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To pay for pensions and care, tax those who are really rich, not older homeowners | Letter

07-11-2023 18:54

Rowan Adams responds to Polly Toynbee’s suggestion that ‘the money is right there for the taking, in wealthy pensioners’ assets’Polly Toynbee says that to pay for pensions and care, “the money is right there for the taking, in wealthy pensioners’ assets” and that “one in five over-65s live in households with assets worth more than £1m” (During Covid, callous Tories knew this about old people: they’re very expensive, 3 November).Bu

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Sunak and Johnson repeatedly pushed against autumn lockdown, inquiry told

07-11-2023 16:18

Covid investigation also told taskforce coordinating pandemic policy had no warning of ‘eat out to help out’UK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak and Boris Johnson repeatedly pushed against lockdown measures during the second wave of Covid in autumn 2020, with the government’s chief scientist accusing the then-chancellor of using “spurious” arguments against new rules, the inquiry into the pandemic has heard.In a day of evidence that placed increasing f

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Sunak and Johnson pushed repeatedly against autumn lockdown, inquiry told

07-11-2023 16:18

Covid investigation also told taskforce coordinating pandemic policy had no warning of ‘eat out to help out’UK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak and Boris Johnson pushed repeatedly against lockdown measures during the second wave of Covid in autumn 2020, with the government’s chief scientist accusing the then-chancellor of using “spurious” arguments against new rules, the inquiry into the pandemic has heard.In a day of evidence that placed increasing f

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Covid taskforce had no warning of ‘eat out to help out’, inquiry told

07-11-2023 14:45

Former head of body set up to coordinate pandemic policy agrees that he was ‘blindsided’ by Rishi Sunak’s planThe government body set up to coordinate Covid policy had no warning about Rishi Sunak’s “eat out to help out” scheme and felt “blindsided” by the Treasury over it, the inquiry into the pandemic has been told.Simon Ridley, the senior civil servant who was made head of the Cabinet Office’s Covid taskforce (CTF) in May 2020, told the in

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Fears of NHS transfers causing care home deaths raised early, Covid inquiry told

07-11-2023 13:50

April 2020 email from No 10 official said evidence from Europe was that once coronavirus enters a care setting ‘many die’Officials raised concerns at the start of Covid that discharging potentially infectious hospital patients into care homes could see “many die”, and that the health department had lost sight of this, the UK inquiry into the pandemic has heard.Simon Ridley, the civil servant in charge of the government’s Covid taskforce, said the Cabinet Office and

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