“We desperately want to see [Ministers] tighten up the travel restrictions,” the Shadow Foreign Secretary says.
But “I feel quite fortunate to have a lot of constituents who are concerned about my safety…Wigan’s that kind of place.”
“Or that somehow questions people’s motives – most go into Parliament because they want to make things better.”
“A hard deadline signalled to the Taliban it was a waiting game until the 31st of August,” adds Nandy.
Unions have called for children to be vaccinated – but they may be up against an even noisier group: parents.
The Shadow Foreign Secretary feels people realise that Labour is “under new management” – but the Party “has a big mountain to climb.”
“I haven’t booked a foreign holiday for this summer and I won’t be doing so”.
The Shadow Foreign Secretary says that she is ‘determined to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with nurses to get them a pay rise’.
“We’re in a race against time to get the vaccine out across the country.”
She says that the Prime Minister ‘ridiculed’ Labour’s concerns about the new Covid strain, only to leave the nation’s Christmas plans in tatters.
MPs need to see the regulations as well as economic and health impact assessments before deciding if they will support the new tiers, she says.
People feel the Government has not just abandoned communities [in the North], but is now actively working against them, she says.
“When the Salisbury attack happened…we should not have equivocated or prevaricated. We should not have called for consensus.”
The Shadow Foreign Secretary says that Begum should either have been legally excluded or tried here.
For all the talk of levelling up ex-industrial towns, the contract for the scheme has been awarded to a mammoth Chinese state-owned company.