UK coronavirus live: No 10 fails to defend PM being at Tory meeting where social distancing rules ignored

Meeting of backbench 1922 Committee fuels claims that Boris Johnson guilty of hypocrisy Staffordshire school closes after Covid case Manchester Airports Group calls for urgent Covid testing of arrivals UK flip-flopping over quarantine devastates Portuguese tourist industry Pupils with special needs 'forgotten' as English schools reopen Global coronavirus updates - live 2.40pm BST The latest official published R figure for the UK is between 0.9 and 1.1, with the number of new infections somewhere...