Gary Lineker Can Continue Twitter Rhetorics

Gary Lineker will be excluded from new BBC edicts requiring its staff to reign in their political opinions on social media, it’s been claimed.

It comes as new BBC head Tim Davie said he’s leading a fresh approach at the BBC for the corporation to become more impartial.

He said this would mean BBC staff would face new rules requiring them to watch what they say on social media platforms such as Twitter.

Gary Lineker, who’s blunt about his own personal beliefs, has previously dismissed being concerned about the push for impartiality and a BBC spokesperson said the retired sports star and Match of the Day presenter will not be expected to adhere to the new rules at all.

The spokesperson told a media outlet that Gary Lineker was not involved in any news or political output for the BBC and as such, any expression of his personal political views did not affect the BBC’s impartiality.

Sources said other staff who are not involved in the BBC’s news and current affairs output will likewise be exempt from the social media rules, although it’s not currently clear what Mr Davies’ new rules will be.

Mr Davie said that if you want to be an outspoken columnist or a partisan campaigner on social media then it’s a valid choice, but you should not be working at the BBC.

He further said that they’ll take action in the coming weeks, but to be clear, there will be new guidance on how they best deliver their impartiality guideline, new social media rules, which will be rigorously implemented, and more precise direction on the declaration of external interests and that their research shows that too many perceive them to be shaped by a particular perspective.

He said that they essentially need to champion and recommit to impartiality and that it was deliverable and that it was essential and he said that if you work at the BBC, nothing should be more exciting than exploring different views, seeking evidence with curiosity and creatively presenting testimony.

“To be clear, this is not about abandoning democratic values such as championing fair debate or an abhorrence of racism.

“But it is about being free from political bias, guided by the pursuit of truth, not a particular agenda.”

Gary Lineker has previously been critical of Brexit on his Twitter account, calling for a ‘People’s Vote’, a second referendum, on at least one occasion and the TV presenter said in one Tweet that it was pretty clear now that there is no good deal. That there was this rotten deal or an even more painful no deal.

However, the play is on the British public. The BBC is creating the illusion of change when they have no intention of doing so and if Gary Lineker had expressed right-wing or anti-migrant views he would have been off the air years ago. It’s only because he’s left-wing that he’s allowed to continue, that, in itself, is indicative of bias.

So much for a new start, same meat different gravy and this man is just another wannabe celebrity, his presenting is terrible and his wages obscene and our licence fee should not be used to pay this man and at the end of this Gary Lineker is of little importance and more of a nuisance, like a fly in the room, although a pretty expensive one.

Prince Andrew Under Pressure

Prince Andrew has come under heightened pressure to speak to the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged child sex trafficking crimes after demonstrations exploded outside Buckingham Palace.

Footage of furious demonstrators chanting ‘paedophile’ outside the Palace gates has been seen by millions of people online.

Numerous people held placards that called for an end to child trafficking, during the Freedom For The Children Global Walk London, amid reports child trafficking has actually increased throughout the coronavirus crisis.

And the extraordinary video broadcasting online clearly reveals how the issue of the Duke of York’s association with the late Jeffrey Epstein is not going away.

The Duke of York has further been accused of having sex with Virginia Roberts Guiffre, who claims to be a trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein, on three occasions when she was only 17 years old.

However, the Duke of York vehemently rejects this accusation and Buckingham Palace said in a statement that it absolutely denies that the Duke of York had any kind of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts Guiffre and that any claim to the contrary is untrue and without foundation.

Ms Giuffre recently spoke out again ahead of a new documentary, saying that she’s running out of hope because Prince Andrew has still not spoken to the FBI and US prosecutors have claimed the Duke of York is not helping with their investigation, whilst Prince Andrew’s team claim he’s attempted to help three times this year.

In the meantime, Prince Andrew’s long time friend Ghislaine Maxwell who was the one who introduced him to Jefferey Epstein has been arrested and is awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, as well as perjury charges. However, Ghislaine Maxwell refutes any wrongdoing.

Royal commentators have argued that the image of protestors outside Buckingham Palace is an incredibly bad look for the Royal Family.

Pod Save the Queen is hosted by Ann Gripper and features Daily Mirror royal editor Russel Myers, who said the people at the Palace that he’s spoken to have confirmed that this did, in fact, take place, but there hasn’t been any comment from them.

However, could these people not have protested when they were pulling down statues, where were they then? Although this is something totally different, this is paedophilia and this is about protecting our children and children come before anything or anyone else.

And if Prince Andrew has nothing to hide, why is he dragging it on because at the end of the day it will only look worse for him.

All he needs to do is go to America and get this stopped, otherwise it will go on and on and then people will believe he’s guilty and what makes me really laugh about this is, if he was innocent, he would come out with confident body language, but instead he came out with this negative quivering sweating body language and he needs to be ordered to go back to the United States to answer interrogatories.

This is what happens when you mess with young girls and the only head you were listening to was the one in your pants and he will never admit to any wrongdoing because he believes he’s above the rest of us, and he would never confess to something that would actually put him to shame and covering up paedophilia and sex trafficking is the problem and it won’t go away until all the offenders and anyone defending them are all locked up.

THE FUTURE HAS BEEN ERADICATED

This coronavirus has created three shocks. There’s the health shock, the worst of which should be behind us by the end of this year if Governments handle it well.

There’s the economic shock which will last for considerably longer and there’s the psychological shock which we’ll never get over.

No one who is alive today and old enough to understand what is occurring will ever get over the latter shock and it will mark our lives in a way that only war does. What’s more, this is an event that has happened simultaneously to all eight billion of us on the planet – nothing like this has ever happened to humankind before.

The consequences of these three shocks have been to destroy the future that, on New Year’s day 2020, everyone believed they had, and what happens next is now up to us and this will be a highly contested space.

It will be a contest of interests, beliefs and opinions all trying to shape the policy landscape as we pass through the crisis into its aftermath and it will be a battle between incumbents seeking a way back to their past and innovators embracing the possibility to build back better.

It will be a contest between small state political ideologues who have seen their plan hampered and those for whom the state is back in its proper place.

It will be a battle between those for whom the concept of conflict is the driving energy of human development and those for whom competition unconstrained by cooperation is a prescription for anarchy.

The policy landscape that arises from these contests will define the possibilities for the success or failure of the climate policy and it’s far too soon to see much of that landscape.

This is the time when certainties are dangerous, yet a fog of uncertainties rule.

First, the climate will go on evolving – how much and how fast will depend on the outcome of the contests above, but the nature of our influence on the climate system is such that the future we have already created pauses a while before announcing itself.

And the tide of public concern on the climate in 2019 that found such important global expression in Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion was driven by the public’s growing experience of extreme weather situations.

Public and political awareness is rightly directed elsewhere for the moment but the events that inspired the anxiety will not stop coming and Government’s everywhere will have restoring the economy as their top priority.

This means restoring purchasing power as quickly as possible and a danger for any government bailout programme is that it becomes a bailout to a multitude of other problems.

Inevitably there will be an army of lobbyists seeking to move the all too visible hands of politicians – a pretty clear test then emerges for bailout bids and there will be debt, there’s already debt, now there will be much more debt.

And there will be levels of debt we have only ever encountered before in the aftermath of global war and settling this debt will be the next priority for Governments as they reconstruct their economies.

Here there’s a clear lesson from history. After the first world war, the way chosen to deal with the debt was to reduce public spending. The result was the Depression from which economies were only really rescued by the next war.

After the second world war, the policy choice was to mobilise public investment in creating the welfare state in Britain and the Marshall Plan in Europe.

The resulting productivity improvements meant the market was growing fast by the fifties and the debt was back to controllable levels. Now the need to protect the climate can come to the rescue of our damaged economy by providing, on massive scales, just the productivity-enhancing investments that will push the energy transition to net-zero and heighten confidence in economic recovery.

Gary Lineker Announces He Will Welcome Refugee

Exclusive Match of the Day presenter and former England striker Gary Lineker has agreed to take someone in who has sought asylum via the charity Refugees at Home.

When it comes to television, Gary Linekar is frequently seen as the perfect host and now the Match of the Day presenter is about to entertain guests of a much different kind.

In a few weeks time, he will welcome a refugee to his Surrey home but many would be horrified by the idea of taking a stranger into their home, but he insists it will be fine.

Gary Lineker offered to help through a charity called Refugees at Home but Gary has no idea who he will be welcoming or where they’ve come from.

Before his application is accepted he has to have an interview and home visit by the charity which has helped find interim accommodation for more than 2,250 refugees and asylum seekers.

He was asked if he was worried but he said that he wasn’t at all because he’d had so much connection with refugees over the last couple of years and that he’s met scores of young refugees through football projects and they’re genuinely nice kids and they appreciate any help they can get.

He said that he was sure it would be fine and that he’d been considering doing something like this for a while and he said that his kids are all grown up so he’s got loads of room now, so if he can help on a temporary basis then he’s more than pleased to do so.

He said that he’s got four lads in their 20’s, so he’s used to young men being in the house and that he’s sure that the refugees will behave better than his lot.

Gary Lineker’s comments to refugees led him to make a video for the International Rescue Committee charity on fish and chips. He said it’s not as odd as it sounds and that this most typical of British foods was introduced here in the 16th century by Jewish refugees from Spain and Portugal escaping persecution by the Spanish Inquisition.

And he explained that most of the things we think of as quintessentially British are often brought in from different shores, even St George is Turkish and he just believes that we owe a lot to refugees and that most people are descended from refugees at some point.

And that they’ve given so much to this country and still proceed to do so in terms of the jobs that they do and that we’ve seen throughout the pandemic in the NHS, carers and key workers.

But not everyone is going to agree with him because people out there are saying that they’re illegal immigrants and not refugees.

They come through dozens of safe countries to get to the land of free housing and benefits, with handouts galore. We have always had immigrants come from different lands to England but the difference back then was they were given nothing for free and many had to go to poor shelters and were given slop and had to work extremely hard to get where they wanted to be, there were no handouts then.

Now they’re treated like celebrities while pensioners starve and they get free dental, free medical and now they’re being put up in a celebrity home. But I suppose it is heartwarming to see such concern for the homeless, but what about the homeless of this country?

Eat Out To Help Out

Ministers are asking Rishi Sunak to launch a second helping of his discount dining scheme to lure workers back into Britain’s abandoned city centres.

The Chancellor is understood to have received suggestions from co-workers that a follow up to his hugely triumphant ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ initiative could boost urban markets recover from the coronavirus lockdown.

Treasury officials are examining possible options to present to Rishi Sunak on his return from holiday. Eat out to Help Out, which offered half-price meals in pubs and restaurants three days a week, wound up with millions of families using the bank holiday as the last chance to tuck into taxpayer subsidised chow.

Some ministers would like to see new locally targeted discount schemes to further encourage office workers to return to their desks after months of working from home.

On unnamed minister was quoted in a newspaper as saying that the scheme had been a huge success in general but that it was all very well going to your local restaurant down the road for a cheap meal when those restaurants were already doing good business because of people working from home.

But it was destination restaurants in city centres that needed the help and that was where the resources should have been concentrated.

More than 64 million meals were served up under the Eat out to Help Out scheme, which operated on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays throughout August.

Rishi Sunak initially earmarked £500 million from the Treasury to pay for the discount, worth up to £10 a feast. The final cost is expected to be announced in the next few days.

Figures show the average discount was about £5.25, just over half the maximum.

Dozens of restaurant and pub chains have pledged to continue offering the discount over the next few weeks to encourage customers to keep coming back. Yet the Chancellor is worried that the slump in business in city centres around the nation will have a disastrous impact on the broader market.

Many leading businesses including major banks in the City of London have told staff to continue working from home until next year at the earliest. But ministers are understood to want to try to slowly encourage workers back to their offices without being seen as too heavy-handed.

Senior backbench Tory MP Robert Halfon, a former minister said that it should be up to the employers to decide and he added that it’s great if you’ve got vibrant and bustling cities, but that they don’t want to get themselves into a situation where the Tories are seen as saying this is what an employer must do in some sort of forced collectivisation.

The difficulty with the scheme is that if you’re a pub landlord who has taken part in the scheme, there’s a number of problems.

Staff have hardly had a day off, especially chefs and it seems the offer brings out the worst of customers who usually eat at cheap chain pubs with plastic food and have no idea what food should taste like and it diminishes the value of normal menus.

And I’m sorry but £10 off a meal that someone can cook at home for a third of the price in half the time saved by not commuting, never mind the cost of that is not going to encourage people to eat out, never mind return to the office.

This Government has to be more charitable in financially supporting people during this pandemic, but ultimately, we will have to pay the piper.

And don’t forget, people have had almost 6 months to get into the habit of some good home cooking and not eating out, and with both job losses and tax rises on the cards many will find it difficult to justify such foolish expenditure.

However, the Government have been extremely generous inflating the fraudulent statistics to erroneously justify the necessary lockdown. So, eat and be merry because tomorrow the tax man is coming.

It might look like our Government are doing something for us, but we actually do need to look about us because the money that the Government purports to give us is money that YOU the taxpayer has already paid out and then sneakily the Government take it off you again but make it look like charity.

It might have looked as if we were having a meal out on Boris Johnson, but now the fun is over and we have to pay it all back and for years to come – in fact, nothing has been normal for a pretty long time.

The more the Government gives away, the more we have to give back and it’s great for those big businesses that can join the scheme and it’s great for those that can afford to eat out, in the meantime the less well off pay and get nothing.

Asia Second Wave Warning

Coronavirus has mutated into a more dangerous version of the killer disease, leading scientists have warned, amid mounting fears of a second wave.

The novel strain of coronavirus has been identified by researchers in Indonesia, which has prompted one expert to fear positive cases could climb to half a million in the area by the end of the year.

Scientists at the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology have found an infectious but milder D614G mutation of the virus. The new strain of the virus was identified in genome sequencing data from specimens and has additionally been discovered in tests conducted in nearby Singapore and Malaysia.

Syahrizal Syarif, an epidemiologist with the University of Indonesia, has warned the prevailing level of infections is out of control and said current modelling suggests positive cases could climb to 500,000, come the end of December.

Mr Syarif said that the situation was grave and that local transmission was currently out of control. The leading epidemiologist also feared the current figures could be much higher if the capacity for testing was increased.

Indonesia has written more than 172,000 positive cases of COVID 19 since the start of the pandemic, now modelling suggests this could almost treble in the next four months.

Signs of a second wave of coronavirus emerged after the Indonesian capital Jakarta saw a record daily increase of more than 1,000 cases.

Across the country, there were also 2,858 new infections, including 82 deaths. The daily figure was just below the previous high, set a day earlier when 3,308 people tested positive.

Dwi Oktavia, an official at the Jakarta health agency, called on people to stay at home and wear a face mask when they go out in order to stem the outbreak.

He said there needs to be an awareness and a concerted effort, be it from the Government or the people, in addressing the growing number of cases.

The surge in the number of cases across Asia comes as Europe is on the verge of a second wave.

The World Health Organisation has warned the continent is entering a critical moment.

France reported 7,379 new confirmed cases, the most since lockdown, in what the health ministry described as an exponential surge. But a further 5,453 new cases were reported in the country, with the number of patients being admitted into intensive care rising from 387 to 400.

Thousands Of Anti-Lockdown Demonstrators Rally In London

Huge crowds assembled at Trafalgar Square calling for no more lockdowns and no to vaccinations and there seemed to be little social distancing or people donning face masks.

Thousands of anti lockdown demonstrators rallied in central London, claiming coronavirus is a hoax.

The ‘Unite For Freedom’ march began in Trafalgar Square at midday on Saturday, with demonstrators calling for no more lockdowns, no to vaccinations and no to government lies.

Pictures and video’s from the protestors show thousands of people at the famous tourist hotspot, with many holding signs and placards and there seemed to be little or no social distancing amongst the huge crowds and very few seemed to be wearing face coverings.

The brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Piers was expected to make a speech and activist Sonia Poulton, who was part of the demonstration, posted a video on Twitter.

She said that people were coming to make their opinions heard against forced vaccinations, compulsory masks, forced anything really. No more lockdowns and no more second wave business.

Notorious conspiracy theorist David Icke was also seen making a speech at Trafalgar Square.

Messages on signs read ‘coronavirus is a hoax’ and no to forced vaccines and masks are muzzles. Other signs read ‘masks reduce immunity’ and ‘masks increase infection risk’.

Despite more than 40,000 deaths in the United Kingdom from coronavirus, another sign said it was ‘fake science’ and COVID 19 can be compared to a ‘bad flu’. Another handmade sign read ‘COVID hoax’.

A flier for the event said that there would be top doctors and nurses speaking the truth against government pushing fears and disregarding science.

@waite_richard tweeted: “Trafalgar Square Now!!! Standup!! No to RNA Vaccines, No to Masks, No to lockdowns!”

There have been numerous anti lockdown demonstrations across the United Kingdom and Europe through the pandemic and earlier this month, unmasked campaigners came together for a ‘freedom gathering’ in protest of the lockdown.

Tens of people gathered in Victoria Square in Birmingham to make their views on face masks known and they gathered around a speaker and a sign which read ‘COVID 19 is a smokescreen for a bigger agenda’.

The speaker said that everyone can’t go to pop concerts until Boris Johnson says so. “What’s that all about? It’s about control, exactly. Many of you already know this”.

“So many people are walking around with masks on. What about the issue of the mask? Do masks protect you? Look at the scientific studies.

“They say they have next to no effect.”

And now it seems like millions are finally waking up about this scamdemic or should we say plandemic.

And we know that there has been a virus, but how many people have really died from it? Plus there’s been lots of confusion, especially by the likes of David Icke and other conspiracy theorists.

However, if COVID 19 was that deadly then they clearly wouldn’t be letting small children go back to school or any children for that matter. And what about all those beaches that were full of thousands of people? We all know viruses love masses of people and by now those people protesting about COVID 19 should be showing some signs of contamination.

The NHS isn’t even treating cancer patients who are now beyond any help to survive and many have died and some elderly people in care homes with COVID 19 were kept from going to the hospital and they were even refused a GP visit and some were even denied oxygen and died a terrible death of suffocation.

Even old people with COVID 19 were sent out of the hospital to a care home to contaminate others as the hospital didn’t want them and don’t forget the public pay for the NHS by taxation and then the NHS stop treatment for people with cancer.

Then we have the Nightingale Hospitals that were built to deal with thousands of people with COVID 19 but then they were left empty, so where is the pandemic?

People might think that protestors have no intelligence but the ones with no brains are the ones that listen to the likes of comedian Matt Hancock, and if he said that we had to eat dog poop because it would stop us from getting COVID 19, would people really do it because this British funnyman said so?

Up To 50,000 Needless Deaths

Sir David King, a former chief scientific adviser, criticised the Government’s administration of the crisis and claimed minister’s consciously allowed coronavirus to spread.

Sir David King, who was the Government’s prime scientist from 2000-2007, said the shocking number of deaths was unjust and a total cock-up by the Government.

He said he founded the Independent SAGE group of experts to address the entire mash of the official response in the initial stages of the emergency.

Sir David attacked the Government of supporting the questionable idea of herd immunity, when a huge number of people get the disease, allowing for a level of immunity in the population.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has repeatedly stated that herd immunity was never part of the Government’s coronavirus response but Sir David said the Prime Minister believed in the herd immunity programme and that the Prime Minister said that we had to be prepared for losing some of our loved ones and that every one of us had to be prepared.

So, Sir David said there was that expectation that they consciously allowed the virus to spread and Sir David said he set up the rival body of scientists due to the secrecy encompassing the Government’s SAGE committee at the start of the crisis.

He said the Government certainly didn’t want the public to know that Dominic Cummings was a member of that committee and he said that you shouldn’t have an adviser to the Prime Minister, who isn’t a scientist because then you’ve got two sources of possibly contradictory advice.

Sir David said faith in the Government had been corroded through the pandemic and condemned Boris Johnson for failing to adhere to the truth and he added that it seemed that Boris Johnson always says what he believes is convenient.

Senior Tory backbencher Charles Walker said it had become difficult for Conservative MPs to support the Government due to the climate of uncertainty and he said that too often it looks like the Government licks its fingers and sticks them in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.

And that it had become increasingly difficult for backbenchers to support and defend government’s policy because so often that policy is amended or discarded without warning.

Whether that approach is on purpose or by chance, the climate of uncertainty it creates is unsustainable and corrodes confidence and we’re being butchered by the Government.

And adding to this huge international scare and promoting even more separation and fear into our society is the mainstream media and death and the fear of death brings in the money and the business for these media peers, and for certain Government departments whom, at present, are promoting the virus through mainstream politics and are using the media to spread their agenda.

But not only that, this fella sat back and watched the Government annihilate the people with this virus and now only comes out to condemn the Government, but where was he throughout all of this?

It’s a bit like the NHS chucking infected grannies into care homes to initiate mass carnage – Hitler comes to mind! And they seem to be using the concentration camp guard defence for murder “My boss told me to do it, but I knew they were going to be killed”.

But saying that, Sir David King also seems to be a disgruntled has been and he was nowhere to be seen at the start of this crisis but now appears after the battle to bayonet the wounded.

Senior Tory Warns There’s A 50:50 Chance School Exams Could Be Scrapped Next Summer

Education Committee chairman Robert Halfon called on the exams regulator to decide within weeks whether GCSE and A level exams will go ahead next year, following criticism over results chaos.

School exams could be scrapped next summer, a senior Tory MP has announced and he’s asked the under fire regulator Ofqual to conclude by October whether to press ahead with exams or to award grades based on teacher assessments.

It comes amid continued criticism over the Government’s handling of education through the pandemic, which saw ministers deliver a turbulent U-turn on A level results.

Teachers were asked to predict grades for students after exams were cancelled due to the coronavirus. However, some 40 per cent of results were downgraded by a computer algorithm, provoking an outcry over the impact on the fate of thousands of teenagers.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson originally stood by the results, before making a mortifying U-turn days later and Ofqual boss Sally Collier has stood down following the debacle.

Mr Halfon said that schools, the Department of Education and Ofsted need to work out how much disruption there will be to the students learning in the coming year. He further said that serious investigation needs to be done and that they then need to make an announcement about exams within the next few weeks.

He warned that teens may have fallen too far behind due to months out of school and boosted concerns that a second wave could force students back to home education.

It comes as Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said that children would suffer if they failed to return to school and that if a child isn’t in school, they stand to lose far more than just a few months of education and that it would be a tremendous dent in their future life chances.

He further said that education was a birthright, so he wanted to make sure that they get all children back to school, back to learning, back to playing and back to being kids again.

Gavin Williamson maintained he wasn’t intending to quit despite critique of his record, saying he would continue to graft away.

Teaching unions have blasted the Government for releasing crucial guidance for secondary schools in lockdown zones. The measures include plans for a rota system to reduce student numbers, something ministers had earlier ruled out.

The past six months have been a national catastrophe for education and Robert Halfon gave examples of what he thought had gone wrong in the handling of the coronavirus crisis for schools which he called in some ways a disgrace.

He said that there had been unbelievable efforts by teachers and support staff to continue teaching during the coronavirus school closures, but that not all children were reached.

And Robert Halfon added that they knew that, for one reason or another, millions of children had not been learning and millions of children had not had any contact with their teachers.

Shinzo Abe Resigns As Japan’s Prime Minister

Shinzo Abe has resigned as Japan’s Prime Minister after eight years in government.

In a news conference, the Prime Minister said he didn’t want his illness to lead to mistakes with major policy decisions. He also apologised to citizens from the bottom of his heart for not being able to perform his obligations.

The resignation will trigger a leadership race in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the victor of which must be formally elected in parliament.

Japanese stocks have fallen following the announcement prompted concerns amongst investors that his signature monetary and fiscal policy programme, Abenomics, might cease after he leaves office.

Concerns about his health began after he went to the hospital twice.

Officials from the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) had attempted to squash speculation that Mr Abe may be unable to serve out the rest of his term, due to end in September 2021.

One of Mr Abe’s hospital visits is known to have lasted approximately eight hours.

The Japanese leader is known to suffer from ulcerative colitis, a lifelong condition.

The severity of his condition was partially responsible for forcing him out of office after just a year during his previous term as prime minister in 2007.

The Prime Minister’s deputy, finance minister Taro Aso, is expected to take over as acting Prime Minister. However, his departure is almost guaranteed to spark a leadership race in the LDP.

The Japanese Prime Minister made his most recent hospital visit on the same day he became Japan’s longest-serving leader and Shinzo Abe broke the record for consecutive days in office set by his great uncle, Eisaku Sato, half a century ago.

A senior LDP member said that Mr Abe’s condition seemed to have flared up again but that he was now on the mend but that he was probably exhausted mentally.

The government’s chief spokesperson, Yoshihide Suga, said he had met Mr Abe twice a day and hadn’t seen anything that showed he was in bad shape.

The media have quoted government sources as saying Mr Abe would consult with doctors again, probably over the phone before he’s due to speak to reporters.

The Japanese Prime Minister is also expected to defend his handling of the coronavirus pandemic amid an apparent second wave of new infections in Tokyo – Mr Abe hasn’t briefed the media on the coronavirus crisis since mid-June.

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