Tag: Covid-19

There are fewer hospital beds available for non-Covid purposes, according to IFS analysis.

The former justice secretary appeared to reject Mr Hancock’s version of events as he warned about the need to show “respect”.

"If the Government has nothing to hide, why not just publish the names?  The public has a right to know who was awarded tax-payers’ money, what their links were to those in Government or other people in power."

"Do you suppose they ever have pangs of conscience about this, about the millions of families who will have to choose between being eating and being warm, whilst they enriched themselves from the public purse?"

“Sending billions of pounds up in smoke when NHS and care services are struggling will be hard for them to comprehend."

"They can wear what they want. That's how a free society works.'

"I see Eric Clapton has caught irony,' wrote one person in response.

“Had the Conservatives not been so wasteful with public funds, they would not need to raise taxes on working people during a cost-of-living crisis."

"Ministers have struggled to get their story straight, but it's clear to us now why they have been so backward in coming forward. Has there ever been a Government so allergic to accountability?”