Social Care and Healthcare- THREAD

For far too long successive Governments of all political persuasions have failed to constructively and definitively address the related issues of social care for the elderly and the disabled and healthcare. 1/ The present Prime Minister, therefore, deserves at least one cheer for trying to grasp this nettle. The problem is that he has painfully grasped the leaves rather than the roots and in conflating the demands of social and health care. 2/

BREXIT DEAL- THREAD:

I shall vote for the agreement reached with the European Union. I shall do so not because it is perfect - far from it - but because it is the least worst of the options available. 1/24 To have ended the transition period with no deal at all would, I believe, have resulted in an economic stress and uncertainty that, on top of the damage caused to our economy by coronavirus, that would be quite simply unsustainable. 2/24

From a swift reading of the #InternalMarketBill it appears Ministers will be taking powers to make up the rules & the law almost at whim the much-lauded oven-ready deal now appears to have been at best half-baked when it was signed with a flourish as an achievement by the PM 1/6 I fear that while there are some necessary provisions in the bill there will be many on the Conservative benches that, like myself, will be unable to support it without radical revision that allows it to comply with the International agreement that we have signed up to. 2/6