“From next month, weekly tests will be available to staff in prisons, food manufacturing, and those delivering and administering Covid vaccines.”
“I’m acutely conscious that no other peacetime Prime Minister has asked so much of the British people.”
It’s vital that on education, policing and infrastructure, as much clarity is given as possible to departments as possible in terms of long-term funding.
The final article in ConHome’s series on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
The guidelines cover a broad range of issues and admit breaches both great and small. They are not a substitute for the Prime Minister’s judgement.
Plus: Johnson’s sub-optimal Brexit trade deal choice. I’m not dreaming of a normal Christmas. And: green jobs – overall, a cost not a benefit.
The fifth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
He says that defence spending will be increased “by £24.1 billion over the next four years”.
The broad constitutional consensus Starmer cited is fragile, and based on part on a substantial minority of unionists falsifying their preferences.
The Scottish leader has always tried to temper expectations about the country’s fight with Covid. This could pay off in an independence referendum.
The fourth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
Reports suggest the Government is planning to reduce spending from 0.7 per cent of gross national income to 0.5 per cent.
Today’s proceedings were about as watchable as a game of cricket where the batsman does not actually have to face the bowling in person.
Starmer attacks Johnson for breaking the “very broad consensus” on the constitution. The latter claims he meant the SNP’s record is the ‘disaster’.
Too often, we have viewed ethnic minorities through lumping everyone who is non-white into this crude category.