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Good news on the front page of today's Sunday Times: "Tory grandees" are heaping pressure on the Prime Minister to end the lockdown. "A pincer movement of Conservative Party donors, cabinet ministers and senior Tory backbenchers is putting Boris Johnson under concerted pressure to ease the lockdown," it reports. Another encouraging development is an exclusive on the front of today's Mail on Sunday revealing that the Government has ordered 50 million antibody tests that have been devised by scientists at Oxford working for the Rapid Testing Consortium. The newspaper claims the tests cost £10 each and give results in 20 minutes. Let's hope they're more reliable than the 33 FDA-approved PCR tests that infectious diseases expert David Crowe reviewed for Lockdown Sceptics yesterday. You can read David's article here. The Sunday Telegraph leads with a scoop of its own: anyone arriving in the UK from abroad — including British nationals — will have to self-isolate for two weeks under the Government's proposed exit strategy. This is already the case in Singapore, which has only recorded 12 deaths from COVID-19 to date. But won't that devastate the tourist trade? And what about British people who've already booked their summer holidays? Will they still leave the country knowing they'll have to self-isolate for two weeks on their return? It seems a little ...
