The Government must speed up its vaccination programme, but until it understands the effect on transmission, tiers are here to stay.
The different administrations are all in different places with increasing bad blood between them. Also, devosceptics look set to win seats in Wales.
She attacks the Government for giving employers less than six hours’ notice that the furlough scheme was being extended.
“I am committing myself to a single priority – to create, support and extend opportunity to as many people as I can.”
The Chancellor has refused to extend his furlough scheme. Could a German-style system be what comes next?
“He should pay tribute to the Chancellor and his work”, says the Prime Minister to Starmer at today’s PMQs.
Although it must be remembered that the UK is still carrying out more tests than many other countries.
Closing hospitality and leisure businesses at 10pm would result in a wave of redundancies.
The Chancellor has ruled out extending furlough. Perhaps German and French schemes will provide his next source of inspiration.
While it’s important to focus on the ‘R’ rate in tackling covid, we must also balance health concerns against two other Rs – recovery versus recession.