The sun continues to shine, although a north-easterly brings a chill. Caught up on matters arising over the weekend on my daily conference call with my team, who are doing wonders. More correspondence with Mike Kean, the MD of the Sandbanks ferry, which has closed for obvious reasons. Trying to help him acquire funding, but this is not proving easy. Had a good chat with Pauline Werba, who runs the Swanage foodbank. What a special woman, as was one of her volunteers, called Lucy, who took the original call. They are well placed, apparently, to cope, with volunteers ensuring everything is handed out and delivered. Interestingly, more than 140,000 firms have applied for help to pay their wage bill through the government's job retention scheme, which went live on Monday. The programme funds 80 per cent of workers' wages, up to £2,500 a month, if they are put on leave. Speaking at the Downing Street press briefing, Rishi Sunak said the money would help pay the wages of more than a million people. On the question of a sufficient supply of PPE, Mr Sunak said that getting enough was an “international challenge” for all countries amid the coronavirus crisis. The RAF has now sent a plane to Turkey to pick up a supply of PPE that never arrived. In other news, 19 people have been shot dead by a gunman disguised as a policeman in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Finally, private text messages between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and her father have been revealed in court as part of the couple's claim against Associated Newspapers.