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Breaking: No.10 refusing to apologise for PM's remarks about care home deaths.
PM spokesman: “He was pointing out that nobody knew what the correct procedures were at the time...because the extent of asymptomatic transmission was not known."
New story: huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-jo…
Here is the full exchange between Lobby journalists and the PM's official spokesman.
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And guess what? @MattHancock just repeated almost word for word the No.10 line-to-take.
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Mark Adams chief executive of Community Integrated Care is clearly furious with @BorisJohnson for blaming care homes for covid deaths. Tells @BBCr4today PM has shown a "cowardly" "travesty of leadership" and now resorting to "Kafkaesque" rewriting of history.
His words are the most withering of any charity chief I've ever heard on the PM's handling of the pandemic.
@Keir_Starmer's #PMQs have just been effectively written. And probably Labour's attack ads.
Adams says 1.6m social care workers, "brave people on minimum wage often with no sickness cover", being blamed by the most senior politician in the country is "appalling".
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One key question the PM has yet to be asked:
If you and ministers approved/endorsed Cummings' trip to Durham, why not widely publicise AT THE TIME the exemption that you thought allowed him to travel? So that other parents could act similarly?
The answer may be this: we didn't do that because we feared it would undermine the much simpler Stay At Home message.
And by widely publicise, I mean widely publicise. Ie make clear and *explicit* what those exceptional circumstances were (does the child or parent have this or that medical condition) so that parents could act accordingly.
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The former DPP is gathering evidence. Letter to the Cabinet secretary from @Keir_Starmer
Actually letter is from @RachelReevesMP, but you can bet it will all form part of the Starmer case at PMQs next month. No.10 will be mightily relieved there's no PMQs this coming week, but who knows where we will be come June 3.
Note the clever formatting of the letter. Echoes No.10's own Claim/Response rebuttal used to attack @thesundaytimes
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