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Grant Shapps second Cabinet minister to test positive for Covid

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced she was isolating on Monday

Wales Online

Grant Shapps promises train passengers ‘big improvements’ in timetables

Hundreds of daily services were axed in December and January due to staff shortages caused by the Omicron coronavirus variant.

The Independent UK

Turkey reports daily record of 111,157 new cases – as it happened

Turkish daily death toll highest in four months as cases surge; UK health agency says number of cases each day could be rising

The Guardian - AU

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Labour: Shapps ‘sold bus transformation, but is delivering managed decline’

Grant Shapps described the full amount of money being spent on buses as a ‘record never achieved before by any Government as far as I can see’.

The Independent UK

Ex-transport ministers call on Grant Shapps to act on vehicle safety

New vehicle safety standards become mandatory in the European Union and Northern Ireland from July but will not automatically be used in Britain.

The Independent UK

More passengers to be eligible for flight delay compensation under new post-Brexit plans

Travellers on flights more than one hour late will receive payouts under the proposed changes

Nottingham Post

Travel: Passengers to receive compensation for one-hour flight delays

Travellers will receive compensation for flights delayed by more than an hour under new plans unveiled by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.

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Flight compensation overhaul for domestic airline passengers

‘We’re making the most of our Brexit dividend,’ transport secretary Grant Shapps says

The Independent UK

Transport Secretary claims climate protest action ‘doesn’t make sense’

Grant Shapps says many environmental protesters are ‘anarchists’ who ‘just want to find a basis upon which to take extremist action’.

The Independent UK

'Playing with people's lives' - Northern transport body's 120 staff face uncertain future as Government 'winds down' funding

Transport for the North employs staff in Manchester and Leeds but the body's funding for the next three years is yet to be confirmed

Manchester Evening News

‘Scrap passenger locator form’: Gatwick demands end to Covid travel form

‘It is there for a critical reason’ – transport secretary Grant Shapps

The Independent UK

Solid or tepid? The Tory ministers still defending Boris Johnson

A core group of cabinet ministers are continuing to back PM – some more vehemently than others

The Guardian - UK

Grant Shapps promises to ‘set Britons free’ with easing of travel rules

‘Covid restrictions on travel should last not a minute longer than is necessary,’ says transport secretary

The Independent UK

GMB's Susanna Reid grills Grant Shapps on following Covid rules when 'PM doesn't'

Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid to ask the Transport Secretary why the British public should follow the guidance after new allegations surfaced that officials gathered for Boris Johnson's birthday bash in June 2020

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Wales Online

Met Police now investigating Downing Street parties

No 10 has conceded staff “gathered briefly” in the Cabinet Room on the afternoon of June 19 2020

The Guardian - UK

Downing Street parties: Sue Gray report could come this week as police signal no objection – as it happened

Latest updates: prime minister welcomes Met police investigation into allegations of lockdown rule-breaking

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps: We’re bringing travel ‘back to the good old days’

The requirement for fully vaccinated arrivals to take a coronavirus test will be dropped from February 11.

Manchester Evening News

Grant Shapps says interior designer Lulu Lytle was NOT invited to PM's 'birthday party' and only 'happened to come by' the gathering

The Prime Minister was reportedly treated to a birthday bash at Number 10 in June 2020 while the majority of the country remained under Covid restrictions

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The Independent UK

Surprise birthday celebration for PM ‘almost certainly very unwise’ – Shapps

Grant Shapps said staff would have thought they were being ‘kind’ by presenting Boris Johnson with a birthday cake.

Daily Mirror

Grant Shapps defends Boris Johnson's lockdown birthday gathering as 'not a party'

Tory Grant Shapps put forward some excuses for Boris Johnson who is embroiled in yet another row over pandemic parties

The Guardian - UK

Cake and singing on PM’s birthday was not a party, says Grant Shapps

Transport secretary says Sue Gray will be using incident in her report, and ‘we’ll wait to see what she says’

Evening Standard

Covid booster vaccine ‘almost certainly’ needed to go on holiday this summer, says Grant Shapps

‘If you want to travel, say go to Spain on holiday this summer, they are almost certainly going to require that booster jab ‘

Wales Online

Grant Shapps says there are 'better things' to focus on than No 10 parties

The Independent UK

‘I don’t seek to defend it’: Grant Shapps admits Boris Johnson’s lockdown birthday party was wrong

‘It’s quite right that that’s investigated and the prime minister apologises where he has transgressed’

The Independent UK

Show some ambition, Burnham tells government over HS2 plans

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps described Monday as a ‘landmark moment’ in improving the North’s rail connections.

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