Keir Starmer calls for 24/7 Covid vaccine programme January 11, 2021 Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for the government to “put families first” during this Covid lockdown by extending paid flexible furlough to all working parents, while also calling for the UK’s weekly vaccine target to be doubled to 4m. The Labour leader called for a round the clock vaccine programme, which would see [...]
Rishi Sunak warns UK economy will ‘get worse before it gets better’ January 11, 2021 The UK’s economy is set to “get worse before it gets better”, Rishi Sunak has today warned. The chancellor told MPs this afternoon that the country’s latest lockdown has scuppered any economic recovery from last year and that the new restrictions will “have a significant impact on the economy”. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) [...]
Rishi Sunak: Working from home will not be the new normal post-Covid January 11, 2021 Widespread full-time working from home will not become a permanent fixture of the UK economy and central London is destined to come back to life post-Covid, according to Rishi Sunak. The chancellor told City A.M.’s The City View podcast that he’s “desperate” for “the buzz, the vitality and the creativity” that cities generate and that [...]
Rishi Sunak calls for return to ‘sustainable finances’ ahead of March budget January 11, 2021 Rishi Sunak has reiterated the need to return to “sustainable” levels of government spending as he foreshadows future Budget cutbacks. Sunak told City A.M.’s The City View podcast in an exclusive interview that the Treasury’s £280bn Covid spending over the past year was “the right thing to do”, but that “over time” he had to [...]
UK to roll out rapid Covid-19 tests for asymptomatic people January 10, 2021 The UK will next week roll out regular rapid testing for people with no Covid-19 symptoms, according to health secretary Matt Hancock. Hancock announced today that the lateral flow tests, which give a result in 30 minutes, will be used to target asymptomatic Covid cases in care homes, across the NHS, in critical infrastructure workplaces [...]
Sir Keir Starmer: Don’t hit UK families with tax hikes January 10, 2021 Sir Keir Starmer has called for the government to reverse its decision last year to effectively raise council taxes, while casting Labour under his leadership as the “party of the family”. Starmer said the “importance of family hasn’t been talked about enough during this crisis” and that the country’s households deserve “far more from a [...]
Every UK adult to be offered Covid vaccine by autumn as 2m now immunised January 10, 2021 Health secretary Matt Hancock has said every UK resident over the age of 18 will be offered a Covid vaccine by autumn and that 2m people have now been immunised. Hancock said the government had 350m doses on order across the different vaccines and that he was confident they could be rolled out before next [...]
Democrat leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer demand Donald Trump’s removal from office January 7, 2021 Most senior Democratic Senator joins calls for Donald Trump's removal from office
Nearly 1.5m in the UK have received first Covid vaccine jab January 7, 2021 Boris Johnson has today announced that just under 1.5m in the UK have now received their first Covid vaccine jab as he doubles down on a promise to hit 15m vaccinations by next month. The new figure means that around 200,000 people have been vaccinated since Tuesday – a rate well below what’s needed to [...]
New televised daily Downing Street press conferences postponed January 7, 2021 Downing Street’s planned televised press conferences have been indefinitely postponed due to the latest Covid lockdown. The White House-style briefings, which will be led by new Number 10 press secretary Allegra Stratton, were supposed to begin on 11 January. Downing Street said today there would instead be press conferences three times a week starting from [...]
