A GP surgery in Brighton has been closed after a member of staff tested positive for the coronavirus, hours after the government declared the virus a “serious and imminent threat” to public health. The declaration gives the government legal powers to forcibly quarantine and isolate people considered to pose a threat to public health and […]
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The prime minister’s plan to seize control of the NHS has sparked fears of privatisation among opponents, while his core support has been rocked by revelations of a double whammy mansion tax and raid on private pensions. Boris Johnson’s “shock plans to impose a ‘mansion tax’ on owners of expensive homes” will “infuriate” Tory grassroots […]
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Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, over 24’000 people have been infected, of whom 493 have died. The current mortality rate stands at 2.1 per cent. The latest coronavirus UK update tells us that 414 people have tested negative, while two people are receiving treatment at a hospital in Newcastle. Over the last few days, […]
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British citizens are expected to be evacuated from China’s Wuhan city on flights starting tomorrow [Thursday] and to be put in quarantine for two weeks on their return home. British Airways has suspended all direct flights to and from mainland China with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advising against “all but essential travel” to […]
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The head of England’s mental health service has called on UK bookmakers to take urgent action to tackle the gambling-addiction crisis as it emerged Tory-donor-bookmakers are making millions from the NHS to treat gambling addicts. The NHS report that 430,000 people have a “serious betting problem” and NHS England mental health director Claire Murdoch said: […]
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The monarch returned to parliament for the second time in nine weeks to deliver what Boris Johnson claims is the “most radical” Queen’s Speech “in a generation”. Brexit, the NHS and terrorist sentencing – three key issues from the election campaign – dominated the speech which also laid out plans for constitutional reform and measures […]
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Jeremy Corbyn failed to land a knock-out blow on Boris Johnson in the final head-to-head leaders debate of the general election campaign. Conservatives will be delighted their leader emerged unscathed from the debate while Labour supporters may be left lamenting a lost opportunity to decisively swing the campaign in their favour. Voters will make their […]
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Boris Johnson blamed political “cowardice” for keeping the NHS free for all but the “genuinely sick” and “elderly” and argued that “if people have to pay” for NHS services, “they will value them more.” In a column for the Spectator magazine in 1995, unearthed by Business Insider, Johnson wrote that charging patients would prevent the […]
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Donald Trump arrives in London tonight (Monday) and senior Tories are alarmed the visit could turn into “a train wreck” for Boris Johnson with just ten days left before the general election. The US president will be attending the NATO Conference but Conservatives are concerned Trump could become “the most dangerous weapon in the armoury” […]
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Boris Johnson’s key election pledge to introduce 50,000 new nurses to tackle the NHS staffing crisis has been slammed by opponents as “frankly deceitful”. The Prime Minister announced the policy at the launch of the Conservative party’s general election manifesto in Telford where he promised to “release the lion from its cage” and “forge a […]
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