Politics

Boris Johnson has said he hopes it will be safe to reopen schools in England from 8 March, as the prime minister revealed to MPs when he intends to set out his plan for easing lockdown.

UK nationals and residents returning from 30 "red list" countries will be placed in quarantine in government-provided accommodation - such as hotels - for 10 days, Boris Johnson has told MPs.

Labour is calling for all teachers and school staff to be vaccinated during the February half-term, in a bid to get children back in classrooms.

The UK government has been urged to change its vaccines policy after a Sky News investigation identified 13 hospitals where elderly inpatients have been denied a COVID vaccine.

A minister has defended the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, telling Sky News that in the future "I suspect there will be things that people will say we did extremely well".