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• The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s cabinet: new faces, not a new direction | Editorial

  16-09-2021 20:04
  
  The prime minister represents the triumph of a politics where some of the people are fooled all of the timeIn Westminster it is often said that politics drives the timing of decisions. But this week’s reshuffle by Boris Johnson is just the opposite: the timing is driving the politics. The prime minister is eyeing an early election, which could come as soon as 2023. He wants his party to be energised by new faces before his party conference. Mr Johnson’s changes are not ideological bu
  
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• England care homes ‘may be forced to close’ as Covid jab deadline looms

  16-09-2021 12:49
  
  Government has ruled care staff must be fully vaccinated with Thursday last day for first jabCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCare homes may be forced to close and thousands of staff risk losing their jobs if they decline to receive their first Covid-19 vaccine by the end of Thursday, ministers have been warned.Providers and unions have warned of an exodus of staff in England due to the government’s requirement for them to be fully vaccinated against corona
  
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• Boris Johnson is stealing Labour’s clothes? He’ll sell you a bridge too | Aditya Chakrabortty

  16-09-2021 07:00
  
  Austerity for the poor, favours for the rich, and not a penny on frontline social care – this is truest blueNaughty Boris! You know the line and its intonation. There goes the prime minister, tearing into the tenets of Toryism with the same puppyish ferocity as his Bullingdon pals used to set about restaurant windows. Ripping up his party’s rules for keeping taxes low and the state small. Pumping billions into health and social care, and risking a mutiny by the very MPs who owe him t
  
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