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- Keir Starmer zeroed in on procurement failures in his first PMQs as Labour leader. He was in the chamber but most MPs asked questions from home, giving the session a Eurovision jury-style feel.
- A new 500-bed NHS Nightingale hospital in Harrogate is to remain empty as local hospitals manage the outbreak.
- Year 10 and Year 12 school pupils ‘might have lost out so much’ in the lockdown that they ‘need to repeat the whole year’, Sir Michael Wilshaw, a former chief schools inspector, has told Radio Four. Meanwhile, only 5 per cent of the UK’s ‘vulnerable’ children have been attending school.
- A Liverpool medical supplies company says it offered to procure 10 million medical masks for the NHS but received no reply.
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