Boris Johnson has said the long-feared second wave of the pandemic has arrived in the UK, with new cases of coronavirus in England estimated to have doubled over the past week.

Parts of the North West, West Yorkshire and the Midlands have been placed under further localised coronavirus restrictions.

The coronavirus transmission rate could now be as high as 1.4 in the UK, official figures show.

Campaigners have described it as "a huge step forward".

Amal Clooney has quit her role as the UK’s special envoy on media freedom in protest at the government’s "lamentable" intention to "break international law" with the Internal Market Bill.