Prime Minister's plane to cost £900k to paint red, white and blue - but No 10 insists 'value for money'

coronavirus lockdown contained no new money, a senior Scottish Tory has admitted. Andrew Bowie said the cash was already budgeted for one day after the Prime Minister’s speech was slammed as a "damp squib" by the SNP and slated by Labour leader Keir Starmer.

five-stage plan for their gradual re-opening.Now, we all know that five-step government re-opening plans aren’t worth the Nando’s heat chart they’re scribbled on. Boris Johnson will happily leap from stage one to stage five before any of the stated requirements are met if it suits him, like pandemic hopscotch.

East Kilbride office of the Department for International Development (DfID). He was responding to a letter seeking assurances over the future of jobs in the town from Conservative MSP, Graham Simpson.Mr Simpson said he believed the merger offered “an opportunity to expand what is done at Abercrombie House” and told the News that the PM agrees with him.Last month Mr Johnson announced a merger between the DfID and Foreign Office (FCO) to create the new Foreign Commonwealth Development Office.

Pitlochry and Aberfeldy not ready for visitors yetThey have been told they will need to wait until insurance claims are paid out until they get their money back.Goodlyburn Primary School in Perth mum, Naomi Sexton, forked out £189 on a two-night trip for her daughter Kaiya that never happened.Primary sevens at the Perth primary school were due to head to Dalguise on March 25 - two days after prime minister Boris Johnson announced lockdown.But despite Kaiya not being able to go, Naomi has not yet

Without a doubt, the way that Donald Trump and his administration has been handling the COVID-19 pandemic response has been horrific. But he’s not the only leader that has done a, uh, less-than-desirable job responding to the global health crisis.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“The Trip” helmer Michael Winterbottom is set to direct a series depicting the U.K.’s muddled response to the coronavirus crisis under Prime Minister Boris Johnson.Producer-distributor Fremantle is partnering with “True Detective” executive producer Richard Brown’s nascent production outfit Passenger and Winterbottom’s Revolution Films on the project, which will have a keen focus on Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care with COVID-19 in late March and

Starmer for coming to the Commons with figures that do not tally with his own government’s record. The two party leaders accused each other of using misleading statistics as they clashed at Prime Minister’s Questions.

ordered all pubs, restaurants and bars to close their doors back on March 20, ahead of implementing the nationwide lockdown three days later.After easing some restrictions late last month, the PM is set to continue to adapt further measures in line with the government’s roadmap out of the coronavirus crisis.

1 - Go for goal The Labour leader started off by congratulating the PM on his U-turn over free school meals after pressure from Marcus Rashford. Starmer didn’t go in studs first though, preferring detailed questions on poverty rates and warnings from local councils, including Tory ones, that they are about to go bankrupt.

hereThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Save the Children surveyed 3,105 parents of children under 18 claiming either Universal Credit or Child Tax Credit during late May and early June.Save the Children and the JRF are calling for a £20 per week increase to the child element of Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit to minimise the impact of the coronavirus crisis on young people.At Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Johnson said: “This is a government that has done everything we possibly can

1 -  Grandparents will be able to hug grandchildren, but only in England.Boris Johnson announced new rules allowing households to create “support bubbles” to give some relief to single people who feel isolated at home as lockdown drags into its 12th week.From Saturday around 11 million people living alone or as single parents will be allowed to “bubble up” with one other household of any size.Anyone in the bubble will be allowed to “act as if they live in the same household”.

The government is dropping plans for all primary school pupils to return before the start of the summer holidays.Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will update the House of Commons later - but it is thought the proposal is no longer considered feasible this morning.Yesterday the government admitted secondary schools in England may not fully reopen until later than September, despite saying Covid-19 is "in retreat" across the UK.Boris Johnson is due to speak with the Cabinet on Tuesday morning,