Bernard Jenkin: How long can the intensity of vaccination be sustained?

Bernard Jenkin: How long can the intensity of vaccination be sustained?

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Bernard Jenkin MP is Chair of the Liaison Committee, and MP for Harwich and North Essex. The government’s foresight in placing large-scale speculative orders for vaccines in development means that there is now real hope that the UK will emerge from the Covid-19 crisis well ahead of its peers. However, unless this early success is…

Newslinks for Tuesday 26th January 2021

Newslinks for Tuesday 26th January 2021

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EU ‘threatens to block exports of Pfizer Covid vaccine’ “Britain’s Covid vaccine supply is in jeopardy after the EU threatened to block exports of the Belgian-made Pfizer jabs amid a row with UK-based AstraZeneca. Brussels decided to impose tighter controls on exports after reacting with fury to the news that AstraZeneca will deliver 50 million…

Harry Fone: Parish councils can waste money too

Harry Fone: Parish councils can waste money too

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Harry Fone is the Grassroots Campaign Manager for the TaxPayers’ Alliance. The TaxPayers’ Alliance is well-known for scrutinising spending in the higher tiers of local government such as unitary, county, and city councils. However, over the past few weeks my inbox has been inundated with emails from concerned ratepayers detailing the largesse of their parish…
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Rep. Ted Budd Fights to Preserve 1776 Commission

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The fight to preserve America’s history continued Monday as Rep. Ted Budd announced legislation to preserve the 1776 Commission.  One of President Joe Biden’s first executive actions was to disband the 18-member commission, which was assembled by former President Donald Trump at the end of last year. The commission was created to further an understanding…

Travel and the virus. Ministers face some of the hardest decisions yet as they plot UK’s next course.

Travel and the virus. Ministers face some of the hardest decisions yet as they plot UK’s next course.

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Tomorrow, the Government faces an extraordinarily difficult decision: what does it do about international arrivals, given the increasing threat of new Coronavirus strains? Since the “UK” and “South Africa” variants were discovered, ministers are understandably fearful about other mutations getting into the country, which could undermine progress – and, even worse, prove resistant to the…