Satire “retired” after Steve Baker quotes European Convention on Human Rights
He called new coronavirus measures "a major infringement on a right to a family life".
He called new coronavirus measures "a major infringement on a right to a family life".
The AstraZeneca press release should have noted that it's 70 per cent from Oxford, not 70 per cent from some minor redbrick, so it's actually much better than it sounds.
According to research by union GMB public-sector employees outnumber new MPs’ majorities in 43 out of the 54 seats that the Conservatives won from Labour last year.
The UK has placed orders for 100 million doses of the vaccine from AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
“A number of people – who just happen to share the quality of being friends of the Conservative Party – were just given the nod."
“We have no idea what the virus could do to somebody. I understand people want to get together, it’s been an incredibly difficult year … but at what cost?”
“This is our belief, that cronyism – which undermines the public interest, discriminates against those who don’t rub shoulders with Cabinet Ministers, and shuts out those who lack the family fortune to work unpaid – is unlawful."
“It’s extraordinary that the lockdown is due to lift in just 11 days, and we still haven’t heard a peep from Government as to what comes next."
The departures of Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain have ushered in a thawing of relations with the media, or so the story goes.
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