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Will Tanner is Director of Onward and a former Deputy Head of Policy in Number 10 Downing Street. Britain’s vaccination success has many parents. Kate Bingham for leading the Vaccines Taskforce. The Prime Minister, Chancellor and Health Secretary for backing its ambitious approach in spite of costs and risks. The scientists, researchers and companies who…
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump filed dueling legal briefs Monday in a clash with prosecuting Democrats over the First Amendment, due process, and something the nation’s eighth president said as Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial formally began. The Senate will try Trump on the House’s single charge of “incitement to insurrection,” blaming Trump’s Jan….
A judge in New York on Friday rejected Democrats’ claims that voting machine irregularities undercounted hundreds of votes for Rep. Ted Brindisi, a decision that means Republican challenger Claudia Tenney will be certified the winner of the election. Lawyers for Brindisi had called for a hand recount of the 325,000-plus votes cast in the House…
RANSON, West Virginia—Drive along U.S. 11 in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and here in West Virginia and you are pretty much roaming through the more conservative enclaves of the region. The road, one of the first north-south routes in the country, takes the traveler through places such as Chambersburg, Shippensburg, and Carlisle, Hagerstown and Martinsburg. The offramps…
Sam Thurgood works with the NHS on hospital building projects, and is Deputy Chair, Political, for London South East. He was parliamentary candidate for Lewisham East in the 2019 general election. Last week, and as covered on ConservativeHome yesterday, the draft White Paper on the NHS in England was leaked, showing the proposed future direction…
Sanjoy Sen is a chemical engineer in North Sea oil. He contested Alyn & Deeside in the 2019 general election. Back in 2017, I spoke of little else than my new set of wheels. First, the smug satisfaction of trading a gas-guzzler for a hybrid. Later, the anguished howls as Sadiq Khan cancelled its Congestion…
Coronavirus 1 ) Autumn jab to ward off mutant strains “Millions of people are likely to need a third vaccine dose this year as ministers step up plans for booster jabs against new variants of coronavirus. NHS chiefs hope that the extra doses can be given at the same time as winter flu jabs as…
Neil O’Brien is co-Chairman of the Conservative Party’s Policy Board, and is MP for Harborough. At last, the happy ending. As EU politicians squabble, we’re vaccinating faster than anywhere else in Europe. The Church of England is allowing cathedrals to be used as vaccination centres, and the footage of orderly queues in Salisbury and Lichfield…
Sammy Wilson is the Democratic Unionist MP for East Antrim, and is Director of the Centre for Brexit Policy. As the full implications of the Northern Ireland protocol begin to be manifested, it is clear that this arrangement, which was designed solely to protect the EU’s Single Market, has destroyed the UK’s internal market. It…
