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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Full list of Tier 2 and Tier 3 areas just issued by No.10

Tier 3:
Tier 2:
More Tier 2:
Which tier of Covid risk is your area in?

Read here:

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/coronavi…

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12 Oct
Here's the latest Sage minutes data dump re Covid

gov.uk/government/col…
Includes this key Sage recommendation "for immediate introduction".
Of these, the only one that @BorisJohnson went with was reversing his 'go to the office' advice. Image
Of course, it's possible the economists said these measures wd do more economic harm than needed.
But note the lines about: national changes needed; acting now (September) will reduce the time needed for the measures overall ImageImage
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12 Oct
Tory MP looked pretty confused as @BorisJohnson says this re Tier 2: “The Job Support Scheme is precisely available to pubs, restaurants, business (in her constituency) that are facing, that are not able to trade, that may be open but are not able to trade as they normally would”
When it unveiled the Job Support Scheme expansion last wk, Treasury sd it wd apply to firms "whose premises are legally required to shut for some period over winter as part of local or national restrictions"
gov.uk/government/new…
The argument that leaders in areas in likely Tier 2 have made is that their local pubs wdn't get the financial help that those in Tier 3 would get.
ie those allowed to stay open will suffer from 10pm curfew but won't get the state funding that goes to those forced to close
Read 4 tweets
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12 Oct
.@Keir_Starmer refuses to criticise police investigation into @darrengrimes_ re Starkey's racist interview.
"There has to be tolerance of free speech. [But] as a general proposition, there is a line. When people go over the line it’s right that it’s investigated…"
.@LBC
"I think it does sometimes have to involve the police unfortunately...
"When I was DPP there was a lot of focus on whether what people say on social media should be policed or not.
There has got to be a level of tolerance of course...
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19 Sep
On @BBCr4today, Neil Ferguson contradicts Dido Harding suggestion that Sage modelling failed to predict the back-to-school demand surge.
"I should say Sage was never responsible for predicting demand for testing...The *test and trace system* has tended to plan for demand."
Ferguson did say that Sage did not anticipate the surge in testing demand - but that its job is to predict likely *infection levels*, not testing demand.

And adds that 97% of children have tested negative.
Here's what Harding told MPs on Thurs: “I don’t think anybody was expecting to see the really sizeable increase in demand that we’ve seen over the course of the last few weeks. In none of the modelling was that expected...We built our capacity plans based on Sage modelling.”
Read 5 tweets
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18 Sep
Amal Clooney has quit as a UK govt envoy
And yes - it's over @BorisJohnson plan to break international law
The question for the govt is...which lawyers will they persuade to replace those who have resigned?
(Lord Keen has not been replaced as Advocate General for Scotland yet).
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/amal-clo…
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14 Sep
NEW: Boris Johnson's Rule Of 6 has a controversial exemption - for grouse shooting and similar field sports.
Upto 30 people can gather to hunt with guns cos classed as a licensed outdoor sport.
EXCLUSIVE: Cab Office drafted special meeting on exemption

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-jo…
HuffPost has learned that a special meeting of the govt's Covid-19 Operations sub committee - chaired by Michael Gove - was arranged for Saturday afternoon with just one item on the agenda: exemptions for shooting/hunting.
The meeting was pulled just a few hours beforehand with a message to ministers and officials that the issue would be discussed another time via correspondence. But then the regulations went up just before midnight the following day.
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