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10 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
🗳 With his personal authority enhanced, the PM faces a choice

📊The very positive data means social distancing can be safely scrapped

☀️The PM must unleash his optimistic ray of sunshine that we backed to victory in 2019

✍️ @Telegraph | #Road2Recovery

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/1…
🤔The limit on funeral attendees has been lifted over a month earlier than planned. Why stop there?

👉 Social distancing should be completely scrapped from 21 June so businesses can plan to fully reopen & ensure that we are truly on the “one way road to freedom” the PM promised
💉 The Covid Recovery Group position is clear and based on science & data: we can safely unlock domestic restrictions faster than the roadmap

📊 The data we see now proves we’re right

👉 The ONS said last week that even reopening schools didn’t lead to a spike in infections
🤒Like most respiratory diseases, we must remain vigilant about Covid in winter

💉 We have very effective vaccines, booster jabs coming & are learning more about effective treatments

🗓 These tools should enable us to live with Covid, without seasonal lockdowns and restrictions
🙌🏻 Last week, the PM hailed the “good chance” of social distancing being completely scrapped next month

☀️ This should be a moment of unity as we look ahead with confidence for a brighter future, as we reclaim our lives once and for all

👇 I urge the PM to seize that moment Image

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20 Mar
👉 The PM promised the roadmap would be “reclaiming our freedoms” by 21 June

🤔 So, why are MPs likely to be asked this week to retain most temporary provisions of the Coronavirus Act until October❓1/4

#Road2Recovery | ⁦⁦@Telegraph⁩ telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/2…
🚨Extending powers to October raises justifiable concerns that restrictions will be reintroduced in the Autumn

👉 The burden is on Govt to clearly justify to Parliament each measure they wish to retain & explain why they are proportionate, reasonable & grounded in evidence 2/4
💷 You may hear some try to suggest that the Coronavirus Act needs to be extended to October in order to keep the financial support packages in place

❌ This simply isn’t true

✅ Those packages will continue automatically 3/4
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10 Mar
⚠️ The goalposts are being moved again

💉 The benefits from our world-leading vaccine rollout risk being squandered. How so, you may ask?

📊 The data and scientific and medical advice say one dose gives vast majority of protection. The Govt used to agree...until today 👇 (1/4)
💉 The UK’s four Chief Medical Officers say first dose brings ‘substantial protection’ (link below)

🤔 Changing the goalposts (by requiring most people to have second dose before bulk of restrictions are lifted) casts unwarranted doubts on efficacy (2/4)

cas.mhra.gov.uk/ViewandAcknowl…
👍 JCVI say first dose offers between 70-90% efficacy (link below)

💉 We must follow the science, trust the data and believe in vaccines’ proven efficacy

🥅 Why do the tests for lifting restrictions change when we get close to the finishing line? (3/4)

gov.uk/government/pub…
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23 Feb
❗️Key decisions determining the pace of the Govt’s roadmap were based on SPI-M-O modelling

⚠️ Some serious questions arise from the assumptions on which the modelling is based

Thread 👇

(1/6)
Vaccine rollout speed 👇

Assumption = our vaccine rollout speed dropping to 2m a week

Reality (so far) = much better

See more here:

(2/6)
Reducing risk of infection 👇

Assumption = just 48% and 60% protection from first and second dose respectively

Reality = PHE data suggests protection from first dose is 57%-70% and 85% after second dose

See more here: gov.uk/government/new…

(3/6)
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4 Jan
💬 The start of the Oxford/AstraZeneca rollout is excellent news and will provide reassurance to so many. AZ’s chief executive has said they can produce up to 2 million doses a week. 1/6
💬 .@MattHancock told me last week that the NHS is capable of delivering the vaccines at this pace. This must become the central, overriding focus of government and I would encourage ministers to publish daily reports of progress. 2/6
💬 Vaccinating the oldest and most at risk groups dramatically changes the impact of Covid – in terms of deaths, serious health consequences and admissions to hospital. 3/6
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29 Sep 20
The latest Coronavirus Regulations on self-isolation, which were signed off by a Minister at 5pm on Sunday and came into force only 7 hours later, contain some very serious powers that were not in the statements made to Parliament last week 👇(1/6)
It creates a new criminal offence for employers who knowingly allow their employees to go to work when they’ve been told to self-isolate, with liability falling on both the company and its officers. (2/6)
It gives the power to use “reasonable force” to enforce self-isolation not just to police officers – who have special training about using the power safely – but also to PCSOs, anyone appointed by the Secretary of State and local authority employees. (3/6)
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23 Sep 20
Last week, a major change in the rules affecting every family in the country came into force, the so-called ‘rule of six’ – here are my thoughts for @timesredbox on why there needs to be more transparency and scrutiny. (1/4)
There’s no realistic way of enforcing these sorts of rules if the public lose trust and confidence in the Government’s messaging. (2/4)
Our parliamentary system delivers good government by ensuring Ministers have to explain policy, share the evidence which supports it and secure the agreement of Parliament. Good Ministers should not fear Parliament. (3/4)
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