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Johnson and Cummings’ previous assaults on the pre-Brexit order have been brilliantly conceived. This one may not be up to the same standard.
And with 300,000 users downloading Northern Ireland’s app, it’s unclear to the public why England’s equivalent is taking so long.
But with the Scottish Government’s ratings apparently impervious to its record, the real question is whether these damning figures will make any difference.
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It seems to gaze upon the SNP’s seemingly unstoppable rise and conclude that Sturgeon’s party is doing something right.
The SNP has been flippant and left local authorities in a precarious position. We need proper funding to make localised decisions.
Cases, which can fluctuate, are often used as the sole measure of a country’s success in fighting Covid-19. But that’s wrong.
Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
In the weeks before recess, trans rights activists became more vocal in their efforts to stop Truss’s reform of the Gender Recognition Act.
Children are resilient. Often it is the parents who are more anxious. So get information out to them as quickly and simply as possible.
Plus: There is speculation of a Cabinet reshuffle soon, but I hear otherwise…
With VJ Day approaching, we should never lose our pride in our shared military history and of our contribution to the vanquishing of tyranny.
The best protection for the latter would be Government-guaranteed hardship loans.