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CORONAVIRUS deaths in the UK have risen by one to 41,499 as thousands continue to flout quarantine rules over the Bank Holiday.

Earlier today, Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering a sweeping set of tax increases to help fix the huge hole in the public finances left by the coronavirus pandemic, two newspapers said.

Tax hikes suggested by Treasury officials could raise an extra 20-30 billion pounds a year, the Telegraph and the Sunday Times reported, and some of them could be announced in an autumn budget statement by Sunak.

Inevitable surely.

TWO Today - The weekend lag + Bank Holiday Monday and the spin continues .....