There is breaking news from Scotland.

Our correspondents Victoria Macdonald and Gary Gibbon react to the PM’s statement.

In a TV address, Boris Johnson says a national lockdown is being imposed in England.

More than 75,000 people have sadly died from Covid in the UK. Others, like 49-year-old Anabel Sharma,have been left with permanent damage to their health. Anabel was admitted to hospital at the same time as her 76-year-old mother, Maria Rico. Maria d...

With schools across England now facing the imminent prospect of lengthy closures, it’s been a day of considerable chaos in different parts of the country, as councils issued varying advice on whether children should be allowed back into classro...

The leader of the opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, called last night for a nationwide lockdown. We spoke to him and started by asking what restrictions he feels are now needed.

We spoke to Nicola Sturgeon and began by asking whether her decisions today were driven by the situation in Scotland or were fitting in with tonight’s announcement from Boris Johnson.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has imposed a full lockdown across the mainland from midnight tonight. In a statement to an emergency session of the Scottish Parliament, the first minister said schools would remain closed until Februa...

Christina Pagel is a health research mathematician and member of the Independent SAGE group.

People across the UK have begun receiving the first doses of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, but it’s becoming a desperate race to increase the scale and the speed of the vaccination programme. And apart from promises, there are few details...

The prime minister is expected to set out strict new lockdown measures for England, as the government raised the Covid-19 alert to five, the highest setting – warning that health services are in imminent danger of becoming overwhelmed. With lat...

We spoke to the Children's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield and began by asking her what price we really pay for shutting schools?

We were joined by John Edmunds, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called on Boris Johnson to impose another national Covid lockdown for England in the next 24 hours - warning "the virus is clearly out of control".

The UK has reached a new daily record for coronavirus cases with more than 50,000 people testing positive in the last 24 hours.