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As Boris Johnson Recovers In Hospital, His Government Faces Mounting Problems On Political, Health And Economic Fronts
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As Boris Johnson Recovers In Hospital, His Government Faces Mounting Problems On Political, Health And Economic Fronts
Your BuzzFeed News Saturday morning story: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Senior ministers say Boris Johnson must not rush back to daily running of govt
— lockdown likely to last to early-mid May anyway
— should act at most as “chairman of the board” for several weeks
— let Raab operate as "CEO"
— PM can make "phased" return https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
— lockdown likely to last to early-mid May anyway
— should act at most as “chairman of the board” for several weeks
— let Raab operate as "CEO"
— PM can make "phased" return https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Trust between No10 and civil service at an “all time low
— Sedwill has tried to “restructure” govt's response by putting a team of senior officials in charge of day-to-day management of the crisis
— accusations of a "power grab" and aides "frozen out" https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
— Sedwill has tried to “restructure” govt's response by putting a team of senior officials in charge of day-to-day management of the crisis
— accusations of a "power grab" and aides "frozen out" https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
A minister’s view of things inside government. There is widespread criticism of Public Health England, which many think post-coronavirus cannot continue in its current form https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Some Tory MPs worry the crisis will change UK politics for years
"The post-election policy agenda on which we won such a huge mandate could now be ruined. What can be saved is an unresolved question" https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
"The post-election policy agenda on which we won such a huge mandate could now be ruined. What can be saved is an unresolved question" https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
“Number 10 advisers think the civil service are a bunch of wets who failed to prepare and got us into the worst crisis since World War 2. The civil service thinks Number 10 advisers are a load of idiots and lunatics who shouldn’t be anywhere near power.” https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Source referenced this meme of two Spidermen pointing fingers at each other, predicting this would resemble Cummings and Sedwill blaming each other at a future public inquiry
No10 say it is “categorically untrue” that aides and officials are at odds
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
No10 say it is “categorically untrue” that aides and officials are at odds
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Scientists on SAGE — the body advising govt on the pandemic — this week investigated concerns that immunity may not last as long as hoped, and about the efficacy of antibody tests— “There is no exit strategy yet” other than ongoing social distancing https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
These concerns became SAGE's main priority this week
— Study in China suggests people who have had coronavirus only had very low levels of antibodies following recovery
— Korea finding it is “reactivating” in people who had previously been cured https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
— Study in China suggests people who have had coronavirus only had very low levels of antibodies following recovery
— Korea finding it is “reactivating” in people who had previously been cured https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Ministers have expressed unbridled fury to the Home Office at heavy-handed policing by some forces
They say it risks “civil disobedience on a mass scale putting thousands of lives at risk”
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They say it risks “civil disobedience on a mass scale putting thousands of lives at risk”
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@CambridgeCops https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Concerns that the chancellor's economic package has FTSE 100 firms "walking around in I 
Rishi t-shirts", but millions have fallen through the cracks and thousands of SMEs could go bust
Estimates that UK GDP could shrink by 25% in Q2 are “not crazy” https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Rishi t-shirts", but millions have fallen through the cracks and thousands of SMEs could go bustEstimates that UK GDP could shrink by 25% in Q2 are “not crazy” https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Main area of criticism of economic response is CBILS
HMT tell BuzzFeed News they've made £453 million worth of loans for 2,500 firms
But comparable scheme in Switzerland has loaned £10 billion to 76,034 businesses https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
HMT tell BuzzFeed News they've made £453 million worth of loans for 2,500 firms
But comparable scheme in Switzerland has loaned £10 billion to 76,034 businesses https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Tory MPs want Sunak to extend wages scheme
— Fears 1000s of new starters missed the cut off point
— uncertainty over how long scheme will last means firms laying off staff
— But HMT worried it simply doesn't have the money for an endless bailout https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
— Fears 1000s of new starters missed the cut off point
— uncertainty over how long scheme will last means firms laying off staff
— But HMT worried it simply doesn't have the money for an endless bailout https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Also fears that millions of self-employed workers will be unable to pay their bills
Many self-employed people have revenues of tens of thousands of pounds per year but profits of just a few thousand, leaving them with a paltry sum from the govt https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
Many self-employed people have revenues of tens of thousands of pounds per year but profits of just a few thousand, leaving them with a paltry sum from the govt https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-health-politics-economics-johnson-cummings
