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• Police interview four over problems at care home in Westminster

  05-01-2020 16:21
  
  Criminal investigation follows regulator’s condemnation of elderly care at Garside HousePolice have interviewed four women under caution in a criminal investigation into the treatment of about 30 elderly people at a London care home, the management of which was outsourced to a private company by a flagship Conservative council in a bid to save money.Care regulators rated Garside House nursing home as inadequate last month following inspections prompted by a whistleblower. The Care Quality
  
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• Johnson must satisfy new Tory voters by unifying NHS and social care systems

  05-01-2020 09:48
  
  The PM won the election by taking former Labour heartlands. Joined-up thinking on health and care would repay that trustLast month, Boris Johnson delivered for the Conservatives an election success driven by Brexit and by a promise of investment in our NHS and public services. Seats in the Midlands and the north that had always returned Labour MPs turned blue for the first time. As the serious job of government begins, the challenge now facing the prime minister is to ensure these first-time Tor
  
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• Letters: democracy is at risk, as well as Labour | Observer letters

  05-01-2020 07:00
  
  The party must choose wisely in its leadership election, for the sake of itself and the countryIt does not need a committee to determine the reasons for Labour’s election defeat: a divided party, an unpopular leader too sympathetic to leftwing autocrats, dithering over Brexit, failure to deal with the charge of antisemitism, an ill-thought-out manifesto. The list goes on (“Defeated MPs call for ‘unflinching’ Labour review”, News).The need is for action and I fear di
  
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