and ultimately, vaccinating the world in order to live well with covid. and that s what i mean it s about having a plan to make sure we re not constantly doing the hokey cokey on restrictions. yeah. you said just before christmas that you were breathing a sigh of relief that christmas could continue as normal, which sounded to quite a few people like you like you thought the prime minister was right not to bring in yet further measures before christmas. and that you maybe didn t agree with labour s mark drakeford in wales, who did say you could only go to a pub if you had table service and if groups were six max, that nightclubs would have to close, that there would be no fans at live sporting events. is there a bit of you that says, actually, labour uk wide doesn t have to agree with labour in wales? and the other way around. but i, actually, i don t criticise mark drakeford one bit and i think one of the reasons labour did well in the last welsh senedd elections is because of mar
that s what i mean. it s about having a plan to make sure we re not constantly doing the hokey cokey on restrictions. you said just before christmas that you were breathing a sigh of relief that christmas could continue as normal, which sounded to quite a few people like you thought the prime minister was right not to bring in yet further measures before christmas. and that you maybe didn t agree with labour s mark drakeford in wales, who did say you could only go to a pub if you had table service and if groups were six max. that nightclubs would have to close, that there would be no fans at live sporting events. is there a bit of you that says, actually, labour uk wide doesn t have to agree with labour in wales? and the other way around. but actually, i don t criticise mark drakeford one bit. i think one of the reasons labour did well in the last welsh senedd elections is because of mark s leadership in the pandemic. i think i did recognise that these were finely balanced judgment a
john: some in virginia are breathing a sigh of relief after governor glenn youngkin signed an executive mask mandates order making it a parent option. but pushback from some democrats parents and even the academy of pediatricians. hi, mike. good afternoon, some parents of public school students in chesapeake, virginia have filed a lawsuit asking virginia supreme court to block governor glenn youngkin on masks. orders executive order number 2 sweeps aside mask mandates with little respect for c.d.c. guidance, actions taken by the general assembly or the powers vested in school boards. the family has had a fight against the mask mandates in
the latest on this really stronger by a long shot than expected jobs report? the white house, alex, breathing a sigh of relief after they were really bracing for a dismal jobs report expecting that this report would show very few jobs added last month, or even, according to many economists had predicted a reduction in jobs in january because of the surge in the omicron variant with the u.s. reporting more than 800,000 cases per day in january. there was a lot of expectation that that was going to really be disruptive to the pace of hiring and create some really negative economic effects but instead, we had this shocking jobs report, 467,000 jobs added, way more than pretty much anyone had predicted, illustrating that every successive wave of the coronavirus is having less and less of an effect on the economy, as the country starts to learn how to deal with covid
are about to rise so steeply. and a multimillion pound deal for the man who invented wordle for his girlfriend during lockdown as it s sold to the new york times. tens of socials of social health care staff are breathing a sigh of relief after it government u turn means they will not have to have a couple big vaccine or lose their jobs. around 30,000 care workers have already been let go after the policy was introduced in care homes. they say their staff or unwilling guinea pigs in a disastrous policy that has added two recruitment problems. ministers say the proposal is no longer proportionate to the threat from covid 19. 0ur social affairs editor has this. this is a job that gail loves,