More than 1.5 million people flew into the UK between January and April while the UK's borders were supposed to be heavily restricted, new figures reveal.
Cummings: Chicken pox parties suggested by top civil servant as herd immunity strategy THE HEAD of the UK Civil Service suggested advising the public to hold chicken pox parties to spread coronavirus across the country, a committee of MPs has heard. Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister s former senior aide, made the claim during an evidence session of the Science and Technology Committee and Health and Social Care Committee this morning. He claimed that Mark Sedwill, former head of the Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary until June last year, suggested telling people they should hold old-fashioned chicken pox parties to generate herd immunity against coronavirus.
Why voters aren’t willing to write off Keir Starmer just yet Exclusive polling for the
New Statesman shows that nearly 40 per cent of voters are unable to make a fair judgement on the Labour leader.
New Statesman, many voters are still unsure about what it is he and his party stands for. Almost four in ten (39 per cent) voters told a poll
conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies across Great Britain on 19 May 2021 that they are unfamiliar with what the Labour Party stands for under Starmer’s leadership. Sixty-one per cent, meanwhile, say they are familiar. While still only a minority of voters, this finding is not encouraging for Labour’s beleaguered leader in the wake of the party’s defeat in the Hartlepool by-election and the loss of 327 seats in the local elections.
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Staff should be deployed to ensure passengers have filled in their locator forms correctly union boss claims
Immigration Services Union s Lucy Moreton said checks at end of line are being carried out by border workers
Their training could be used to check documents at the front to speed up the long queues, she added
She warned that the current waits will only get worse from next week when holidaying Britons return home
Delays were yesterday blamed on not enough Border Force staff present to carry out the locator form checks