There are real questions to ask about the fundamental problems of the Government’s pandemic response.
Besides, many resent being legally coerced into funding a service whose worldview is completely at odds with their own.
The new variant is a reminder that the world is in it “together” when it comes to beating the virus.
“We don’t expect that the whole country will return to their desk as one on Monday.”
I love experts. I used to be one. But it’s in their nature, singularly and collectively, to lay it on thick.
Vaccine passports could become a Trojan Horse for a domestic pass. MPs must tread very carefully.
While the light at the end of the tunnel appears to be here in the global battle with Coronavirus, it makes sense to plan for the unexpected.
They were designed as a last resort, but as Coronavirus cases have gone up there are more signs of them being put into use.
Government sometimes treats the constraints fatalistically, rather than seeing them as a problem that prices, incentives, and regulations could affect.
The Prime Minister says there are “means of escape” for those in higher tiers, but Whitty suggests that change is months away.
Johnson is being squeezed between dissenting local authorities, an increasingly divided Cabinet – and fundamental problems with test and trace.
With Sunak and Whitty, he says that the Government is “simplifying, standardising and in some places toughening local rules”.
From calling the measures “dystopian”, to criticising Whitty and Vallance’s latest graph, there were some scathing speeches.
He says Coronavirus is “more virulent than flu” and mortality rates will be “significantly greater”.
Furthermore, I will not attend the Conservative Party Conference if vaccine passports are required.