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5 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab says “people should enjoy Christmas and get their loved ones around them” despite soaring cases of omicron.

“I think it’s going to be a great Christmas”, he says, continuing to repeat the line of other ministers earlier this week.

#Marr
“People should go to their parties” he says. It’s up to employers to use their “common sense” he adds.

#Marr
Dominic Raab says the claims of a Downing Street party are “unsubstantiated”. #Marr
“If there was a formal party held then that was contrary to the rules” Dominic Raab does at least concede. #Marr

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7 Dec
EXCLUSIVE: Video obtained by ITV News shows Downing Street staff joking about a Christmas party on 18th December last year.

No 10 has spent the past week denying any rules were broken. This new evidence calls that into question.

Full video here: itv.com/news/2021-12-0…
NEW: In response, Labour leader Keir Starmer says…

“To lie and to laugh about those lies is shameful.

The Prime Minister now needs to come clean, and apologise. It cannot be one rule for the Conservatives and another for everyone else.”
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26 Nov
BREAKING: Priti Patel’s meeting in France on Sunday has been cancelled by the French government.

A remarkable snub as the French fume over the PM’s letter yesterday setting out a five point plan which placed much of the onus for the migrant crisis in the channel on France.
Anglo-French relations appear to be at rock bottom just as cooperation is desperately needed to stop more people dying on the perilous journey across the channel.
UK officials had been due to meet French officials today too. Not clear if that meeting will still go ahead.

And Sunday’s meeting between Priti Patel and her French counterpart had also been due to include representatives from other European governments. Will they still meet?
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25 Nov
BREAKING: Home Secretary says she has asked France once again to allow joint patrols on French beaches to do “absolutely whatever is necessary to secure the area”.

Yesterday’s deaths were a “shock, but not a surprise” she says.

Effort must be focused on “smashing” traffickers.
Priti Patel insists she is not heartless.

“We are not working to end these crossings because we don’t care or are heartless. The UK has a clear and a generous and a humane approach” she insists. But people “must come here legally”.
Home Secretary is essentially making three arguments here:

1. The first problem is smugglers

2. The second problem is France

3. The solution is international cooperation and the government’s tougher measures contained in the Nationality and Borders Bill.
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12 Oct
BREAKING: The number of carers is falling in England for the first time.

Not only are over 100k roles vacant, but carers are now leaving faster than they can be replaced, according to @skillsforcare.

Fits with what we've been reporting for months 👇

itv.com/news/2021-09-0…
This matters hugely because care providers no longer have enough staff to look after clients.

Around a third of providers are handing contracts back, ie stopping care.

That leaves some vulnerable people waiting months for another provider, going without the most basic needs.
There is also a huge knock-on for the NHS, because the care sector is vital in helping people out of hospital and back to their own homes / care homes.

Several hospitals have already said they are struggling to discharge patients because there is no care for them outside.
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9 Sep
NEW: Oxfordshire hospitals are said to be in a "critical position" tonight due to surging demand and an inability to discharge patients back into the community due to a shortage of care staff.

John Radcliffe hospital has had no space for 24 hours and cannot offload ambulances.
Hospital is currently in Opel 4 (highest level of alert). They say 20 people arriving per hour is usually considered bad, but they are receiving 30-40 per hour.

There is no ITU capacity and all elective surgery has been cancelled. Situation said to be similar across the region.
An urgent appeal has gone out to care providers to help with discharging patients. But as we reported last week, providers are at full capacity due to staff shortages. In fact, 30% are handing clients back because they can no longer care for them. All increases pressure on NHS.
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9 Sep
BREAKING: The government is today launching a consultation on making Covid-19 and flu vaccinations compulsory for *all* health and social care workers.

Care home staff must already be Covid jabbed by 11th November. Now this could extend to NHS staff and carers in the community.
Care sector is already facing its most chronic staffing crisis in history. Care homes expect thousands to quit due to compulsory jabs. Now they might not be able to move to NHS to escape the jab, but care in the community has been really worried about this coming in for them too.
For many it will be inexplicable why anyone in a health / care role would refuse a vaccine. Vast majority - 92% of NHS staff - have had first dose. But fact of the matter is some still don’t want it.

When care sector is already stretched, they can’t afford for anyone to leave.
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