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Monday, 23 November, 2020

ExplainerBrexit
Brexit timeline: How the talks have unfolded and what happens next
The UK’s transition period — which keeps Britain in the EU’s single market and customs union — ends in less than six weeks
Monday, 7 September, 2020

UK manufacturing
UK government’s reusable gown project fails to produce any PPE
Trade bodies say they believe a domestic supply chain for reusable gowns will not be established
Sunday, 6 September, 2020

News in-depthUK politics & policy
How Downing Street is shaking up relations with mainstream media
Government clashes with the press as it tries to exert greater control over how it projects its message
Sunday, 30 August, 2020

Pollution
All stores to charge 10p for plastic bags in push to end waste
Government has vowed to eliminate avoidable plastic pollution by the end of 2042
Friday, 28 August, 2020

UK politics & policy
UK to review independent watchdog on overseas aid
Part of plans to ensure £13.4bn budget is used effectively after merger of departments
Friday, 28 August, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
Lockdown to be eased in northern England
Some local restrictions to be lifted next week as coronavirus infection rates decline
Thursday, 27 August, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
Test and trace drops further behind target as cases rise
Number of daily instances of virus has increased to levels last recorded in mid-June
Thursday, 27 August, 2020

Liberal Democrats UK
Ed Davey calls on Lib Dems to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ after becoming leader
Former cabinet minister says UK centrist party has ‘lost touch’ with voters and must listen more
Thursday, 27 August, 2020

Coronavirus economic impact
Payments for English self-isolating on low incomes to be trialled
Regional leaders call for increase in level of support for those in local lockdown areas
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Wednesday, 26 August, 2020

News in-depthUK Government
Senior Tories express anger over Johnson policy U-turns
Series of government course changes feed disquiet among Conservative MPs over PM’s handling of pandemic
Wednesday, 26 August, 2020

UK schools
Senior civil servant at Department for Education forced out amid exam turmoil
Permanent secretary Jonathan Slater to leave as Boris Johnson blames results fiasco on ‘mutant algorithm’
Tuesday, 25 August, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
Masks to be mandatory for English senior schools in lockdown areas
U-turn will give secondary heads option of ordering returning students to wear face coverings
Tuesday, 25 August, 2020

UK schools
Head of England’s exams regulator quits after A-level turmoil
Sally Collier to leave after Ofqual was heavily criticised over student testing scheme
Monday, 24 August, 2020

UK politics & policy
UK companies face fines for links to illegal deforestation
Proposed government crackdown would mean avoiding connections via supply chain to threats to rainforest
Monday, 24 August, 2020

UK schools
Boost for Johnson in efforts to get English schools open again
Downing St confident after teaching unions and local authorities say they will not block return to classes
Sunday, 23 August, 2020

UK politics & policy
Tim Barrow to be political director at enlarged UK Foreign Office
Top officials announced for department after merger with international development
Thursday, 20 August, 2020

Travel & leisure industry
Travel operators call for end to UK’s ‘stop-start’ coronavirus quarantines
Frustration as Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago taken off list of safe destinations but Portugal added
Thursday, 20 August, 2020

UK universities
Students are promised places at first-choice university after A-level U-turn
Ministers say some people will have to defer a year to start their preferred course
Thursday, 20 August, 2020

UK schools
GCSE and A-level results improve sharply after algorithm scrapped
Teacher-assessed grades awarded in England after outcry over standardisation system
Wednesday, 19 August, 2020

UK schools
BTec results pulled at last minute as UK exam chaos continues
Vocational qualifications for nearly 500,000 students recalled in wake of GCSE and A-level U-turns
Wednesday, 19 August, 2020

Education
Extra UK medical school places to be funded from state coffers
Move follows U-turn that led to A-level grade uplift
Wednesday, 19 August, 2020

UK business & economy
Rail fare freeze considered to tempt back passengers
Ministers consider scrapping annual ticket price rises in effort to tempt people back on trains
Wednesday, 19 August, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus infection survey to be expanded across UK
ONS to increase testing in England from 28,000 people a fortnight to 150,000 by October
Tuesday, 18 August, 2020

UK politics & policy
Public Health England rolled into new agency to tackle pandemics
National Institute for Health Protection will take in NHS tracing programme and biosecurity centre
Monday, 17 August, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
Dido Harding to lead new pandemic agency for England
Head of test-and-trace programme to chair body formed when government scraps Public Health England