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NEW: Shadow cabinet appointees

Big news Ed Miliband returns as Shadow Business, Energy and Industry Sec

-@DavidLammy: Shadow Justice Sec
-@JohnHealey_MP: Shadow Defence
-@EmilyThornberry: Shadow International Trade Sec
-@jreynoldsMP: Work and Pensions
-@RLong_Bailey: Education
More shadow cabinet appointees to @Keir_Starmer top team

-@JoStevensLabour: Culture, Media and Sport
-@bphillipsonMP: Shadow Chief Sec (first ever all female top 2 treasury team)
-@LukePollard: Envrionment, Food and Rural Affairs
-@SteveReedMP: Local govt
-@ThangamMP: Housing
.@JimfromOldham: Transport Sec
@PreetKGillMP: International Development
@IanMurrayMP:Scotland
@NiaGriffithMP:Wales
@MarshadeCordova: Women and equalities
@AndyMcDonaldMP: Employment rights
@DrRosena: mental health
@LordCFalconer: attorney general
@Valerie_VazMP: commons leader
Labour don’t have their first female permanent leader. However, Starmer’s shadow cabinet has 17 women and 15 men.
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Virtually all of the Corbynites, save for Long Bailey herself, have been dispatched: Burgon, Carden, Chakrabarti, Dowd, Lavery, Trickett etc

Factionally position of shadow cabinet has veered sharply away from left
Some of the bigger names on the back benches have also been overlooked, save for Miliband

In their place a series of appointments from more or less the centre of the PLP. Largely well liked, unshowy figures. Not unlike the leader himself...
Another of the great survivors, @LordCFalconer rejoins the shadow cabinet. Now served under Blair, Corbyn and Starmer...
List in full. We’ve been told that further appointments to the shadow front bench are to be made in the coming days.

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NEW: Trump says that he will "put on hold" American funding to the World Health Organisation. He says they "missed the call" on #covid19.
If true, the news that Britain is now phoning the United States requesting help for new ventilators will be judged against the fact that we missed the deadline to participate in the EU ventilator purchase scheme, something that we were still entitled to do.
The UK govt could still take part in subsequent rounds of the EU ventilator scheme but has not confirmed that it will do so. This is what the govt said at the end of last month. Image
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NEW: Latest ONS data on #Covid19 shows much higher death rate figures than even we thought. On 27th March the Dept of Health reported 926 total deaths in England. NHS’ revised figures say that in hospitals alone that figure was in fact 1,649.
Why the difference? NHS revised figures allow exploration of cause of death to be carried out, daily figures are more crude and instant.
In the week to 27th March, London was the worst hit region in England and Wales from #covid19 with 237 deaths. Coronavirus therefore accounts for 18.3% of all deaths in London that week.
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NEW: The Prime Minister has been taken to intensive care.

Number 10: “Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital.”
PM was moved to intensive care at 7pm

Before he went he asked Dominic Raab to deputise for him. As far as coronavirus is concerned, Raab is the effective acting Prime Minister
Question will be whether, if the PM gets worse, the PM may have to temporarily resign and someone take the full responsibilities of the office

Assuming the PM is in intensive care, there will be, assuming recovery, a period of convalescence which could take some time
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