For all the focus elsewhere, the most important domestic department for the next two years will be the Department of Health.
“While we are not going ahead with mandatory vaccine-only covid status certification now, holding that power in reserve.”
“I can confirm that I have accepted the JCVI’s advice and that the NHS is preparing to offer booster doses from next week”.
“We shouldn’t be doing things for the sake of it…I’ve never liked the idea of saying to people you must show your papers.”
The Health Secretary adds that “when we take away hard-working people’s money every penny should be spent wisely.”
Despite being the world leader in vaccinations, Israel has seen immunity wear off. The UK government is taking note.
Keynesian Macmillan got through four Chancellors in six years. We hope that Boosterist Johnson, who’s already lost one, doesn’t see this as a precedent.
Yet the Chancellor comfortably holds on to his silver-medal spot, despite sharing in the u-turn.
The yearning to render everything inoffensive has itself become offensive, for it leads to persistent self-censorship.
Furthermore, by allowing the Queen to do this, the Government has dragged the monarch into the political murk.
The former claim that Ministers are moving too slowly; the latter that they’re moving too fast – or that they shouldn’t move at all.
Live, government-funded, out-of-school teaching provision can help level up education.