Highly-confusing and complex coronavirus laws were difficult to understand for both the police and the public, former home secretary Dame Priti Patel has said. The senior Conservative told the Covid
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Boris Johnson demanded that “bigger fines” be emphasised as he unwound lockdown restrictions, according to a handwritten note exhibiting “crushing irony” that has been shown to the Covid Inquiry. As
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Police had to put off enforcing new coronavirus laws because they only received the legislation signed off by Matt Hancock 16 minutes before it was meant to be enforced, the
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A woman “lost the ability to talk and became a shadow her former self” after she spent nine months in hospital waiting for a place in a suitable care home,
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Autistic children and those with a learning disability should never be subjected to long-term segregation in hospital – and its use should be “severely curtailed” for adults, a review has
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Food banks have given out a record 1.5 million emergency parcels in a six-month period, including for tens of thousands of first-time users, in statistics described as “extremely alarming”. The
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Rishi Sunak said people should not be criminalised for having nowhere to live but declined to rule out a restriction on tents for homeless people. The Prime Minister also insisted
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Hospitals in England will be allowed to cut back on some pre-planned care to cover the costs of strikes in the NHS, it has emerged. The unprecedented industrial action which
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Former Cabinet secretary Lord Mark Sedwill has apologised for a “heartless” seeming suggestion that chicken pox-style parties could have been held for coronavirus early in the pandemic. The ex-national security
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The Government has been accused of “turning its back” on workers as union leaders criticised the absence again of a promised employment Bill. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak described the
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