No 10 is also planning to suspend Sunday trading laws for a year under the plans to boost the economy, the Times report says. The measures come amid growing concern that the UK could see mass unemployment as a fallout of the coronavirus lockdown. "The idea is to then put them all into one big piece of legislation that helps get the recovery going." The UK’s coronavirus death count increased by 357 yesterday as the country’s total number of fatalities soared past 40,000. The total number of UK Covid-19 fatalities in hospitals, care homes and the wider community is now 40,261.

Source: Daily Mirror June 06, 2020 08:19 UTC