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mrjohnson was last seen in public clapping for nhs staff on thursday —— downing street has described it as a ‘precautionary step' on the advice of the pm's doctor. the queen has made a rare television address to britain and the commonwealth — stressing the value of self—discipline and resolve. i hope ihope in i hope in the years to come, eve ryo ne i hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. and those who come after us challenge. and those who come after us will save the britons of this generation were as strong as any. scotland's chief medical officer has resigned, after a police warning for breaking her own advice and twice travelling to her holiday home: the government warns it could step up limits on outdoor exercise if people continue to flout social distancing rules. hello and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are thejournalist and broadcaster, caroline frost and the parliamentary journalist, tony grew. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the times reports the prime minister has been taken to hospital for tests, ten days after being diagnosed with coronavirus. the telegraph says boris johnson was admitted on the advice of his doctor after continuing to have a high temperature. the mail says the prime minister will remain in charge of the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. the paper also has a picture of the queen who gave a special address to the nation this evening. ‘we will meet again‘ is the headline in the sun as her majesty echoed the lyrics of dame vera lynn. the mirror says the queen praised the work of front line nhs staff tackling the spread of covid—i9. her majesty said britain will succeed in its fight against the virus and promised better days ahead, that's on the front of the express. the queen is also on the front
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page of the guardian — it's lead is a warning from scientists that millions of e anti—body kits ordered by the government may give inaccurate results. we are going to kick off. ijust wa nted we are going to kick off. ijust wanted to check. there you are. first of all, we have caroline and tony, caroline can you not to show that you can see me internally as well. delighted that we have got you both. i believe we need a bit more ofa dip both. i believe we need a bit more of a dip that he make deep breath, frisky —— deep breath. all of the news, this was an incredibly busy time for the newspaper. caroline, let us start with the daily telegraph. johnson taken to hospital for coronavirus treatment. what do you think? incredibly busy for the editors across the land. be that the queen would pretty much have the
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scope of the front pages tomorrow, but as it happens, borisjohnson and the last there has been reported to have been taken to hospital in a precautionary exercise because he still has the temperature and has beenin still has the temperature and has been in isolation for ten days. clearly he has not rallied and this is been very much played dumb by downing street but it is the source of great alarm for the government and everybody watching. —— played down. can he be an active prime minister while in the hospital bed? they were reluctant to put this story out there because it would put the queen off the front pages. the foreign secretary will be in charge of the prime minister becomes fulfil his duties. it is unknown when he will be released from hospital and all week there's been concerned
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about the prime minister south. my colleague in the press conferences is been asked about it and a mission in sunday's paper is that he was worse than what they were willing to admit in the statement that put out today strikes me as boilerplate. if it isjust a precaution, why did they not to say that tomorrow afternoon, why did it have to be tonight? and also the prime minister has been unwell for more than a week and should probably take some time off. should probably look after his owi'i off. should probably look after his own health and probably rest up then attempt to run the country from a hospital bed. the government is quite competent and they will continue without him and it comes on the key decisions for the prime ministercan make and the key decisions for the prime minister can make and the constitutionally it's difficult to say how the first secretary of state carry the authority of the prime minister. pm taken to hospital over
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virus symptoms. caroline just picking up over what he said. the government, the prime minister clearly wa nted government, the prime minister clearly wanted to clear the way for the queens message to get through, which was an essence, the state message. but boris johnson, which was an essence, the state message. but borisjohnson, an hour later, and not the queen of the headlines. and to some extent, the queens message is almost been lost if you look at these two front pages. yes, she is across all, the broad streets in the tabloids. but i do agree, in the morning, more people will be talking about the state of the prime minister's health and the queen did every thing right. she talked a very sombre tones about what the country is going through but rallied the spirit in the very su btle but rallied the spirit in the very subtle way, called out to the british spirit where she is qualified to comment and she did everything in our power to be both positive but also bring the gravitas that the situation requires. but as you say, all of the water with the
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news that the leader, the chief executive of this exercise is so under the weather that you continue trying to direct matters from his hospital bed does seem a bit reckless. if anything, hospital bed does seem a bit reckless. ifanything, one hospital bed does seem a bit reckless. if anything, one quoted that he has written too many books on churchill is trying to be churchill we know that churchill, one of his great unique strengths was that he got there so much personal problems to direct the defining war, boris johnson personal problems to direct the defining war, borisjohnson does not need to do that it as tony said, eve ryo ne need to do that it as tony said, everyone who has been ill with this horrible virus, my friend is headed and it only got out of bed on day 13 and it only got out of bed on day 13 and to try to run the country while you're in that state, i would say anyone would say please put your head down for your sake and everybody else's. in america, there is the 25th amendment that if the president is unwell, the president simply assigns all power over to the vice president for the president recovers , vice president for the president recovers, be it from an aesthetic or
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anything. we do not have a 25th amendment, not a written constitution either, model on by. is that a good system to be able to do that a good system to be able to do that that someone can be a prime minister for a that that someone can be a prime ministerfor a few hours that that someone can be a prime minister for a few hours a day or would it be better to have very clear lines of authority in a national crisis is blue i think the issue was also introduced in the 19605 issue was also introduced in the 1960s and open to massive abuse, frankly. the prime minister is the person that can command the confidence of the house of commons. borisjohnson continues confidence of the house of commons. boris johnson continues to have that confidence and even if you became unwell, and continue to have that. the issue is the delicates of that responsibility too. it is not unusual for the prime minister not to attend prime minister as questions or to nominate his colleagues for their responsibility. so our system is robust, i think the only place of which it can become problematic as if the prime minister become so ill that he becomes
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unconscious or is under ventilation. but even then, the system is robust. my only concern is with those issues that only the prime minister can resolve and the question therefore is, and is the secretary of state can he carry the gravitas the responsibility. the daily mirror, interestingly, the mirror decides to remain with the queen. the queens message of hope in the daily mirror says that we will meet again and most people will remember innocently that that is a lyric from songs from the second world war. let us spend a minute on the queen. did you watch the speech and if so, what did you think as your listening?” the speech and if so, what did you think as your listening? i think she adopted just the right tone. in between. the queen always seems to pull this off and it matters as the correspondent said earlier, this is one of five occasions in her left end of the queen is spoken to the nation and so clearly, as everyone is saying, this is an unprecedented
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time and recognise the seriousness of this era that everyone is going to. she is in isolation or self. we know that her sun has been suffering with this virus in the dust touched her personally i think all of that came across. she spoke as one of the people, but also as you say, also managed to rally that create british, or sometimes mythical spirit that we are always taught about and looking to the future, this nation, this generation of people will be remembered as the people will be remembered as the people who were strong. in some of the combination of the queens words and what is happened to in theory are most powerful person today has somehow hit home to these people still going out because obviously, these messages of got to get out otherwise there's no point in conveying them. staying with the queen, urging the nation to unite, we will succeed in better days will return. we are told about a wartime
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spirit and it seems reasonably appropriate for the queen to talk given that she actually served in world war ii. the queen speaks in a very specific way and a lot of people find it very comforting. i think that the speech has been very carefully planned and there's been much discussion over will be the right time for the queen to address the nation, you do not want to do too early or too late. this is what makes the prime minister's condition even more unfortunate because this was supposed to be the biggest of big guns being deployed to try to rally the country and i think that what caroline says about people who have not been properly following the obscure rules that we have, the queen would never condemn them but by the omission, she is sort of everyone telling everyone to pull together.l picture of the queen and also an
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interesting story that would have been headlining the news in a quieter day. scotland, chief medic resigns. this would be funny if it did not have such tragic undertones attached to it. the chief medical officer, who has been part of the enormous national campaign across scotland, taking part in all of the videos to stay at home and observe all the regulations has been caught by the scottish fasting or second home a0 miles of the coast. she probably did not cause any harm, but she is not doing what she preaches and she has been busted not only once but twice. she was wanted by the scottish police and she offered her resignation. but she found her too valuable to basically punish and yet, very soon after a very awkward press co nfe re nce , yet, very soon after a very awkward press conference, she was officially no more. no more the chief medical
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officer. you have to walk the walk these days. the next newspaper. matt hancock, ebay rules or face exercise band. before the queen spoke before borisjohnson, this band. before the queen spoke before boris johnson, this is band. before the queen spoke before borisjohnson, this is the story that almost everyone was talking about. the rules are an exercise band, the antagonism possibility between joggers band, the antagonism possibility betweenjoggers and band, the antagonism possibility between joggers and someone simply wa nted between joggers and someone simply wanted to sit in a park but matt hancock is been very strict there, obey the rules of this event. hancock is been very strict there, obey the rules of this eventlj don't think it ban on exercises the way to proceed. because mary had to make —— a very small are not following social distancing, i think they should be stopping people, they should be stopping people, they should be stopping people, they should be turning them away, and when appropriate, fining people. but there is a really, really fine
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balance to be struck here and it is easy if you've got a garden but it is as millions of people in this country left to go outside for their own mental health i cannot imagine what it must be like to be shut up with two or three small children every day. so turning around and telling people that you're going to ban this, i don't think turning around and threatening the vast majority of the population were trying to do their best to follow the social distancing rules is appropriate with the government to proceed, principally because we do not have the numbers of police that they do or italy and spain trained to force this in a much more robust way but i do think that the targeted police response will be much better. the guardian, its main story, scientists talking about unreliable testing kits. we heard from boris johnson singh testing is the answer and test test test. home antibody testing kits ordered by the government could be unreliable. not
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good news of the government. this is touted as the great game changer in the optimistic boris johnson possible his words and not what they're saying is that the order these provisionally in the idea was that there would be a available online and there be a test for people to just in one swoop in antibody result in either proceed or go home and not matt hancock assigned to admit that this is not the case and they're just not up to scratch and the only take notice of your symptoms if they are extreme enough. cf to be ill enough for it to be recognisable which defeats the point and this is obviously a little bit of a setback. this is not what they wanted to hear. everyone's been talking test, test, test. everyone is mentioning it this is a huge step back. it does feel that sometimes that every day is longer than the previous day. how does it feel to
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you? every day is longer than the previous day but as the day comes, the sun goes down later. these antibodies, this is key to getting us antibodies, this is key to getting us out of the lockdown. we have to have a robust system telling whether or not people of the illness and that's when restrictions can be loosened. but the best scientists in the world are working flat out on a solution to this, so even if the guardian has found a possible problem with these tests, there will be other tests in the queen said we will meet again. thank you both. that is it for the papers. do not forget that you can see the front pages online on the bbc news website. it all there seven days a week at bbc. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you caroline and tony.

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