Sajid Javid confirms £5.4bn extra NHS England funding for winter September 6, 2021 Sajid Javid has today announced NHS England will receive an extra £5.4bn in funding over winter in a bid to clear the Covid-related hospital backlog. The health secretary announced that £1bn will go directly on easing the waiting list, £2.8bn will be used to cover related costs such as enhanced infection control measures and £478 [...]
Dominic Raab’s House of Commons aide raises concerns about vaccine passports September 6, 2021 Dominic Raab’s parliamentary assistant has today raised concerns over the government’s plan to introduce mandatory vaccine passports for large events. Tory MP Joy Morrissey, the parliamentary private secretary for the Foreign Office, has broken with the government’s stance and tweeted she was “very concerned at the idea of vaccine passports generally, but in particular the [...]
Afghan refugees to get permanent UK residency visas September 6, 2021 Afghan refugees will be given permanent residency visas when arriving in the UK, Boris Johnson has announced today. Johnson told the House of Commons today that the 20,000 refugees who will come to the UK via the Afghanistan settlement scheme will be given “indefinite leave to remain”. Five thousand refugees will be handed visas this [...]
IoD: Hiking national insurance to pay for social care is illogical September 6, 2021 The Institute of Directors has criticised the government’s reported decision to hike national insurance to pay for social care and clearing the backlog of NHS work. The influential organisation that represents UK business leaders said using national insurance to fund social care is illogical as the levy is intended to provide a safety net for [...]
Russia blamed by German foreign ministry for parliament cyber attack September 6, 2021 Russia is responsible for a cyber attack on Germany parliament, a spokesperson for the country’s foreign ministry has said today. The attacks come ahead of Germany’s parliamentary election on 26 September, which will see chancellor Angela Merkel depart the helm, and could have prompted the string of violations. The spokesperson, Andrea Sasse, added that a [...]
Number 10 says there are ‘no plans’ for a cabinet reshuffle this week September 6, 2021 Downing Street has hosed down widespread rumours that a cabinet reshuffle will happen on Thursday. Boris Johnson’s official spokesman told journalists repeatedly today that “we have no plans for a reshuffle”. Multiple outlets reported yesterday that Johnson would make his long awaited reshuffle, the first since February 2020, on Thursday. Downing Street cleared his official [...]
Scottish independence would be ten times worse than Brexit, warns Sturgeon economic sage September 6, 2021 An influential economic adviser to Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has warned the damage inflicted on the country by independence could be “Brexit times ten”. Mark Blyth, professor of international economics at the Watson Institute of Brown University in Rhode Island, and a member of Sturgeon’s council of economic advisers, said in an interview with [...]
Merkel ‘deeply shocked’: Germany’s new ambassador to China dies suddenly September 6, 2021 Diplomatic circles across China and the wider APAC region are in shock as Germany’s brand new ambassador to China has suddenly died at the age of 54, the German foreign ministry said this morning. The ministry announced Jan Hecker’s “sudden death” in a short statement in the early hours of today. It did not give [...]
Northern Ireland: UK announces indefinite delay to new border checks September 6, 2021 The UK has announced indefinite delays to the implementation of new post-Brexit checks in Northern Ireland. Defacto Brexit minister Lord David Frost today announced the EU had agreed to an effective “standstill” to the Brexit treaty’s Northern Ireland Protocol, which will mean a delay to checks on things like meat, fish and dairy products going [...]
Boris Johnson to vow to ‘use every lever’ to keep UK safe from future terrorist attacks September 5, 2021 Boris Johnson will tomorrow vow to use “use every economic, political and diplomatic lever” to protect the UK from future terrorist attacks, after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last month. The Prime Minister will use the statement in the House of Commons tomorrow to also announce a further £5m funding for military charities that offer [...]
