people to invent we might we may create or or find some new incredible benefits or it's a kind of jeremy hunt some there from the canadian space agency there in houston jeremy thank you very much indeed thank you there are let's go back to those riots now taking place in many cities right across the usa let's go back to los angeles now and talk to correspond there rob reynolds rob so we know the protests have been taking place there as well just bring us up to date with what's been happening all right we don't have rob reynolds but let's just go and listen to the minneapolis governor he's been he's speaking now listen to what he has to say see opportunities for people to show the best of who we are. and we simply asked for cooperation to help us reestablish order on our streets to make it clear that the force that has been put on the ground is there for the long haul. that this is not a place where violence in his anyway going to step on our dilute the message that we've got work to do around racial injustices we've got work to do to bring justice for george and so please know that we will do

recommendations back in 2017 when jeremy hunt was health secretary jeremy hunt of course now head of the health select committee charged with the interrogating presumably matt hancock. about his performance during this epidemic no we weren't aware and i think some of the issues around planning for an emergency again one of the things will need to see is just how austerity few played into that maintaining big stockpiles are there of pharmaceuticals in which would have been done particularly against the potential of a flu pandemic is one thing also things like p p clearly i think we can say that if you look at the responses that have been made by places like south korea by singapore by taiwan they seem to be better prepared than certainly the united kingdom but also probably most of western europe have also struggled with some of these issues so there's a potentially good there to austerity of course happy b. there's a scandal according to a lot of british mainstream media that the p.p. was out of date so i come back you said austerity is this a class war is it incompetence on the part

i'm sorry, we have a terrible line to jeremy hunt there, but we will have to leave it.rs say they're throwing away vast amounts of food. a survey by the federation of wholesale distributors found many of its members are now facing financial ruin. tarah welsh has more. we've got product here, gone out of date, it's no good for consumption, so we've just got to get rid of it. normally, metro foods in leigh—on—sea make around a thousand deliveries a week to restaurants, hotels and cafes in the south east and around london. but with these establishments closed due to the lockdown, wholesalers are left with goods they can't sell. all that, that you've seen out there in the freezers and the chillers, is stock that is dead money, effectively, cos it's not going anywhere it's not going out into the marketplace and returning revenue. the stock here is packaged for industrial outlets, so it's not suitable for food banks or shops. we've never seen a situation like this before, where things close down overnight, and it's going to put some people out of business, for sure. industry

jeremy hunt. roll—out of a loan scheme for brits stuck abroad. he told mps there'd be a special package to help with costs such as food and accommodation. dominic raab also faced questions about why the government is only now dominic raab also faced questions about why the government is only planning to bring in quarantine measures for travellers arriving in the uk. ministers have confirmed that people will be asked to self—isolate for 14 days and to provide an address when they arrive at the border. those travelling from the republic of ireland or france will be exempt. but mps on both sides wondered if the move should have come in sooner. we've all been locked down, but people have still been allowed to come into our country. why has the quarantine about to be launched on airports been done now, and will it include arrivals by port and the channel tunnel? the reason that the measure is being introduced now is because the advice that we've always had is that there was little point, if any, in int

being asked by, for example, the former health secretary, who now chairs the commons committee, jeremy huntin, it is why we are doing an awful lot worse than germany or south korea ? are doing an awful lot worse than germany or south korea? very interesting there that angela mclean, the scientific adviser, making it clear that she was very praiseworthy of south korea's effo rts praiseworthy of south korea's efforts in this, and jeremy hunt arguing that they had much, much more robust tracking and testing and tracing in place well before the united kingdom, and earlier on today, a couple of the government's advisers speaking to the health committee were saying, it was a problem of capacity at one stage, we did not have testing at scale, and the government working to point out that we have since ramped that up, although the number of tests that we re although the number of tests that were done, just under 85,000 yesterday, still falling short of this 100,000 target. what downing street are saying about that, it was a bit ofa street are saying about that, it was a bit of a glass half full kind

we had jeremy hunt who said, yes, he had jeremy hunt who said, yes, he had clearly broken the lockdowntrigger and so he should resign. instead we have mps going off in the sixes and sevens firing off their views on twitter but there hasn't been any coordinated concerted move to oust dominic cummings so i think the likelihood is that he probably will stay in post and mrjohnson has decided to take the hit, although it could be a very, very damaging hit if people decide they are actually not going to bother with future government restrictions, they will doa cummings government restrictions, they will do a cummings and simply use their own instinct, or interpret the rules in the way they want, and that matters, of course, because as we have learned we may be moving to so—called localised lockdown work communities, individual housing estates, may face specific lockdown is going right back to square one with ia day self—isolations if there is an upsurge in the virus. have a listen to the communities secretary robertjenrick talking about this this morning. the trade—off is a small number of p

friends. just a final one, what i the challenges of getting these tests that quickly questioning jeremy hunt in 2a hours. when you listen to what is john cse, did you think that they are coming back in more than 48 hours? i did not actually listen to how quickly tessa coming back and if they are not coming back, the laboratory should be doing an audit and that exactly why it is not coming back so they can improve the service. the sooner you get the test back, the sooner that someone can stop isolating if they are negative is the point. the current advice is that if you have covid—i9 symptoms, you isolate, regardless of whether you isolate, regardless of whether you have had a test not for days. and then your household for 14 days, which seems to have been forgotten about. even if you have to wait an extra day for a test, you are actually five days better. professor neil, good to get your thoughts. was the fact that everyone can now get tested. thank you, we must leave it there. thank you very much. china's leaders are beginning the drafting of legislation expected to bring sweeping restricti

and i think today you have jeremy hunt who is chairing the health committee this morning. like south korea which seems to have been extraordinary in advance of things. they had testing earlier. they closed it down very early. are we looking at the way they are app is working? are we following the same rules? why aren't we using apps? people have apps now which could join us allup people have apps now which could join us all up to other peoples apps very quickly. why are we waiting? i think speed is quite difficult for some governments because perhaps we are ina some governments because perhaps we are in a democracy, perhaps we are the sort of people who listen to other peoples advice. speed is terribly important in the sort of thing. and it is only when we come to the very end of it we can look back that we can see where we were a fleet of foot and where we weren't. ido fleet of foot and where we weren't. i do think there is anything we can do fast now, but anything we can must be. claire the same headline from the daily mirror, and serious questions from the government. t

today, the chair of the commons health select committee, jeremy hunt, told the bbc the priority shouldalth editor, hugh pym, reports. a drive—in coronavirus testing centre today. essential workers waiting to have nose and throat swa bs waiting to have nose and throat swabs ta ken. waiting to have nose and throat swabs taken. they said it's not possible, they took our temperature yesterday. we went online to do a test on google and it took me to a government website where i got the link direct, today, i booked it two hours ago. the process of booking tests a nd hours ago. the process of booking tests and having swabs taken seems to be working relatively smoothly. the results should be back within 72 hours. but we are hearing some reports of people waiting quite a lot longer. as well as drive in testing their home test kits which can be booked online. 0ne user told us can be booked online. 0ne user told us she waited nine days before her family's results came back but not hers. she couldn't find out what happened and she couldn't rebook will stop my anxiety levels were raised, i felt dis

the head of the uk health select committee jeremy hunt put the numbers to the deputy chief medical officertries such as germany and south korea. it is extremely difficult to compare between countries at the moment. we need to notjust look at the numbers, clearly, but at some sort of rate, so the obvious one would be an age standardised death rate per million population. those are not the numbers that are routinely reported and so again it is really quite difficult to do direct comparisons. i think they are... it would be helpful to look at this information and to check and to continue talking to public health and science colleagues in all of the different countries, particularly where there are significant differences to ensure we understand as best we can. if i remember rightly, i think when the cmo came before the health select committee last time, he highlighted a conversation he had had with his german counterpart, trying to understand the differences in approach and the outcomes in the two different countries. and these remain unclear in some cases. so very important we look at death

should the test results be coming back in 24 hours, jeremy hunt thinks they should.he riskier way to do it as to wait for a test result to come back and then contact trace. the other way is to contact trace people immediately and isolate the contact immediately and isolate the contact immediately and isolate the contact immediately and release them on the results, if a negative result comes through the you release them. that has big economic impact as a well and because of course you could be potentially be putting many more people into temporary quarantine and also asked me play on peoples willingness to accept. if you are repeatedly coming back into temporary measures and quarantine and then being released and perhaps the next time it happens to you you just don't buy to comply and maybe that's the time it really matters. soi that's the time it really matters. so i understand these things are not easy and the best solution to that is to have a test result that comes back very fast, and accurate test results very fast so yes within 24 hours. certainly within 48 hour

scientific adviser making it clear that they were very praiseworthy of south korea's efforts in this and jeremy huntthey had much more robust tracking in testing and tracing in place well before the united kingdom. people hit particularly severely by covid—i9 are those living in care homes. latest figures from the office for national statistics, show deaths in care homes in england and wales that involve coronavirus increased by more than a third in the week ending the 24th april. you can see from this graph that virus deaths in care homes continued to rise even as hospital deaths were falling. our social affairs correspondent alison holt reports. more than a third of deaths and care homes are registered as linked to covid—i9 in the week up to april the 24th. but overall, the number of deaths that homes are seeing from all causes, is much higher than usual. almost four times more deaths than we would expect to see at this time of year were registered and that last week about 280% more deaths registered in care homes above the five—year average net numbers going up and 35% of those mentioned covid—i9

jeremy hunt, thank you for persevering, good to talk to you in the end. psyche. league says things could get very messy if promotion to and relegation from the premier league doesn't go ahead this season. norwich, aston villa and bournemouth are in the bottom three as it stands, and there have been reports that some clubs in the top flight want to play the end of the season without the threat of relegation hanging over them. rick parry has cautioned against that, saying that some lawyers will get very wealthy. he also says his clubs face a huge financial black hole. our aim is to emerge stronger, leaner, more efficient, to have a proper research post covid. we are heading for a financial hole at the moment of £200 million by the end of september, a cash hole that we will need to fill. we need a rescue package, but at the same time we need to address the longer term, otherwise we'll be back into problems in two or three years, so we can'tjust go from one bailout to another bailout, we have to look at the structure and assess it root and branch. the chief executive

was suggesting as a way to achieve this exemption, and added pressure from elsewhere, including jeremy huntmake a change year, all those factors together have resulted in this change of policy, but it is, as you described ita policy, but it is, as you described it a short time ago, a screeching u—turn, nothing less than that from the government and one they have donein the government and one they have done in the face of considerable pressure from the opposition and some of their own mps. jonathan, we can show a tweet now from william wragg, the conservative mp, or one of them, who called publicly for a change of heart from downing street. you can see it on the screen. we are going to take you straight to downing street now for today's daily briefing. good afternoon and welcome to the daily downing street coronavirus briefing. i am joined daily downing street coronavirus briefing. iamjoined by daily downing street coronavirus briefing. i am joined by professor chris whitty, the chief medical officer, and john newton. before i turn to the latest coronavirus data, i wanted to say something. i

we could go on and one last comment, jeremy corbyn, jeremy hunt said dominic cummings broke lockdown? " matt travelling for childcare purposes during lockdown?" matt hancock said he would have to talk to his treasury colleagues before he a nswe rs treasury colleagues before he answers in full and he will look at it. well the government review those fines? no, there isn't going to be a formal review. it's for the police to decide whether or not to impose fines under the law. they have the guidance that we've provided and the national release chiefs have provided their own guidance, which does give officers a degree of discussion no discretion to use their common sense, again reflecting their common sense, again reflecting the fact all of our circumstances are different and families have particular challenges. they are encouraging officers in the first insta nce to encouraging officers in the first instance to explain and resort to fines only when necessary absolutely. in most cases, that's what's happened. dominic cummings didn't break the guidelines. the police haven't chosen, as far

jeremy hunt. thank you, prime minister and good afternoon.e a game changer but is only possible because we've massively ramped up testing. i would like to start by asking why it took until april to introduce the 100,000 test targets even though i first confirmed case was injanuary. jeremy, as you know the difficulties we faced when this virus, with several difficulties and festival this was a new virus and had some properties that people were slow to recognise across the world. it is possible to transmit coronavirus when you do not have symptoms and i do not think people understood that. our testing operation as you know began much earlier. we did have test, track and trace but u nfortu nately we test, track and trace but unfortunately we did not have the capacity in public health england to be blunt, we did not have the enzymes by the test kits. we do not have the volume and neither did we have the volume and neither did we have enough experience to mount the kind of operation that they did in some other eastern asian countries for instance.

jeremy hunt. thank you, mr speaker. tracing. on the number of tests needed daily to service the test entrees, of course it depends exactly how many again and it depends on the relationship between the symptoms and the number of positive cases and there are many more people with the symptoms than there are positive coronavirus cases but the number is falling because we are moving away, how well away from the flu season and at this time of year the number of positive cases, positive symptoms of coughs and of fever tends to fall because other non—coronavirus communicant fever tends to fall because other non—coronavirus communica nt diseases like flu are falling. so actually the reason specific question for an is because a change over time. weekly tests we are looking to put together a plan to make sure we have, we cut in transmission, including the regular testing of the right staff appropriately in the nhs andi right staff appropriately in the nhs and i will write to him with more details and deliver as and when that poli

jeremy hunt, thank you very much. nicola sturgeon...total of 59 people last night were in intensive ca re people last night were in intensive care with either confirmed or suspected covert 19, and that is that disc —— decrease of four from yesterday. —— covid—19. 3408 patients who had tested positive and have been hospitalised have been able to leave hospital. i also have to report in the last 24 hours 29 deaths have been registered of patients who had been confirmed as having covid—19, and that takes the total number of deaths in scotland under that measurement to 2134. tomorrow... let's go to matt hancock in the house of commons. in the uk, 89% of all deaths have been those aged above 65 and from the start we have worked hard to protect those in social care. in early march, we put £3.2 billion into social care, half through the nhs and have three local authorities. we have repeatedly set out in strength and guidance for infection control and support. for anyone who has a loved one living in anyone who has a loved one living in a care