his arms with a Swiss army knife. Mo- had planned to “emotionally black- myself’, that’s what he said.”
Salisbury crown court was told Mrs advantage of”. ments later he allegedly told a passer- mail” Mrs Parry by taking a length of Neighbours at the pub reported
Parry had been in a “fragile” state when “By that Saturday afternoon Claire by: “I’m never going to see my son again, rope to their meeting and telling her hearing raised voices around the time
she told Brehmer about her plans to was upset and probably angry with the I’m going to prison for a very long time.” that he would kill himself if she told his of the killing, the court was told.
reveal their affair, after learning that he defendant,” Mr Smith said. “Her Mr Smith said that Brehmer had wife. Mr Smith said the Brehmer family The trial continues.
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NNeewwss Coronavirus
Johnson’s simplified tier system
Oliver Wright Policy Editor This includes Greater Manchester and
large parts of Yorkshire and the north- THE NEW RULES FOR ENGLAND
Boris Johnson pledged yesterday to east. London is not on the list at present
“simplify and standardise” coronavirus but Sadiq Khan, the mayor, has sug-
lockdown restrictions across the coun- gested that it could be added this week.
try with a new national three-tier alert There are still anomalies. Mansfield,
Tier Tier Tier
system. in Nottinghamshire, for example, has a
Within hours of the guidelines being rate of infection that is 10 per cent that
published, all too familiar anomalies, of Nottingham but is still in tier-two 3 2 1
exceptions and distinctions between restrictions. However, the town is
legal rules and government advice geographically closer to Derby, which is Alert level
became apparent, however. at medium risk.
So how will the new system work, In these high risk areas people must VERY HIGH HIGH MEDIUM
what will it mean depending on where not meet up with anybody outside their
you live, and will the new system prove household or support bubble in any
to be any easier to follow? indoor setting, whether at home or in a
public place.
very high risk areas
This means that it will be illegal for
At the moment only the Liverpool city people to visit each other in their own Household No separate households No separate households No more than six people
region, which is recording up to 1,000 homes but they can meet in a garden. mixing can gather either indoors or can gather indoors either can gather together either
new coronavirus infections a day, has It also means that they will not be
outdoors in a private in a home, pub or indoors and outdoors or in
been placed in the highest risk category able to meet a friend for a drink in a pub
but other parts of the country could — unless they live with them. However, residence or outdoor restaurant unless they are pubs and restaurants
soon follow. unlike very high risk areas they could seating area of a restaurant in a support bubble
In such areas pubs and bars must shut still meet up to six friends for a drink in or other venue. The rule of together. Groups of six can
their doors and no one can meet any- a pub beer garden (weather permitting, six applies to parks still meet outdoors
one outside their household or support of course).
bubble. Another distinction with very high
This means that it will be illegal for risk areas is that staff who work for pubs Pubs and Bars and pubs not serving Pubs and restaurants can Pubs and restaurants can
people to visit each other in their own that decide to shut because the new restaurants a full food menu must remain open, but only remain open but are not
homes or gardens or any other indoor rules make their business uneconomic close. Customers will only individual households are allowed to serve groups
or private out- will not be
door setting. eentitled to the be allowed to consume able to sit together. of more than six people
However, ggovernment’s alcohol with food Subject to 10pm curfew together. Subject to 10pm
restaurants nnew wage curfew
will remain ssuubsidy
open and ssccheme. This
pubs that hhas been
serve “sub- hheavily criti- Travel People are asked not to People may continue to No travel restrictions on
stantial ccised by local
leave the areas apart from travel to open venues people moving around
meals”, such lleeaders but
as a main tthhe govern- to travel for work or for within the area, but are for work or pleasure and
lunchtime or mment has medical need. Those in the being asked to minimise overnight stays allowed
evening meal, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak sshhown little area advised against the number of journeys
will continue announced the new measures iinnclination to overnight stays in other made. No restrictions on
to be able to operatte. chhange tthis.
parts of the UK overnight stays
They will be able to serve alcohol At the moment there are no travel
only as part of a meal and will have to restrictions on people living in high risk
turn away customers who only want to areas, even in guidance. Under the new
Weddings Up to 15 people may Up to 15 people may Up to 15 people may
drink. guidance people can still leave the area
In parks and other public outdoor for any reason and stay overnight as attend ceremonies attend ceremonies. attend ceremonies.
spaces the “rule of six” will continue to well. but receptions are Receptions for up to 15 Receptions for up tttooo155
apply. Wedding receptions will be However, ministers are urging banned at a sit-down meal in a at a sit-down mmeeeaaallll in a
banned entirely but up to 15 people can people in these areas to reduce the Covid-secure environmennt Covid-secure eeennnvvviiirrrooonnnnmmmmeeeennnnnnnnntttttttttt
still attend a ceremony. number of journeys they make and if
also allowed alsoalloweddd
These new restrictions will be put they need to travel to avoid busy times
into law and enforced by the police and and public transport.
local council licensing teams. Areas in high risk levels will have
Employees at any business told to their rating assessed every 14 days.
shut as part of tier-three restrictions Length The regulations will The areas with high The national
medium risk areas
will be entitled to 67 per cent of their of time automatically expire restrictions will have themm regulations will expire
wages for as long as the restrictions This covers all other parts of the coun- after 28 days unless it is reviewed every 14 days after six months and
remain in place. try and is in line with the existing
agreed they should be and could be moved up oorr will be reviewed after
There are a number of anomalies in national restrictions.
the new system. People living in areas All pubs, restaurants and venues that renewed down the tier system 28 days
under tier-three lockdown are techni- are allowed to be open at present can
cally subject to travel restrictions. They stay open but will have to shut between
are being told to avoid leaving the area 10pm and 5am.
except for work, education or if they The rule of six will still apply both
care for other people. indoors and outdoors. This means that
Likewise people living outside very up to six people from different house-
high risk areas are being asked to avoid holds can meet in public and private Quentin Letts one of Dr Whitty’s maps. Lock-’em-
entering them and staying overnight. spaces, but unlike in Scotland and down Whitty seemed jumpier
However, this is guidance rather than Wales children count towards the six. than usual. Kept stressing that
a legal restriction and is unenforceable. Weddings and receptions can take he knew the economy
Leaner, meaner PM
To add to the confusion the govern- place for up to 15 people as long as it is mattered.
ment can impose additional bespoke a sit-down meal in a Covid-secure envi- His partner in pessimism,
restrictions on very high risk areas if it ronment. Vallance, had been dropped
thinks this may be necessary to control Organised indoor sport can continue leaves us all in tiers from the line-up. Rishi Sunak,
the spread of the virus. to take place and gyms can remain chancellor of what is left of
For example in Liverpool betting open. However, the government is the exchequer, was selected
shops, gyms and casinos will also have warning that the rules will be rigorously instead.
to close as they are being seen as a enforced and increased infection rates “Alas” was back, used when
source of transmission, but this will not will mean medium level areas quickly returned to the evening press- talking of death numbers. Also
Political Sketch
necessarily be the case in future tier- moving up to a high risk level. conference treadmill with another making a return: oh gawd, ITV’s
three areas. Some areas, such as the West Mid- set of Covid gradations. After Prof Peston (a mere 45 seconds —
Any area put into tier-three restric- lands, have argued in favour of areas at response stages and colour-coded positively blurted out his question)
tions will have to have those restric- medium risk being able to impose alert levels he now had us in tiers. and Sky News’s Beth Rigby,
tions renewed every 28 days or they will bespoke restrictions — such as banning “Low” was not available. sporting a bob-cut that allows
automatically expire. household visits — rather than auto- Liverpool was very high. her to chew her hair while
H
matically moving up to the high-risk ow would you like your Nottingham and Manchester working. In-flight nourishment.
high risk areas
tier when cases increase, but this has so rump cooked, madam? were in trouble unless they With recent Covid controls
As a broad rule of thumb areas that are far been rejected by the government. Medium, high or very started to behave themselves. proving ineffective, Beth narrowed
in the new high risk tier are in parts of Thunderer, page 24 high? Boris Johnson, Cornwall was about the only her eyes, flicked her locks out of
the country where there are already Letters, page 26 leaner by the day, place coloured pale blue on her chops and asked: “Are people
localised Covid-19 restrictions in place. Leading article, page 27
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NNeewwss
tries to find cure for confusion
Fear is still
The national picture Infection rate for people aged 60 and over
Very high
Cases Deaths Cases per 100,000 population, Sept 30 to Oct 6
High Total UK* 617,688 42,875 the key to
Medium England 526,086 38,061 200+
Scotland 39,959 2,550 150-199.9 lockdown
Wales 30,608 1,673
N Ireland 21,035 591 100-149.9
Newcastle-
upon-Tyne Daily new lab-confirmed UK cases 50-99.9 working
17,540 25-49.9
14,54214,162 13,86415,11612,87213,972
0-24.9
Analysis
Oct 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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Daily new UK deaths hy is Liverpool
76 70 77 87 81 65 50 *chCaonugnetdin tgo orfe mcaosvees has btoepin tgie pr loacf eCdo ivnid t-h1e9
duplication. Numbers now restrictions while
include those tested in all
settings. Source: Gov.UK Manchester
Oct 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 and Nottingham are not (Chris
Smyth writes)?
Manchester The confusing answer to this simple
question illustrates how political and
Liverpool
practical realities are complicating the
Nottingham government’s desire to use its tiered
system to bring clarity to the
Birmingham
patchwork of restrictions. Decisions
on local lockdowns have so far been
made in Whitehall “gold” meetings,
guided by advice from the chief
medical officer and local directors of
Covid patients in hospital in the North West and North East
public health but essentially at the
Key discretion of Matt Hancock.
400 Throughout the summer ministers
Liverpool University
resisted repeated demands to spell out
Pennine Acute hospitals 350 the criteria for these decisions. That
Manchester University 300 has led to accusations that wealthier
S Tyneside and Sunderland areas represented by cabinet
250
Sheffield Teaching hospitals ministers are avoiding restrictions
Newcastle-upon-Tyne hospitals 200 placed on poorer areas with similar
infection rates. While the government
Leeds Teaching hospitals
150 denies this, other cabinet ministers
Wirral University
have become increasingly dissatisfied
100
with the leeway given to Mr Hancock.
50 Rishi Sunak, the chancellor,
demanded a greater say over forced
0
hospitality closures the Treasury
Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct
would have to pay for, while others
20 16 15 12 7 6 10 10
called for a more transparent system
that avoids accusations of political
favouritism. But the health secretary
has been adamant in ruling out a
Infection rates among population in England Regional cases by age group Key
“simplistic” system based on infection
An estimated 224,440 people in England had Covid-19 from Sept 25-Oct 1 per 100,000 population 0 100 200 300 400 500 rates. He points out that some areas
Long-term modelling based Updated model had high rates because of an outbreak
on previous data using data from 0.6% North West North East South East at a single factory or farm and a
past six weeks targeted approach would be better.
Mid-point estimate 60+ 60+ 60+ Nottingham now has the highest
Range eOstffimicaiatle 0.4% 45-59 45-59 45-59 rates in the country at 830 per
100,000, well ahead of Knowsley and
0.2% 30-44 30-44 30-44 Liverpool on 670 and 598 respectively.
Excludes care homes, hospitals But much of this has been driven by
and other institutional settings 16-29 16-29 16-29
university outbreaks, meaning a full
0 0-15 0-15 0-15 closure of hospitality might not be
Apr May May Jun Jun Jul Jul Aug Aug Sept Sept Oct proportionate. Mr Hancock wants to
30 14 28 11 25 9 23 6 20 3 17 1 Sept 10Sept 17Sept 24 Oct 1 Sept 10Sept 17Sept 24 Oct 1 Sept 10Sept 17Sept 24 Oct 1 look at such local contexts. Yet bar
coming up with an algorithm,
combining these measures does not
not followin’ the rules?” Of course without warmth, said “we are all noted that hardly anyone actually jest. This Johnson was a humour- make for predictability.
they aren’t. I walked through Leeds potential vectors”. caught it in a pub. Some misery free zone. “Statesmanlike” Added to this is the political need to
the other night. The pub queues Individuals were not alone in the from Merseyside spoke of Liverpool does not easily attach itself win support from local leaders. And
were heaving. equation. being “under the boot of Tory to Boris but his inner that is even before the question of
Dr Whitty did not want to Mr Ahmad Khan cast an austerity”. Mr Johnson batted that metronome was certainly set to how areas get out is addressed. Mr
demoralise the public. Well, not unimpressed eyebrow down at his away by praising the co-operation largamente. Hancock told Merseyside MPs
too much. “What people are pinstripe waistcoat, a new MP he had received from the region’s Still, the day did bring good news. yesterday that the way out was to see
doing is significantly reducing already rebellious. Are Labour metro mayor, Steve Sir Cameron Mackintosh, infection rates fall. But after months
infection rates,” he said. lockdowners themselves not Rotheram. impresario, is reopening a concert of restrictions in the northwest, rates
Translation: you will continue all vectors — of economic Jim Shannon (DUP, Strangford) version of Les Mis in the West End are many times higher than when
to obey me. collapse? had just done a fortnight in before Christmas. local lockdowns were imposed.
The PM earlier did a two-hour Sir Keir Starmer, QC, wanted an isolation. Mr Shannon is the Sir Cameron told me he has Boris Johnson has suggested that
stint in the Commons. Philip even tighter lockdown. He House’s most persistent attender found the public readier to take the failure of local restrictions is
Davies (C, Shipley) took his deplored Tory backbenchers who and its most insistent talker. risks than was the case a couple of because people became “complacent”
traditional jab at big-statism. fought for freedoms. “The worst “I’m glad to be back!” he months ago. Maybe they were over the summer. With its warnings
Instead of a “blizzard of arbitrary thing would be not acting d jabbered. “My wife and I are still ahead of the politicians. of hospitals filling up fast, deaths
rules” the government should let us ecisively enough,” quacked speaking after two weeks of it but a He urged the PM to sing Let Me rising and the country being back
make up our own minds: that was Sir Keir. third week might have been a Entertain You from the musical where we were in March, the
“what it means to be a And yet Mike Amesbury (Lab, problem.” Gypsy: “Hell is gone and heaven’s government is now trying to make us
Conservative”. Weaver Vale) told Mr Johnson to Two weeks of Jim with no one here, there’s nothing left for you to worry once again.
Mr Johnson opted not to pick a “think again, think again” about else for company: we hold Mrs fear.” A tacit admission perhaps, that it is
fight— Davies bites. But when “the nonsense of the 10pm curfew” Shannon in our thoughts at this Sir Cameron sighed as only an less the details of local rules that
Imran Ahmad Khan (C, Wakefield) on pubs. time. artiste can. “Boris,” he said, “would drives whether people obey them,
made a similar point, the PM, William Wragg (C, Hazel Grove) The PM made nothing of Jim’s make a wonderful Gypsy Rose.” than how afraid they are.
Pandemic meltdown, Times2
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Voters back
virus rules
despite hit
to finances
Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor go too far. Across Britain supporters of
the major parties are equally unlikely to
Voters overwhelmingly back tough say the rules go too far, though 52 per
coronavirus restrictions even if they cent of Labour voters think they do not
have suffered financially from them, go far enough, compared with 37 per
polling shows. cent of Tory voters.
Almost half of voters think national Opinion is similar among men and
measures are not tough enough and women, although there is some differ-
just one in seven thinks measures go ence based on age, with 18 to 24-year-
too far, a YouGov poll has found. olds half as likely as over-65s to say the
While majorities have consistently rules are about right, at 20 per cent ver-
shown support for coronavirus sus 40 per cent. However, more of the
restrictions since lockdown was younger group say the rules do not go
imposed in the spring, some in govern- far enough, at 43 per cent compared
ment fear that voters are insulated from with 39 per cent of the over-65s. Only
reality by the furlough scheme. There 21 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds think
are concerns that the public will turn the rules go too far, compared with
against the rules as unemployment 12 per cent of over-65s.
starts to mount this autumn. In an influential piece for the
However, polling for The Times re- Conservative Home website last
veals barely any difference in support month, James Frayne of Public First,
for restrictions between people who the well-connected opinion research
have suffered financially from the crisis consultancy, urged ministers to “junk”
and people who have benefited from it. current polls because “public opinion is
in a state of total unreality and has been
for many months”.
Q Overall, do you think the current He argued that “voters are on mor- We’re being made and betting shops. But “There is no way forward.
restrictions in your part of the phine supplied by ministers in the form residents were split over If we close and take the
country (that is, England, Scotland or of vast furlough payments and emer- the measures, which will furlough money, that’s not
Wales)… gency support to businesses, tenants scapegoats, say also affect the areas of enough to pay rent and
Go too far 14% and the rest. As such, the public has no Wirral, Knowsley, Sefton, staff, and if we are open,
Are about right 34% sense at all of the real state of the eco- St Helens and Halton. we still wouldn’t be able to
nomy — and therefore no sense what- Liverpool’s pubs Conor Foley, who runs make the money to pay
Don’t go far enough 42% ever of the trade-offs the government is two pubs, believes that the rent and staff. Either way,
Don't know 10% making between public health and people and businesses of we are backed into a
public finances. People will always fa- Liverpool have been made corner, with no proper
Q If restrictions get stricter, do you vour tighter restrictions when they As the rain fell working day, several scapegoats in the new help or way out.”
expect to be better off or worse
off financially? think there’s little direct risk to them.” in Liverpool establishments were system. “It’s been five days At one of his pubs this
The latest polling does not say how yesterday, nowhere near capacity. since it leaked to the afternoon, the
Better off 7%
bad people expect the economy to get, parts of the With the city having been newspapers and we’ve Dispensary, track and
No difference 52% but does find that only 7 per cent expect city centre put on the “very high” spent the whole weekend trace posters were on the
Worse off 33% to benefit from tighter rules, compared were largely deserted Covid-19 alert level, tier not knowing whether we walls and door, staff wore
with 33 per cent who expect to become (Charlotte Wace writes). three restrictions coming are going to shut down, masks, tables were spaced
Don't know 7% worse off. Half of those expecting to be Even as 5pm came and in tomorrow will bring what to order in, and how and hand sanitiser was
Source: YouGov. 1,725 GB adults surveyed, Oct 8-9, 2020 better off think current rules do not go went, with the end of the the closure of pubs, bars to staff rotas,” he said. available. “We’ve done
far enough, compared to 41 per cent of
Half of voters say that restrictions those expecting to lose out financially.
Doctor describes ordeal caring
have made no difference to their family The poll also finds majority support
finances, but 31 per cent say they are for the 10pm curfew, with 53 per cent
worse off and 16 per cent better off. supporting it and only 34 per cent op-
Only 17 per cent of those who are posed. MPs from all main parties have
worse off say restrictions have gone too questioned the evidence behind the Charlotte Wace for him at home. “I was checking his ox- Jake Berry, MP
far, relatively similar to the 12 per cent scheme and warned that it will drive Northern Correspondent ygen levels and they tipped below the
of those who are better off saying the pubs and restaurants out of business threshold that I and my GP had decided Comment
same. Among both groups, 44 per cent while pushing drinkers towards A northern GP has said that she feared was the time I should send him to hos-
say the measures do not go far enough. unregulated house parties. her husband would die of Covid-19 as pital. But they only just tipped below
M
Some 39 per cent of those who have However, only 31 per cent of Tory she watched over him for 36 hours. that and hung around there.” y colleagues and I in
benefited financially say the rules are voters oppose the measure, with 61 per Aiming to raise awareness of the She had to decide if she should send the north of England
about right, compared with 30 per cent cent in favour, while Labour supporters threat of the coronavirus, Fiona Ford, him into hospital, weighing up whether have been clear for
who have lost out. are more evenly split with 44 per cent from Hyndburn, Lancashire, warned of the stress of being in a locked-down weeks that the
People living in local lockdown backing it and 40 per cent opposed. the “frightening and isolating” experi- hospital with a heart condition risked complex and ever-
regions of England are also more Boris Johnson defended the 10pm ence that patients and families could more harm. “I watched very, very care- changing rules were unsustainable.
supportive of tougher restrictions, with curfew yesterday as “an obvious place face. fully and it started to go up again — I In large parts of the north, people
47 per cent saying the rules in their area to make a difference”, saying that She said she caught the virus in was basically propped up in bed next to could not understand what rules
do not go far enough, compared with people needed to show “common March, when there were “five days I him, checking him frequently,” she said. they were supposed to be following.
34 per cent in the rest of England. Only sense” on leaving pubs. didn’t remember because I was so ill”. “If we have to monitor people at That’s why I welcome the prime
9 per cent of voters in areas of England While Labour has so far not opposed She said she had not regained her sense home, it’s going to be very frightening minister setting out a national
not subject to local lockdown think the government’s restrictions, Mr of smell. and isolating for them,” Dr Ford, chair- system that is clear, proportionate
restrictions go too far, according to Johnson has faced opposition from the She tried to stay a safe distance from woman of the East Lancashire Alliance and simple and will be applied and
polling of 1,725 adults carried out on right of his party. Philip Davies, Tory her husband, who has heart disease, but of Primary Care Networks, said. “We’re disapplied using local data and local
Thursday and Friday. MP for Shipley, yesterday criticised a he contracted it as she was starting to getting so many positive results coming intelligence. Northern colleagues, I
In Scotland opinion is more evenly “constant blizzard of arbitrary rules recover and his oxygen levels fell through to the surgeries now that we am sure, will support this as it leaves
split with 29 per cent saying the rules do that will serve only to collapse the eco- dangerously low. “The worst thing for just have not got the capacity to follow behind a feeling of the north being
not go far enough in their local area, nomy and destroy businesses and jobs”. me was feeling that I was going to lose up every single one now. And you never treated less favourably than other
compared with 23 per cent saying they Rachel Sylvester, page 23 my husband with it,” she said. She cared know who will be in that group.” areas with similar infection rates.
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Eleni Courea Political Reporter Analysis
The effort to streamline lockdown rules
W
has exposed a power struggle between hy, asked five
local and central government, with Manchester
some local leaders resisting attempts to Labour MPs in a
introduce the toughest restrictions in letter yesterday,
their areas. are we looking at
Directly elected mayors lack the closing pubs and restaurants?
power to decide coronavirus measures Hospitality settings, “constitute a
in their areas, but the government is very small proportion of infection
unwilling to introduce tough lock- rates”, they said (Tom Whipple
downs without the support of local and Chris Smyth write).
leaders. Local authorities are resisting Transmission, as Andrew
attempts to move different parts of the Gwynne, Labour MP for Denton
country with significantly different & Reddish, also points out is
infection rates into the same lockdown “happening in the home setting”.
People in Liverpool tiers. They are also calling for more What then is the rationale
made the most of financial support for businesses in behind the plans? The simple
the final weekend areas with stricter restrictions. answer is that you can’t shut
before the new The government is offering local down households, but you can
restrictions. The leaders more powers over NHS Test shut down pubs. There’s only so
city was quieter and Trace and decision-making input much leeway for keeping the R
yesterday, above, in an attempt to pacify concerns. infection rate down, and we have
and there was a already exceeded it.
sombre mood at metro mayors The prime minister is adamant
the Rubber Soul These directly elected mayors include: that he will not shut down
bar, right, as Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater schools, and the chancellor is just
drinkers watched Manchester; Dan Jarvis, an MP and as against a wider closure of
the prime mayor of Sheffield City Region; Steve workplaces. As a presentation to
minister’s Rotheram of Liverpool City Region; MPs bluntly put it last week,
announcement Jamie Driscoll of North of Tyne; Ben “the government has prioritised
Houchen of Tees Valley; Andy Street of keeping education and work
the West Midlands; James Palmer of settings open . . . That leaves only
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; a small number of settings where
and Tim Bowles of the West of England. government can act to reduce
The mayors have no power to transmission”.
determine their local coronavirus Reopening universities may
response but have been promised more have driven up cases, but now the
input into the toughest restrictions and students are back — spreading
more control over the NHS Test and and amplifying the virus among
Trace system. themselves — the worst thing we
As part of the new three-tier lock- could do is send them home. In
everything since day one,” “It’s been like this since questioned whether the mayor of the Liverpool down system, local leaders in the areas this world of bad options, the
he said. “They are the new restrictions, new measures went far city region, acknowledged with very high infection rates will nego- decision has been made that a
targeting institutions especially midweek,” she enough. “The government action was needed but tiate directly with the government hospitality restriction is the least-
rather than where they said, adding that takings had to bring in the rules had asked for evidence about what measures to take. worst option.
should be targeting, had halved. because they can’t control showing the potential While some measures, such as bar However, there are also
which is vulnerable “I’ve had enough of the this virus,” Steve Murphy, impact of closing parts of closures and a ban on household mix- reasons to believe it might be
people, care homes and police state,” said Paul 63, said. He suffers from a the hospitality industry. ing, will apply in all the highest-infec- effective. It is the so-called
protecting the NHS. MacPherson, 63, a retired lung disease and was He also called for more tion areas, local leaders will now have superspreading events, that we
We’re just being made the security guard standing shielding during the generous financial input on whether to shut other venues are worried about. There has to
scapegoats.” outside a pub on a street lockdown. “I can’t afford support for affected such as gyms and casinos. be an initial household member
Even businesses that corner. “We need to get to get it, it’ll see me off.” businesses, asking: “If it Local authorities will also be given who brings the virus in to the
were not subject to the back to normal life and However, the retired chef was right to have a access to the Test and Trace data and home, where most transmission
new rules feared the save the economy — it’s wanted to see more comprehensive package urged to play a part by deploying volun- happens. Stop the transmission in
impact of falling footfall. driving me up the wall.” support for businesses and back in March, why isn’t teers to knock on people’s doors and tell the overcrowded restaurant — or
Elena Tomosoiu, 36, He added that “we’re up measures to prevent it right to have a them to self-isolate. the bar with an impromptu
manager of the Italian to our neck in students” household gatherings. “I comprehensive package Metro mayors’ broader powers over closing-time singalong — and
Club, a restaurant, and everyone “should think there should be a when the government are their areas vary depending on their you stop the spread in
pointed behind her, where have seen it coming”. full lockdown,” he said. imposing similar sorts of individual deals with the government. households too.
one table was occupied. Other residents Steve Rotheram, metro measures now?” Mr Burnham is the only one with local
powers over the NHS. He chairs a Cov-
id emergency committee to co-ordi- than one local authority area, there are
for husband to highlight threat
nate the local response in Manchester. about two dozen elected mayors repre-
senting single unitary authorities,
mayor of london
cities, districts or London boroughs.
Sadiq Khan is the only mayor to have One high-profile example is Joe An-
There is a legitimate expectation that we will maintain their support. strength of the real economy — that attended emergency Cobra committee derson, mayor of the city of Liverpool,
for areas like Liverpool, in the tier People want to see that measures is, manufacturing and engineering meetings and has more powers than who has accused the government of in-
three “very high” alert level, and will come to an end, and to feel rather than the services sector — other directly elected mayors. troducing measures without consulta-
Greater Manchester and Lancashire reassured the freedoms they have and how as we move past this crisis, He is responsible for the Metro- tion and said its support package would
in the tier two “high” alert level, that given up will be returned to them by this region is still poised to become politan Police and Transport for lead to 1980s-scale unemployment.
the government will help businesses the government quickly. an economic powerhouse and London, both of which have been
hit hard by these measures. The new Northern Research exporting superpower after Brexit. significantly affected by the pandemic.
devolved leaders
The government has a choice. It Group of Conservative MPs will Across the nation significant He has been invited to Cobra meetings
sees northern businesses through to work with the government to come scepticism towards the response to intermittently since March 16. These are: Nicola Sturgeon, first minis-
the end of this crisis or, if they close forward with a recovery package for the pandemic has crept in, which is Mr Khan cannot decide local lock- ter of Scotland; Mark Drakeford, first
because of this tiered system, all the the north, because areas like east dangerous. The government must down measures in London, however, minister of Wales; and Arlene Foster,
money so far spent supporting them Lancashire went into this crisis with level with the British people, share and has been urging ministers to tight- first minister of Northern Ireland.
will have been as good as wasted. economies underperforming against all the data and tell areas how and en them, including by banning house- Public health is a devolved matter, so
That’s why I’m pleased that the a national average. They have, why they enter tiers and leave tiers. hold mixing, before infections rise the government in Westminster can
chancellor has come forward with a therefore, been hardest hit and will We are capable of understanding much further. only make decisions that affect
significant package of support, but need the largest package of support. and spotting trends. That will lead to England. The Scottish and Welsh gov-
other mayors
the government will need to remain On the upside, we saw from the wider support for these difficult but ernments and the Northern Ireland
light on its feet to make sure this is recent publication of the Purchasing necessary measures. It has not been Other directly elected mayors repre- executive set their own rules. This has
adequate and provides a continuing Managers’ Index, which measures the approach taken recently. senting smaller cities or regions have led to differences in the restrictions —
safety net for people in the north. the prevailing direction of economic no power to determine local restric- for example, in Scotland, the rule of six
It is time for the government to set trends in manufacturing, that all Jake Berry is the Conservative MP tions but can still exert significant polit- excludes children under 12. The gov-
out a clear map out of lockdown for parts of northern England in for Rossendale & Darwen and ical pressure on the government. ernment has tried to ensure that the
the north. It is only by regularly September were recovering faster chairman of the Northern Research Unlike metro mayors, who head up four nations proceed in lockstep when
communicating progress to people than London. This demonstrates the Group combined authorities covering more introducing or lifting big restrictions.
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Focus on Covid has stopped 3m
coronavirus in brief
Students can
cancer checks, charity warns
get refunds
Students whose teaching is
disrupted by Covid-19 restrictions
Kat Lay Health Correspondent last year, a drop of 26 per cent. “Cancer cancer after screening in August, a drop forward, experts urged. Neil Smith, and who are ill-served by online
services already needed drastic of 82 per cent on last year. Cancer Research UK’s GP for Lanca- lectures and seminars will have a
About three million people have improvement before Covid-19 hit,” The government has set a target for shire and South Cumbria Cancer case for demanding fee refunds, a
missed cancer screenings since March, Michelle Mitchell, the chief executive three quarters of cancers to be Alliance, said doctors’ surgery doors university leader has said.
according to Cancer Research UK. of Cancer Research UK, said. diagnosed early — at stage one or two might be closed to walk-ins but that did Dame Nancy Rothwell, vice-
The charity has urged hospitals to “Cancer survival in the UK lags be- — by 2028. Ms Mitchell said that was not mean that they were not seeing chancellor of the University of
keep services running while treating hind comparable countries — Ireland, unlikely to be met “without significant patients. Manchester and chairwoman of
Covid-19 cases to avoid “replacing one Norway, Canada, Australia — but the investment in the workforce and diag- He said: “The biggest thing that I the Russell Group of large
health crisis with another”. pandemic made this worse, leaving mil- nostic capacity”. have noticed is that fewer of my research universities, said that
Cancer survival rates could fall lions waiting for screening, urgent re- The charity called for £260 million to patients are coming forward to tell me demands for refunds should be
because of the pandemic, its experts ferrals and treatment, and we really be spent on the cancer diagnostics about the signs of cancer. They seem judged over the course of an
said yesterday, with undiagnosed lung fear that this will mean poor survival.” workforce in the next spending review reluctant to do so. It is understandable. academic year. If, after a year,
and prostate cancer patients particular- Screening services for breast, bowel and said that outdated test machinery If somebody has a cough they are a universities had not met the
ly vulnerable. and cervical cancer were paused in the also needed overhauling. pariah; they have got to do a Covid test standard of teaching that they had
In a briefing that included analysis of spring as hospitals tackled Covid-19. Lung cancer referrals have been the and isolate for two weeks.” told students they would, then
NHS statistics, the charity said that Most have restarted but women aged slowest to recover since April, with An NHS spokeswoman said: “Cancer such demands would be justified,
more than 350,000 people who would 70 and over who are not routinely numbers still at only 60 per cent of their treatments are now back to usual levels she said on BBC Radio 4’s Today.
normally have been urgently referred screened but can request a mammo- pre-pandemic levels. Urgent referrals and routine screening services have “At the moment what we are
to hospital with suspected cancer gram via their GP are still unable to do for suspected urological cancers, now safely resumed across the country. saying is that you are paying for
symptoms since March had not been. so. In 2018-19, 3,371 women over-70 had including prostate tumours, are at 78 A recent study by ONS and others esti- and getting what is called learning
It also calculated that 31,000 fewer cancer diagnosed after screening. per cent of their pre-Covid numbers. mated that the brief pause in screening outcomes and at the end of the
patients started treatment between NHS England figures showed that People with symptoms that they would have a very modest impact on year if you have not met those
April and July than in the same period only 315 people started treatment for worry might be cancer should come health.” learning outcomes, if we have not
been able to deliver them to you,
then you will have a case.”
Couple left an ocean She said some of the moves to
online learning would stay but
there would always be face-to-face
apart finally reunite teaching, particularly on courses
such as engineering, physics,
medicine and nursing.
A
British student true?’ I started crying as Resuscitation inquiry
and his soon as I saw the car
Canadian driving up.” The Care Quality Commission is
fiancée who Mr Taylor, a politics and investigating whether “do not
were separated German student at Bath resuscitate” orders were used on
for eight months because University, said: “I feel certain vulnerable groups during
of a ban on international relieved, like a massive the early days of the pandemic.
travel have been reunited weight has been lifted.” There have been concerns that
(Charlie Mitchell writes). Although Canada has care home residents had the
Jacob Taylor, 21, was kept cases well below instruction written into their files
weeks into the forced 200,000, they have surged with no consultation. Amnesty
separation from Sarah to 7.8 million in the United International said that it was one
Campbell, 25, when she States. Fearing a spillover, of the most deeply disturbing
had thyroid cancer Canada has imposed some scandals of the pandemic.
diagnosed and began a of the world’s strictest
treatment plan. travel restrictions. £30,000 fine for party
The pair have been After Mr Taylor
reunited after proposed in Toronto Three students have each been
Canada opened airport in January, fined £10,000 for holding a house
its doors last Ms Campbell began party for up to 100 people in
week to planning their Norwich. The party was broken up
extended wedding and a by the police in the early hours of
family and permanent move Sunday. Three female tenants, one
committed to the UK. aged 19 and two aged 20, who are
partners of The dream believed to have been studying
its citizens. It was broken until, medicine at the University of East
culminated in after 132 letters to Anglia, were fined for breaching
an emotional Justin Trudeau, the law on holding gatherings of
embrace the Canadian more than 30 people.
outside her prime minister,
parents’ home and 245 days Game seeks the truth
in Stratford, apart, Mr Taylor
Ontario. was allowed in on An online game to help people
“It was like a hhumanitarian spot fake pandemic news has been
dream,” Ms grounds. “The day launched by Cambridge University
Campbell told after I come out of and the government. The game,
The Times. “I quarantine we’ll get called Go Viral!, takes about five
kept feeling like married,” he said. minutes to play and puts players in
‘Is it finally Hugo Rifkind, page 25 Jacob Taylor and his fiancée, Sarah Campbell, were separated when her native Canada shut its borders the shoes of a purveyor of fake
news. A study in the Journal of
Care homes ‘should give Vitamin D to residents’ Experimental Psychology: Applied,
suggested that such games could
reduce susceptibility to false
information for three months.
Kat Lay taining 10 micrograms. Researchers about who would bear the cost. NHS responsibility.” A report from the Aca-
from the University of Brighton inter- guidance says the vitamin should not demy of Medical Sciences in July said: Ventilator costs jumped
Care home residents should be given viewed four GPs, four care home man- be routinely prescribed because it can “It has been suggested that low levels of
vitamin D to help protect them from agers, a dietician, a falls specialist, two be cheaply bought over the counter, but vitamin D — endemic within the UK, The cost of a ventilator increased
Covid-19, researchers have said. public health practitioners and a senior researchers said a blood test to confirm exacerbated by lockdown and which by more than £40,000 to £50,000
A study of people involved in elderly doctor in elderly care. Only the dieti- low vitamin D levels was more expen- worsen over winter — may contribute in one week during the spring
residential care in southeast England cian seemed aware of the guidance. sive than a year’s supply of the tablets. to susceptibility to Covid-19.” coronavirus peak as procurement
found that none was aware of any care They found that interviewees con- “The pandemic has brought condi- The Brighton research was published teams faced daily price hikes, MPs
home routinely offering the supple- sidered GPs responsible for vitamin D tions in care homes into the public eye. in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. were told. A National Audit Office
ment, despite daily tablets being rec- status and that it was normally only There is an urgent need for action to Professor Sumantra Ray, executive report has found that £569 million
ommended by the government. prescribed after falls or a diagnosis of ensure vitamin D recommendations director of NNEdPro Global Centre for was spent on ventilators as
Public Health England guidelines vitamin D deficiency. can be applied,” researchers said. Nutrition and Health, said: “This re- ministers looked to get 30,000
say people whose skin has little or no Care home staff said they would “feel “A paradigm shift is needed so that search re-emphasises the role of vita- extra machines. Thousands are in
exposure to the sun “like those in care vulnerable to malpractice allegations” vitamin D is understood as a protective min D given the evidence that it may warehouses due to a lack of
homes” risk vitamin D deficiency and if they gave residents over-the-counter nutrient as well as a medicine, and a help lower the risk of Covid-19 infection demand during the first wave.
should take a daily supplement con- supplements and people also worried public health as well as a medical and ease the severity of symptoms.”