How can Covid be decimating care homes AGAIN? Deaths double in a fortnight with 1,260 victims in England last week, official data shows
Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows 1,260 Covid deaths in homes, double 661 figure two weeks ago
Virus now accounts for a startling 40% of all deaths in care homes in England, up from a quarter in December
Ministers have been slammed by families and charities for failing to vaccinate care home residents
Exposing the British Immigration Bureaucracy
Steve Moxon,
The Great Immigration Scandal, Imprint Academic, 2004, 247 pp.
Since 1997, when New Labour ushered in a new era of immigration irresponsibility, race relations in Britain have become so bad even some on the Left have noticed that mass immigration has brought serious and possibly intractable problems. Labour’s careless attitude towards race relations has had many unfortunate consequences: The government abolished the Conservatives’ “primary purpose rule,” which prevented marriage for the sake of gaining British citizenship. It encouraged immigration by extolling its supposed cultural and economic benefits, and lavished work permits, student visas and family reunification permission on hundreds of thousands of applicants. It extended all kinds of “human rights” to illegal immigrants and “asylum seekers.” It presided over various enquiries and reports (such as the
Housebuilders back calls to keep stamp duty holiday
Leading construction companies including Berkeley Homes hit out at the very bad tax and call for long-term reform The Telegraph campaign to make the Covid-19 stamp duty holiday permanent.
The temporary scrapping of stamp duty on homes worth less than £500,000 in July by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to boost the economy threatens a looming “cliff-edge” when it expires on March 31.
Mr Sunak, who is readying a Budget on March 3, has resisted extending the break, which could save buyers up to £15,000.
Sarwjit Sambhi, chief executive of developer St Modwen, said: “For me it s about the fundamentals, we know that we have a housing shortage. We know that the impediment to customers making a decision, a big factor, is the stamp duty that they have to pay.
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It comes amid weeks of negotiations from both sides of the channel after Britain and the EU sought to cement a post-Brexit trade deal. Talks are right up to the line, with the transition period deadline set for December 31.
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The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has claimed a narrow path has opened up for the UK and EU to strike a post-Brexit trade deal. The German EU chief said the next few days are going to be decisive and that talks over enforcing a deal are largely being resolved . However, she noted fishing is an area that remains difficult .