A senior Conservative has urged fellow MPs to join a new campaign against the “irreparable damage” from Covid-19 restrictions – demanding a return to “life as normal” for most people. The open challenge, mounted by ex-minister Steve Baker, underlines the…

Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube: The number of people who have died from coronavirus across the world has passed one million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Nine months into the pandemic, the bleak milestone…