UK coronavirus: Johnson may review mask rules in English schools if medical advice changes — as it happened

Ofqual chiefs and Williamson face MPs; secondary school pupils in Scotland to cover faces from Monday as Wales reviews schools mask guidance

• Schools in England prepare to defy official mask advice
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• PM says school face mask guidance may change
• Ofqual chief Sally Collier quits over A-level fiasco
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Advice on wearing masks in schools in England will shift if the medical evidence is persuasive, Boris Johnson has said as pressure mounts from schools and unions.
On the issue of whether or not to wear masks in some contexts - you know, we'll look at the changing medical evidence as we go on," the prime minister told reporters on Tuesday. If we need to change the advice then of course we will."
No 10's initial advice that masks could impede communication between teachers and pupils and have little health benefit was being rapidly overtaken by events as dozens of schools prepared to take the unilateral decision to provide face coverings.

The head of England's exam regulator, Sally Collier, has resigned over the exams fiasco that has engulfed schools and universities.
News of her departure came hours after the education select committee announced she had been called to give evidence to MPs on the exams debacle at a hearing next Wednesday. An education source said: She knew she'd reached the end of the line."
Collier, the chief regulator and Ofqual chief executive, oversaw the development of the flawed exams algorithm that was scrapped after it downgraded nearly 40% of A-level results. The algorithm was created after ministers insisted on avoiding grade inflation.

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The EU's trade commissioner has said he broke no public health regulations governing the pandemic while in Ireland.

Phil Hogan, whose role makes him of key interest to British government officials pursuing post-Brexit trade talks, provided 20 pages of documents to the head of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen, after she requested further details of his trip home earlier this month.

I am satisfied, arising from the test that I did that proved it was negative, that I was no risk to anybody.

Because of the fact that I had a negative test. Because my medical people said I was no risk to anybody. I checked with the Citizens Information website which is funded by the HSE and I felt that I was no risk to anybody by going to Adare.

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