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About today. karen says, i am sticking with masks and social distancing, iam sticking with masks and social distancing, i am double vaccinated but it is notjust about me. i wish everybody in this country felt the same. bowden says, im feeling great! we are on the road to some kind of normality. somewhere in amongst the chaos somebody had to make a decision and borisjohnson has made it. t you lot, we would be locked down forever. ash says, johnson asked, if not now, when? my answer would when eve...

Of the cold weather. we lose the precious firebreak that we get with the school holidays. if we dont do it now, weve got to ask ourselves, when will we ever do it? the opposition labour party leader kier starmer has said the lifting of restrictions is reckless and chaotic. his character causes chaos. his leadership causes mayhem. labour does not support the governments plan. lifting all restrictions in one go is reckless. nadhim zahawi, the uks vaccines minister, has defended the timing. there i...

Hospitalisations per day, 100,000 or 200,000 cases per day in the coming weeks and months. how people respond to the lifting of restrictions will be crucial, but were labour, the government is still going too far, too fast. the shadow health secretaryjonathan ashworth has said this morning it raises questions about how sustainable this approach is. i think, given where we are with infection rates rising so rapidly — which we know puts pressure on the nhs, which we know will lead to long covid,...

England, but lets first look at the latest uk government coronavirus figures. 48,161 new infections were recorded in the latest when he four hour period and there were 25 reported —— tony four hour period and there were 25 reported deaths. that takes the average to 45,242. over 46 million people had their firstjab, and nearly 36 million people have had two jabs. paul hunter is professor of medicine at the university of east anglia and us now. good to have you with us again thank you very muc...

Later, we got a completely different statement saying that they would now self isolate and prime minister would be at chequers, the chancellor in his flat in downing street. i think it is pretty clear that this has happened because there was pretty unanimous, pretty speedy outrage at the fact that two senior ministers were not going to have to self isolate because of the scheme we have seen before, michael gove usedit we have seen before, michael gove used it last month. but the outcry was such ...

Health and childrens education and the backlog in the nhs, all of which need to be taken seriously. we will need to be taken seriously. we will need to be taken seriously. we will need to find a way of living with this disease. having said that, with 50,000 new cases per day it does slightly feel that the government mantra of data not dates has been cast aside just for this much lauded freedom day tomorrow and i think if there was more thought given and probably you have seen a bit of this, the ...

And a half hours later, we got a completely different statement, saying that they would now self—isolate, the prime minister at chequers, the chancellor in his flat in downing street. i think it is pretty clear this has happened because there was pretty unanimous, pretty speedy outrage at the fact that two senior ministers not having to isolate. we have seen this scheme used before. her member, the cabinet office minister michael gove used it 0ffice minister michael gove used it last much. —...

Reliance on masks? theyre not the solution — vaccinations are. - in scotland, mandatory use of face coverings will remain in place for "some time". the first minister nicola sturgeon told a virtual meeting of holyrood that the planned easing of restrictions had to be modified, due to the spread of the delta variant. its not a complete and wholesale lifting of all restrictions — it was never intended to be. however, it does restore yet more freedom to all of us. indeed, it is worth emphasisin...

Conceded voters had endorsed the governments approach. and you are quite right to identify that we are still in the middle of many challenging periods of time that we are going to face with the covid—19 crisis at the moment, in particular around new variants. i personally wouldve liked to have seen greater speed and greater urgency in bringing some of these measures forward, but i appreciate the difficult decisions that the cabinet have had to take based on the scientific evidence that theyve ...

At the moment, in particular around new variants. i personally wouldve liked to have seen greater speed and greater urgency in bringing some of these measures forward, but i appreciate the difficult decisions that the cabinet have had to take based on the scientific evidence that they had before them. im glad that you werent pushing for an immediate lifting of mandation for masks. some members of the conservative party have been calling on that in asking for it to be made a matter of public choi...