“The Government pledged £500 million of funding for youth services over a year ago, yet not a penny has been spent. The need for this support for young people has never been more urgent.”
“It’s a disaster. They’re just stopping any exports from mainland UK over to Northern Ireland. We can’t get any trees over from any of the nurseries that would usually deal with."
The average student has paid £1,621 in rent for empty rooms for which they have not received a refund.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, has written to Boris Johnson calling for a focus on “data, not just dates” when it comes to the Government’s approach to the route out of lockdown.
"In reality the biggest threats to academic freedom and free speech come not from staff and students, or from so-called ‘cancel culture’, but from ministers’ own attempts to police what can and cannot be said on campus."
"Sorry, but I don’t think they’re going to make a ‘Billy Elliot’ type film out of your Winchester College, Oxford, Hedge Fund, marry billionaire daughter story mate."
Yesterday a group of 63 Tory MPs urged the PM to lift all Covid restrictions by end of April.
“We do need to be very careful how we proceed,” the foreign secretary said.
Professor Tim Spector, of King’s College London, said the policy of delaying second jabs appeared to be working.