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• Tory leadership race: Boris Johnson pledges to 'get Brexit done' at hustings – as it happened

  04-07-2019 22:45
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including the latest from the leadership contestLunchtime summaryTheresa May’s speech on Scotland and UK union - Summary 9.43pm BST And that’s all from us for the evening as well. We’re closing this live blog down now – you can read a summary of the prime minister’s speech on Scotland and the union here and a summary of the day’s earlier developments here.And, if you’d like to rea
  
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• Tory leadership race: Boris Johnson pledges to 'get Brexit done' at hustings – live

  04-07-2019 21:57
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including the latest from the leadership contestLunchtime summaryTheresa May’s speech on Scotland and UK union - Summary 8.56pm BST Hunt is asked whether the mandatory foreign aid target should be abolished and that money spent within the UK by a member of the audience who notes that some military veterans are in need. “Oh dear, I’m afraid you’re not going to like the answer I’m going to give
  
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• Tory leadership: May warns her successor not to undermine Good Friday agreement - live news

  04-07-2019 19:45
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May’s speech in Scotland on devolution and the latest from the Tory leadership contestLunchtime summaryTheresa May’s speech on Scotland and UK union - Summary 6.45pm BST Jeremy Corbyn has been furious about a report in the Times last week that said some civil servants were speculating about his mental and physical capacity to be prime minister.The Labour leader wrote to the cabinet secretary,
  
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• May claims strengthening UK union has been 'explicit priority' for her government - live news

  04-07-2019 18:14
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May’s speech in Scotland on devolution and the latest from the Tory leadership contest 5.14pm BST May says the Scottish independence referendum was meant to settle the matter for a generation.But Nicola Sturgeon asked for another vote just three years later. May says she said no because she thought that was wrong. It will be for her successor to decide what to do next, she says. 5.12pm BST BBC News
  
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• Matt Hancock: social care green paper held up by 'partisan politics'

  04-07-2019 16:37
  Labour says health secretary’s claim that delay is due to lack of consensus ‘simply not true’Matt Hancock, the secretary of state for health and social care, has blamed “narrow partisan politics” for the ongoing failure of the government to produce the long-awaited social care green paper.The issue of how to provide social care for the growing number of older people in the UK has troubled successive governments. Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit party MEP Ann Widdecombe branded 'offensive' after likening EU membership to slavery - live news

  04-07-2019 16:34
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May’s speech in Scotland on devolution and the latest from the Tory leadership contest 3.34pm BST The Local Government Association, the cross-party body which represents councils in England and Wales, has challenged the government to publish its green paper on adult social care within the next 10 weeks. Responding to the report from the Lords economic affairs committee report for an NHS-style syste
  
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• Tory leadership: Hunt backtracks on foxhunting and says ban will not be repealed - live news

  04-07-2019 14:33
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May’s speech in Scotland on devolution and the latest from the Tory leadership contest 1.33pm BST Here is Labour’s David Lammy on the Ann Widdecombe speech.Anne Widdecombe just compared Britain leaving the EU to "slaves" rising up "against their owners".It is impossible to explain how offensive and ahistorical it is for you to equate my ancestors tearing off their chains with your small-minde
  
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• When I was diagnosed with dementia I thought it was the end of the world. It's not

  04-07-2019 11:35
  I had to give up my job as a doctor but I have adapted well – and I am still busy, sociable and cheerfulIt’s been almost a decade now since I was visiting my patients and was startled when one started hugging and kissing me. A couple of weeks later, I realised that the woman was a friend I’d known for 20 years. That was how it all started.When I was in my late 50s I began to notice things weren’t normal. At the time I was working as an executive partner in a general pract
  
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• Quantum Care welcomes Elizabeth House Care Home to the family

  04-07-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hertfordshire’s largest care provider Quantum Care has welcomed Elizabeth House care home in Panshanger to the family with a celebration event for residents, staff and volunteers. Quantum Care – who provide specialist residential and day care to elderly people across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Essex – acquired Elizabeth House in June from Welwyn Garden City Housing […]
  
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• Oswestry care home says goodbye to devoted carer

  04-07-2019 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A woman who has devoted her career to looking after other people has finally said goodbye after 35 years of working at an Oswestry care home. Sue Rogers clocked up the impressive service as a carer at the Fairholme residential and nursing home. She started her career when the home was located in Morda Road […]
  
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• Boris Johnson embraces failure. But it’s the rest of us who will suffer for it | Frances Ryan

  04-07-2019 09:00
  From life expectancy to cuts to basic services, Britain is decaying. And this would-be leader will do nothing to stop it“Expectation management” is a well-known tactic in politics, in which a party or politician’s own side plays down hopes to ensure that even the most average performance can be spun into a sign of success. Would-be prime minister Boris Johnson’s entire political career appears to be an example of this: in which a toxic mix of entitlement, class privilege
  
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• Head of Care and Clinical Governance appointed at The Fremantle Trust

  04-07-2019 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Care provider and charity, The Fremantle Trust, has announced the appointment of Krista Brewer to the position of Head of Care and Clinical Governance. With more than 21 years of experience within the NHS, Krista is a registered general nurse whose track record spans a range of social care settings. Most recently she worked for […]
  
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• Want to know what stress is like? Ask my friend from the local authority | Adrian Chiles

  04-07-2019 07:00
  All day long, he makes life-changing decisions for the people he lives among. How many politicians could cope?I was sitting on a tram in Birmingham when a guy tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if I was me. “I just had to ask,” he said, “or I’d never have forgiven myself. I would always have wondered.” I felt most unworthy of this level of interest, and told him so.As we walked down Corporation Street together I asked him what he did for a living. It turned out
  
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• Health of older people suffering in poor housing, MPs warn

  04-07-2019 01:08
  Cold, damp and other hazards exacerbate physical and mental ill-health, report saysMore than 2 million older people are suffering physical and mental ill health and even death as a consequence of living in substandard and non-accessible homes, according to a cross-party group of MPs.Substandard housing costs the NHS £1.4bn every year with cold, damp and other hazards causing falls and exacerbating conditions such as heart disease, strokes, respiratory illnesses and arthritis as well as con
  
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• Peers call for extra £8bn to tackle social care scandal

  04-07-2019 01:01
  Cross-party committee says over a million vulnerable older people left without supportPeers including former Conservative and Labour chancellors have called for an immediate £8bn investment to tackle the “national scandal” that has left over a million vulnerable older people without proper social care support.The Lords economic affairs committee said this would restore access and quality of social care services in England to pre-austerity levels and relieve unsustainable pressu
  
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