Y'all ready for this?! #BorisVAngela
Boris genuinely looks half awake and just fully not bothered about being there. Just holding out till after Christmas?
Rayner is raising issues faced by care homes, e.g., STILL poor access to testing and PPE
PM says just in recent days there has been a 'colossal spike' in demand for testing. Couldn't have seen that coming, what with schools returning and all
Then brags about the UK testing 'more than any other European country'.
Why is that a brag?! Random scatter-gun approach to testing is just making a huge mess of our approach, IMO
Boris is very clearly not listening to Rayner. He is just saying what he had planned to say at this #PMQs, with basically zero flexibility.
Rayner now discussing those who are dying alone in care homes @JohnCampaign, and also mothers giving birth, or miscarrying, alone in UK hospitals.
Boris says he agrees& that's why they changed the rules
[nb I know that, in Wales at least, you have to be 4cm dilated before your partner can attend. A friend of mine had a very traumatic birth, fulled by the fact she had no one with her to vouch for her & help w/communication]
I am genuinely shocked that I'm saying this, but, Rayner appears to be doing pretty well. There, I said it.
GOD most MPs are boring aren't they. Like automatons.
'We need more testing lalalala'
It's as if there are no other issues in the world.
Finally Ed Davey with a proper question about support for disabled children being trashed during lockdown
He goes on to say the Coronavirus Act broke international law in reducing the rights of disabled people.
Someone gave him a Red Bull - Boris now all animated talking about broadband.
Q by MP about increasing capacity for wedding venues to save the industry
PM: says he 'appreciates the concerns' but 'the trouble is there's an increase int he risk involved, and we simply have to balance that risk against what we're seeing now..
... we will work as fast as possible.. to take all these restrictions off..' but that the public 'all need to work together'
Boris just rolled out that bogus stat about how far people are travelling for a test now (5 miles on average, apparently)
Of course, this only includes those who *actually went and made the journey*, because they weren't offered a test in Aberdeen whilst living in Portsmouth
That's it, all over.
But hang tight - Boris faces the Liaison Committee (Commons) from 15301700 today:
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/31…
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