the line from Downing Street em from
various government ministers today all
reading from very very carefully
prepared script was that the Prime
Minister is comfortable he's working on
the red boxes of prime ministerial
business from his hospital bed very much
still in charge of the shop but that's
leading people to say well how can he
both be taking up a hospital bed at a
time like this and capable of running
the country there are other sort of
confusions around as well for a long
time the line about the Prime Minister's
condition has been that he is suffering
from mild symptoms today that wasn't
repeated by spokespeople for the
government and they were talking about
persistent symptoms and that symptoms by
the way use of plural that actually
knocks out something that the Prime
Minister was saying any recently in a
video broadcast when he said he just had
a little bit of a temperature now
implying that the cough had gone none of
this seems to quite add up and it's
possible that it is just the natural
protective air of Number 10 not wanting
to make the Prime Minister look weak or
incapacitated at a time of crisis but on
top of this as well we have a situation
where Dominic grant the foreign
secretary is deputing for the Prime
Minister chairing a committee today but
he doesn't seem to have spoken to the
Prime Minister and that doesn't seem to
be entirely normal so it's chairing a
lot of questions around and I suppose
one of the other questions tonight is we
don't actually know whether the Prime
Minister is going to be discharged it's
quite possible that we are looking at
his second night in hospital waiting to
catch a glimpse of the impatient Horace
Johnson spent the night in San Thomas's
Hospital across Westminster Bridge from
Parliament he was driven there Saturday
night just as 23 million viewers across
all channels tuned in to watch the
Queen's address to the nation
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the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab stood
in for the Prime Minister chairing the
kovat 19 meeting this morning number 10
insisted Boris Johnson was still at work
in hospital and in charge I can tell you
the PM had a comfortable night in
hospital and he's in good spirits he's
still in hospital under observation he's
being given regular updates on
developments and he continues to lead
the government the chief medical officer
himself making his first public
appearance after time off sick with
Kovac 19 was asked if the Prime Minister
might have pneumonia I can give a
general answer which is the majority
that clear majority people who do end up
and going to hospital although they end
up going into a general bed they may or
may not need oxygen and other things and
they don't need to go further than that
but that is absolutely not a comment on
his personal situation which would be
completely inappropriate for me to
comment on it's just a general comment
on how things tend to progress in
hospital shifting language in Downing
Street about Boris Johnson's actual
condition has fed questions ever since
he first said he'd got to Kovac 19 I
developed mild symptoms of the corona
virus mild symptoms became the Downing
Street briefing mantra but not today
when number 10 dropped it in favor of
persistent and symptoms last week he was
shown chairing a covert committee and
cabinet both from isolation all intended
to show he was still doing the job
although I am sequestered here in number
10 seen coming out the door to clap the
NHS on Thursday night
on Friday he pronounced himself well on
the way to recovery but only one minor
symptoms temperature I still have one of
the symptoms of - symptom of I have a
low temperature and soup but number 10
today he said he also still had a cough
the other main symptom at symptom his
doctor advised him to go into hospital
as a precaution to have these routine
tests he stayed overnight and will be
having them today did he look like a man
who actually had mild symptoms I've
spoken to people who watched him in
video conference and said he looked like
he got it what quotes very badly well is
it Walker for me to judge because I
haven't spoken to him every few days but
it's always been via videoconference
Robert genrich's said he'd been speaking
to councils today urging them not to
repeat yesterday's walking up of some
parks I've asked councils to behave
sensibly and exercise their powers
judiciously only consider closing
parkland the most extreme circumstances
where it's proving impossible to follow
our to enforce the social distancing
rules this South London Park was
reopened today to the relief of many
like yesterday they closed it and not
fair if we want to kind of keep it open
like it is today everyone's got to be
responsible with how they're kind of
using it people not need to not have
barbecues in the park don't they they
need to leave it fair like children and
families and people that don't have
Gardens basically
please testing a drone to monitor social
distancing Westminster now has a new
opposition team watching Boris Johnson's
government Labour's new leader Kirsten
has announced his Shadow Cabinet for
those who went into the last election on
jeremy corbyn's Shadow Cabinet team 17
have now gone some stood down many of
them asked to go by the new leader one
of those dismissed called it bad
politics there is a front bench role for
the leader who preceded Jeremy Corbyn Ed
Miliband will shadow the business and
energy brief across the Thames the Prime
Minister lies in a hospital bed
insisting he is still running the
government while Kovac 19 throws up
challenges no peacetime predecessor