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Mattie Heaven is a policy and advocacy advisor to the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights. She was Parliamentary Candidate for Coventry South in the 2019 general election. Having lived in the UK most of my life, I’ve been faced with the challenge of explaining why human rights violations in Iran should greatly concern our…

“We ought to build that wall higher”@MarkDrakeford says the UK government’s travel quarantine red list isn’t sufficient to protect against new variants abroad, adding the government have done “the least they can get away with rather than the most that is needed”#Ridge pic.twitter.com/OFRoOFcFXg — Sophy Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) February 14, 2021 Originally found on…

“We are aiming, we are hoping to get schools back” Foreign Secretary @DominicRaab says the government will “review all the evidence” on whether to reopen all schools at the same time or take a more staggered approach on March 8thhttps://t.co/E5qCS7zu8z #Ridge pic.twitter.com/sdo5PIeyjo — Sophy Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) February 14, 2021 Originally found on Conservative…

Now that Dominic Cummings has gone, who will power the Government’s political strategy? The question has been asked since November. Three months later, there’s an answer. Friday evening is the witching hour of news announcements: too late for TV to make much of them, too early for the Sunday papers, with their agenda-setting, to leap…

Anthony Browne is MP for South Cambridgeshire and a former Europe Editor of the Times. There is no doubt that the UK has suffered a severe economic hit as a result of the pandemic, but just how bad? In particular, is it true, as opposition politicians claim, that we not only have the worst death…

Coronavirus 1) Johnson has “three-stage plan for reopening the economy” “Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a three-stage plan for reopening the economy from lockdown that could allow pubs across England to serve customers again by Easter weekend at the beginning of April, i can reveal. A senior Government official has told this newspaper the Prime…

Until roughly the end of last month, there seemed to be an expectation that the vaccines were here; Covid-19 would be put in its place, and that the country would be back to near the old normal by next autumn. Since then, there has been debate among Ministers and their scientific advisers about how effective…