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Covid-19 update: UK moves to ‘wean people off’ furlough scheme

People eat in between plastic partitions, set up in an effort to contain any spread of Covid-19, at the Penguin Eat Shabu hotpot restaurant in Bangkok (Photo: Getty)
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  • Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer faced off for the first time at PMQs today. James Forsyth has the details on Coffee House.
  • Chancellor Rishi Sunak is preparing to roll back the furlough scheme in July, with Matt Hancock admitting yesterday: ‘We’ve got to wean off it.’ Kate Andrews provides analysis below.
  • Imperial College London’s Neil Ferguson has stepped down from Sage after it emerged that he had broken lockdown rules to meet with his married lover. The Spectator’s politics team discusses what his resignation means for the UK lockdown on Coffee House Shots.
  • It has emerged that 15,000 hospital patients were discharged by the NHS in preparation for the Covid-19 wave, with many sent to care homes.
  • At least 20,000 people infected with Covid-19 arrived in the UK before lockdown, with only 273 quarantined.
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