#Ministers

On Prime Ministers not chairing Cobra. No, sometimes they don’t.Page 1 of a Google search “Cameron chairs cobra” tells us that he chaired Cobra meeting on the migrant crisis, riots,
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With almost 27,000 excess deaths in care homes since the start of the pandemic, at least 15,000 due to Covid-19,& with rising infections in care, we urgently need a winter
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On Monday, I led the leadership of the Senate to a meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), over the continuous closure of our universities as a result
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Remembering the King Maker #KamarajNadar on a day when young talented leaders are quitting party & showing their loyalty to the chair & not to the party.Whenever leaders quit party
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Scottish National Investment Bank, announced by Sturgeon, and the ‘brainchild’ of financial ‘wizard’, disgraced Derek MacKay, who, incidentally made unregulated appointment of banker, Benny Higgins, and side stepped Parliamentary sc
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1/The day #Turkey’s constitutional court was due to examine his application regarding the legality of his ongoing pre-trial detention, an Istanbul heavy penal court is considering a new indictment, allegedly
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Deeply dubious about that Reuters report being spun as 'the government completely followed the scientists, who were wrong'. Firstly, that's not what you get when you actually read it and
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The circus that is Bill 10 and the seriously interesting internal rift within the UCPRecall: Bill 10 (passed this spring) changed the Public Health Act. Allowed a minister to create
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2019: Memo: Vallance recommended to Gov -needed to stockpile PPE -organise advanced purchase agreements for other essential kit, -establish procedures for disease surveillance (testing) & contact tracing-draw up plans to
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Ministers constantly claiming Johnson’s “strong”, “resilient” and a “fighter”: you’re spreading misinformation (we can’t beat the virus by being stubborn) and insults those who’ve died. Once you have it, you
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This is a really good thread, and @PhilippeLagasse is right all the way through. The only caveat I have is that many have wished throughout the years that QP be
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I dont beleive Chiwenga wanted Mugabe out per se, was deceived by the cunning Serpent to a point of no return. Observing his mannerisms as VP & aloofness from current
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NEW: How Boris Johnson Sided With "Doves" Over "Hawks" To Slow The UK's Exit From LockdownYour Saturday morning @BuzzFeedNews write through:https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/boris-johnson-sided-doves-over-hawks-lockdown Mos
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Break: Boris Johnson met potential rebel leader Bob Neil and some of his supporters before last night’s Commons vote, raising hopes of a deal in the wake of the government’s
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1/Looks like #HerdImmunity & limited testing is still the plan.The #LockDown ends on 8th May, "Victory in Europe day"Ministers are still working on Johnson's weeks old plan.There is a "gigantic
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The government seems to mean quite a lot of different things by "local lockdown" - it really feels if ministers have the vague sense that flare-ups are going to require
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