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Good Morning. Boris Johnson is giving his speech at the Conservative Party online conference today and overnight it has been reported that he will promise to power every UK household with offshore wind within a decade. Our story on his promise is here.
But Johnson will find it difficult to get the public to focus on an agenda beyond Covid when the number of cases is increasing so rapidly and, in anticipation of what he might be seeing soon, the Scottish Cabinet is meeting today to discuss the tightening. of Scotland’s rules (which are already tougher than England’s). Like my colleague Libby brooks Reports, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s prime minister, and her colleagues will discuss “short and hard hit” restrictions.
Libby writes:
The cabinet will consider evidence that two weeks of increased restrictions could buy time as the NHS prepares for winter.
While insisting that the proposals did not constitute a total lockdown, National Clinical Director Jason Leitch told BBC Scotland that a circuit breaker could delay the course of the pandemic by 28 days.
This morning, the Scottish Sun reports that doctors have been told to expect the restrictions to go into effect Friday night.
Here is the agenda for the day.
9.30 am: The ONS publishes its weekly death figures for England and Wales.
9.30 am: The CBI, TUC and IoD testify to the Treasury of the Commons committee on the impact of the coronavirus.
11.15 am: Michelle Donelan, the minister of universities, testifies to the Commons education committee.
11.30 am: Boris Johnson gives his speech at the Conservative Party online conference.
11.30 am: Matt Hancock, the health secretary, answers questions in the Commons.
11.30 am: The all-party parliamentary group on Covid takes expert evidence on the impact of the coronavirus on front-line care, and on testing and tracking.
12:15 pm: The Scottish government is expected to hold its briefing on the coronavirus.
12.30 pm: A Treasury minister responds to an urgent question from the Commons about financial support for the enclosed areas.
1.30 pm: Mark Drakeford, the Welsh Prime Minister, answers questions in the Senedd.
By the end of the afternoon: Parliamentarians debate and vote on the regulations that impose the rule of six.
Politics Live has doubled as the UK’s coronavirus live blog for some time and given the way the Covid crisis overshadows everything, this will continue for the foreseeable future. But we will also cover political stories that do not belong to Covid, including of course Johnson’s speech, and where they seem most important and interesting, they will take precedence.
Here’s our global coronavirus live blog.
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