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Aug 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Almost 3 yrs into 40 new hospitals programme, investigation via me @AgnesChambre & @BethRigby 👇
- 80% don’t have a completion date or unlikely to be finished by next GE
- Only 20% completed/begun construction
- Just 32.5% are whole new hospitals 1/4 news.sky.com/story/majority…
We spoke exclusively to Julian Hartley, Chief Exec at one of the 40 hospitals, in Leeds. “We don’t have an actual start date yet because we are waiting for the green light from govt… we are very keen to move.” 2/4
Oct 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🚨🎥Watch!🎥🚨@theresecoffey speaking to @BethRigby on the governments new Kickstart scheme which launched this month, with 65,000 applications already.
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The DWP are “ready to help” up to 4 million people that they are anticipating could be unemployed as result of COVID crisis in worse case scenario.
Sep 4, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Conversations about the Union often boil down to a ‘pantomime’ between BJ and NS. But Coronavirus has been handled differently across the four nations of the UK - throwing up fresh questions. @SamCoatesSky spoke to each leader and their citizens. Watch..
Arlene Foster on the damage done by the Brexit deal and how her job is now to “mitigate” against damage to the Union + NI/Republic cooperation through COVID
Jul 23, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Some interesting points in this - raising questios for intergovernmental relations in the future... 1/6
“At every stage,England has moved at a faster pace than the rest of the UK in terms of its messaging” 2/6
May 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Asked whether our lives could change beyond 2020 the PM tells @BethRigby “if you ask me am I absolutely certain that we won’t be living with this for a long time to come - I can’t say that...”
...”It might be that we have to become ever more flexible, ever more agile, ever smarter in the way we tackle not just this infection but potentially future infections as well”
Mar 12, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Prime Minister officially announcing move from contain to delay to tackle coronavirus “This is the worst public health crisis for a generation.” He said “many, many more families are going to lose loved ones.”
PM said they are considering the question of banning major public events such as sporting fixtures. But not closing schools for now - “should only close if they are specifically advised to do so.”
Jan 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
We officially leave the EU in just 2 days. But much of the important stuff that will determine the future is yet to come. If you’ve switched off I don’t blame you - but switch back on to watch why what’s to come, really matters. @SamCoatesSky
In this report we hear that if there is a trade deal, the impact to the UK economy might not be all that different from the one under a no-deal scenario...
