Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party joined major UK political groups on Tuesday in their decision to hold their annual conventions primarily online due to the new coronavirus pandemic.
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After Labor and Liberal Democrats, the ruling “ Tories ” announced that their return high mass, the first since their massive electoral victory in the early legislative elections in December, would be held in virtual format in October.
In a letter to party members, co-chairs Amanda Milling and Ben Elliot said they hoped that " some aspects " of the planned event in Birmingham (center) could still take place " in physical form ", if sanitary conditions allow. allowed.
The United Kingdom is the most bereaved country in Europe with more than 44,000 deaths tested positive for the virus. It relaxed the containment imposed on March 20 later than its neighbors, the main step taken to date being the reopening last Saturday of pubs, restaurants, hotels and cinemas.