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  • the line from Downing Street and 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 you both be taking up a hospital bed at a time like this and capable of running the country?

  • There are others of confusions around as well.

  • For a long time, the line about the prime minister's condition has bean that he is suffering from mild symptoms today that wasn't repeated by spokes people for the government, and they were talking about persistent symptoms and that symptoms.

  • By the way.

  • I use a plural that actually knocks out something that the prime minister was saying only recently in a video broadcast when he said, Hey, just had a little bit of a temperature now, implying that the cough had gone.

  • None of this seems toe 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.

  • On top of this as well.

  • We have a situation where Dominic robbed.

  • The foreign secretary is disputing 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 on.

  • 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 is second night in hospital waiting to catch a glimpse of the impatient.

  • Johnson spent the night in Thomas's Hospital across Westminster Bridge from Parliament.

  • He was driven there Saturday night.

  • Justus, 23 million viewers across all channels tuned in to watch the queen's address to the nation.

  • Just now, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, stood in for the prime minister, chairing the cove it 19 meeting this morning.

  • Number 10 insisted Boris Johnson was still at work, in hospital and in charge.

  • I can tell you that 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 Covert 19 was asked if the prime minister might have pneumonia.

  • I could give a general answer, which is the majority, the clear majority.

  • People who do end up.

  • I'm going to hospital.

  • Well, they they end up going into a general bed.

  • They may or may not need oxygen and other things on, 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 was fed questions ever since he first said he'd got to cope with 19.

  • I've developed mild symptoms off the Corona virus.

  • Mild symptoms became the Downing Street briefing mantra, but not today, when number 10 dropped it in favor of persistent symptoms.

  • Last week, he was shown sharing a covert committee and cabinet, both from isolation, all intended to show he was still doing the job well though I am sequestered here in number 10 seen coming out the door to clap the N HS on Thursday night.

  • On Friday, he pronounced himself well on the way to recovery.

  • Would only one minor symptoms a temperature?

  • Alas, I still have one of the symptoms of mine, a symptom of I have a temperature.

  • But Number 10 today said he also still had a cough.

  • Thea other main center.

  • That symptom.

  • His doctor advised him to go into hospital as a precaution.

  • Toe have these routine tests.

  • He stayed overnight, and we'll be having them today.

  • Did you have like a man who actually had mild symptoms?

  • I've spoken to people who watched a video conference and said he looked like he got it.

  • What quints?

  • Very badly.

  • Well, it's difficult for me to judge because I have spoken to him every few days, but it's always been via video conference.

  • Robert General said he'd been speaking to counsel's 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 considered closing park in the most extreme circumstances, where it's proving impossible to follow out to enforce the social distancing rules.

  • This south London park was reopened today, to the relief of many like yesterday, they close it, and I found it a bit not fair.

  • If we wantto kind of keep it open like it is today, everyone's gotta be responsible with how they're kind of using it.

  • People not need to not have barbecues in the park that they need.

  • Thio leave it for, like Children and families and people that don't have gardens.

  • Basically police testing a drone to monitor social distancing Westminster now has a new opposition team watching Boris Johnson's government.

  • Labour's new leader, kissed Armor, has announced his shadow cabinet.

  • Of 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 ben troll 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 or covert 19 throws up challenges.

  • No peace time.

the line from Downing Street and from various government ministers today.

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