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Workers with Covid ‘too scared’ to get tested due to lack of cash support, Dido Harding says
Baroness Harding - the head of Test and Trace - told a CBI webinar that the most recent tranche of figures revealed that less than 60 per cent of those who tested positive followed advice to quarantine at home.
‘Huge success’ Tory Minister claims as fewer than 2,000 young people start roles via £2bn job scheme
Another waste of money? The 'Test and Trace' system cost set to rise to 22 billion pounds.
Four deny criminal damage following toppling of Colston statue in Bristol
"We will fight these criminal charges vigorously on behalf of our clients."
Low-paid workers in insecure jobs are more likely to die from Covid-19
People in the lowest-paid, manual jobs were found to have higher rates of coronavirus mortality - sparking calls to increase sick pay.
‘There a number of diehard Remainers who would quite like the UK to break up,’ claims Andrew Neil
"But there a number of diehard Remainers who would quite like the UK to break up, if only only to vindicate their claims that Britain would pay a terrible price for Brexit."
Gordon Brown: UK risks becoming ‘failed state’ unless it reforms Union
It comes as Andrew Neil Tweeted: "But there a number of diehard Remainers who would quite like the UK to break up, if only only to vindicate their claims that Britain would pay a terrible price for Brexit."
Ten billionaires made enough cash during the pandemic to vaccinate everyone on Earth
Oxfam calculated that it would cost £103 billion to vaccinate the world’s 7.8 billion people against the virus - around £6.50 per jab.
Thérèse Coffey dramatically walks out of GMB interview
She accused Piers Morgan of being insulting for repeating her own words on the Covid mortality rate.
‘Economically illiterate’ – Government slammed over plans to ‘increase council tax’
“This Government should not be making families pay the price for their broken promises to support councils."