Covid, pay rises, and social care to greet Sajid Javid as new Health Secretary
Sajid Javid takes on the role as leaders fear a ‘perfect storm’ this winter.
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Sajid Javid takes on the role as leaders fear a ‘perfect storm’ this winter.
The powerful don’t answer for their deeds. Look at the latest from the tragedy’s inquiry A poster featuring Robert Black, charged by Kensington and Chelsea to manage its property. Photograph: Tim Ireland/AP A poster featuring Robert Black, charged by Kensington and Chelsea to manage its property. Photograph: Tim Ireland/AP Sun 27 Jun 2021 02.30 EDT Last modified on Sun 27 Jun 2021 04.01 EDT Being accountable for one’s actions seems about as fashionable these days as a foreign holiday. It is telling that Dido Harding can oversee the debacle that was the test-and-trace programme and yet ...
three-year transparency battle against Michael Gove’s department. Can you help us keep fighting government secrecy? Analysis carried out by openDemocracy has found that Coladangelo is one of at least 16 individuals with close ties to the Conservative Party to have been appointed as a non-executive director in Whitehall. Labour’s shadow cabinet minister Angela Rayner accused ministers of “using every opportunity they can to do favours for their chums”, while transparency campaigners warned that the current system of non-executive director appointments “risks allowing political capt...
Former chancellor Sajid Javid faces test as new UK Health secretary Sun, 27th Jun 2021 09:51 (Alliance News) - Sajid Javid's previous UK government roles – that of chancellor and before the home secretary – were great offices of state, traditionally thought of as more prestigious than his new job as Health secretary. But since the coronavirus pandemic hit last year, the profile of the person tasked with keeping the nation healthy has been shot to the top of the agenda. Matt Hancock was a regular face at press briefings and in the Commons, giving updates to the nation on the coro...
'Failing upwards' is often used to explain the inexorable rise of Dido Harding, who Boris Johnson hired last year to create and run Britain's supposedly 'world-beating' Test and Trace scheme.