Category: Covid inquiry

UK’s Covid vaccine programme must rebuild trust before next pandemic strikes, inquiry warns

Heather Hallett hails vaccine scheme but criticises rule that only those meeting 60% disabled threshold can get payoutsThe UK’s Covid vaccination programme was “an extraordinary feat” with protective jabs developed and delivered...

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Covid jab injury payments must be urgently reformed, says inquiry chair

Heather Hallett hails vaccine scheme but criticises rule that only those meeting 60% disabled threshold can get payoutsThe Covid-19 vaccine programme in the UK was an “extraordinary feat” but the payment scheme for people...

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‘Failed former Tory MPs’ who join Reform unlikely to be selected as candidates, Zia Yusuf says – UK politics live

This week it was announced that three more former Tory MPs have gone over to Nigel Farage’s partyThis is from Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, on Nigel Farage’s denial of the FT story. (See 9.33am.)A handy reminder that in 2019...

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Tory-Reform election pact would be ‘alliance of austerity and failure’, says Starmer – UK politics live

PM responds to report that Nigel Farage told donors he expects Reform could do an election deal with the ConservativesThis is from Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, on Nigel Farage’s denial of the FT story. (See 9.33am.)A handy...

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Starmer faces Badenoch at PMQs as Farage denies election pact with Tories – UK politics live

Reform UK leader says report of an election deal with Conservatives is ‘false’, but suggests only under their current leadershipThis is from Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, on Nigel Farage’s denial of the FT story. (See 9.33am.)A...

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Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the Covid report could say | Devi Sridhar

To prevent a future pandemic we’d need agile leadership, smart decision-making, humility and trustworthiness. How does one build those into a political system?It feels as though a collective amnesia has set in around Covid-19....

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