we can also speak to the liberal democrat co—leader, sir ed davey.ovide positive active assistance to the government, but also being a sort of critical friend, if you government, but also being a sort of criticalfriend, if you like, is that how you would view your own position? yes, totally. i agree with everything that she just said then. and when you come from a press co nfe re nce and when you come from a press conference where you've seen the chief nursing officer of england, ruth may, talk about the fact that two of her colleagues, to registered nurses, young nurses, mothers, have died today in the service of the patient's. then you have to have a sombre mood and you have to get behind the advice of the experts that we must stay at home. so i completely agree with her, and indeed with the government on that. we have to protect our nhs. we have to behave responsibly. this is a deadly virus. it's so infectious, so contagious. and we can all play our distance. and when we go out in those moments we have to, whether it's to buy food or to have exerc

the party's acting leader, sir ed davey, suggested the bonus should be set at £29 a day, similar to auty. disadvantaged teenagers in england will be able to borrow laptop computers to help them study at home when schools are closed during the pandemic. it will be up to schools or local authorities to decide who needs help with access to a computer and 4g routers to help families connect to the internet. an online academy offering pupils 180 lessons every week will also be launched to support remote learning. captain tom moore, the 99—year—old british war veteran who's been walking lengths of his garden to raise money for the national health service, will be the guest of honour at the opening of a new so—called "nightingale hospital" next week. he will appear by video—link. so far he's raised an astonishing £25 million. the money will be used to buy food parcels and counselling sessions for national health service staff, as well as electronic tablets to allow patients to talk to their families. and now the weather with louise lear. hello there. it's a subtle sundae pretty much right ac

talking to sir ed davey from the liberal democrats.brings the total death toll now to 18,100. 0ur health correspondent anna collinson is here. give us a sense of context to these figures. every afternoon at about this time, these figures are released from the department of health, and they cover the whole of the uk. so we have had england and other parts of the uk earlier. and what they are saying is in the past 24 hours there have been 759 deaths on these figures, which takes the total in the uk up to more than 18,000. now, we also saw a big jump in those figures yesterday. there we re in those figures yesterday. there were more than 800 deaths announced yesterday following a bit of a dip at the weekend, which is what we have been seeing over the recent weeks. so this set of figures is a slight drop, compared to yesterday, but as we have been saying, you can't read too much from one set of data. overall, though, the trends we are seeing in the figures is that we are seeing in the figures is that we are going down and this is backed up

let's speak now to sir ed davey who is the acting leader of the liberal democrats.ng in a blame game. there were system errors which we need to get right. that's professor costello. systemic or political errors? we will need to have to look into that. whether it was the system not giving the right advice to ministers or the minister is not listening to the advice properly. we heard scientists and experts say there were warrants the government needed to act more quickly. —— there were someone. professor anthony castella seem to suggest that today. we have to look at that but he is right that at the moment we need to put together. we have a huge crisis on our hands. health crisis, economic crisis. and we have to try it to find a solution together for these problems. we have to try it to find a solution togetherfor these problems. i do think the government has got to really get a grip on the supply and protective equipment. ppe. for health care and social care staff. and we really have to get to grips with testing. the testing numbers are way lower than the government

thank you very much, ed davey... boris johnson will update the country later about the government's coronavirus strategy but warns he won't "gamble the sacrifices away" by relaxing social distancing measures testing is crucial to easing the restrictions but ministers remain under pressure, over their target of 100,000 daily tests by today. nhs leaders call for a new approach. the head of thejudiciary in england and wales says coronavirus could prompt the biggest changes to jury trials since world war two. british airways has said it may not restart its services at gatwick airport once travel restrictions are eased in a memo seen by the bbc. in a letter sent to airport staff the airline said up to a quarter of its pilots could lose theirjobs because of the pandemic. a separate letter sent to pilots said the few services still running from london heathrow could be suspended due to a collapse in customer demand. sally gethin is an aviation industry commentator. good afternoon. good afternoon. given what we all know ab

let‘s talk now to the acting co—leader of the liberal democrats, sir ed davey who joins us from his homepoints, the liberal democrats, i was asking about protective equipment for our nhs and care staff, i heard the doctor they‘re talking quite movingly about how hard they are working with the courage he and his collea g u es working with the courage he and his colleagues to have and also how they are trying to comfort the relatives and patients. so, we do need to give them protective equipment and the liberal democrats have banged on about that but i also asked dominic raab about testing. but if we are going to get rid of these restrictions, if lockdown is ever going to be lifted, we need to be cautious, nobody disagrees with that, but we need to have the tests, they need to be in much greater number, we need to be doing them in the community and we need to be learning lessons from countries like denmark and germany, that you mentioned, which appear to have a better grip on this. the university of oxford professor over the weekend he was saying that they were hoping to get to some tests