Jeremy Corbyn’s brother is facing two charges of breaching lockdown rules after allegedly participating in conspiracy theorist demonstrations blaming coronavirus on the 5G network.

Piers Corbyn, 73, was first arrested on 16 May during a demonstration at Hyde Park Corner involving 50 people.

He was allegedly among those claiming that the pandemic was both a hoax and that it was caused by the new 5G internet masts.

He was charged with offences under the Health Protection Regulations 2020 and told to attend Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 20 August.

Corbyn, a climate change denier who set up controversial weather forecasting business Weather Action, was charged with the same offence over protests on May 30.

He will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for those offences on 24 July.

Twelve others were arrested and charged under the Health Protection Act for allegedly taking part in the anti-lockdown protests of 16 May.

Along with patrols to ensure social distancing is being observed when pubs reopen, drinkers could be urged to order drinks via smartphone apps rather than at the bar.

The prime minister is expected to make an announcement on reopening pubs, restaurants and cafes in England next week from 4 July.

Here is some more detail on the plans leaked to The Times (paywall) about what the “new normal” could look like for restaurants, pubs and hotels.

The paper reports that Boris Johnson will announce a relaxation of the 2 metre social distancing rule next week from 4 July, in a bid to reopen pubs, cafes and attractions to restart the economy.

Among the raft of measures in the Times report are:

• Regular patrols of pub gardens to make sure people are observing social distancing
• Customers will be encouraged not to order drinks at the bar
• Waiting staff will bring out napkins and cutlery with the food, as opposed to setting tables in advance
• Waiting staff will be asked to wash their hands each time they serve a different table
• Laminated menus will be replaced by single-use ones
• Porters will leave guests’ bags outside their hotel rooms
• Spacing out of tables in restaurants and exercise equipment in gyms to maintain social distancing, along with staggered bookings to avoid overcrowding
• Even if hotel restaurants reopen, visitors could be urged to use room service, which will be delivered outside the hotel room door
• In spas, physiotherapists, masseurs, pedicurists and manicurists will all wear full protective gear

You can read the full report here.

Good morning. The government’s review into the 2-metre physical distancing rule in England is due to conclude in the coming days, the culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, has told the BBC. With the government due to announce further easing measures on 4 July, it has been under mounting pressure from the hospitality sector and its own MPs to bolster the economy by relaxing the rule, amid fears businesses like restaurants could not survive under the current restrictions.

The Times (paywall) reports on a raft of measures in leaked plans which set out how beer gardens and pubs could be patrolled to enforce social distancing, hotels could leave room service at the door and restaurant tables could not be set in advance.

Prof Calum Semple, a member of Sage advising the government’s coronavirus response, said it would now be reasonable to reduce the two-metre rule to just one with “various caveats and other precautions”. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:

The reason that I change my mind now and whereas I was of a very different opinion three weeks ago is that now we are in a position where there are low levels and sustained low levels of transmission throughout the country.

I’m still saying 2 metres is safer than one but in my opinion it is now a reasonable political decision to relax these rules, perhaps accelerate school opening and start opening up other parts of the economy, where it becomes harder to maintain the two-metre rule and where you might envisage going down to one metre with various caveats and other precautions and have a nuanced and flexible approach to allow parts of society to get going.

The former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith also said this morning that the 2-metre rule should be reduced before companies start “calling it a day” and cutting jobs. He told BBC Breakfast:

The economy is teetering at the moment, so we’re supporting lots of people through the furlough schemes and through loans, and these are of course going to have to come to an end.

If we don’t get the economy moving now, which is why the two to one metre is so critical, then we will see companies simply calling it a day and putting people onto unemployment.

The UK Hospitality trade body said draft government guidance to restart the sector contains a “degree of flexibility” for different businesses to put forward plans to be safe to reopen.

Chief executive Kate Nicholls told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the plan was for guidelines to be in place to “allow individual companies, individual premises, to undertake a detailed risk assessment and propose and put forward the control measures that they feel are necessary to keep their team safe and their guests safe”.

She said it was “possible for certain types of premises” to throw out menus after every use and to bring out cutlery only with food. But she added:

Other types of premises will choose to manage their risk in a different way and from the guidelines we’ve seen in draft from the government when they published them for consultation did allow that degree of flexibility rather than being a one-size-fits-all approach.

As the guidelines cover from a burger van in a park right the way through to the Fat Duck in Bray you need to have something that takes account everything in between rather than a one-size-fits-all.

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