gavreid
Pretty Words...
Public inquiry announced - but probably won't report before the next election - the Tories are scrapping the Fixed Term Parliament Act. Note what Johnson says about a winter surge (he has also acknowledged today that the Indian variant “of increasing concern”)
"Should [new variants] prove highly transmissible and elude the protection of our vaccines, they would have the potential to cause even greater suffering than we endured in January. There is in any case a high likelihood of a surge this winter when the weather assists the transmission of all respiratory diseases and when the pressure on our NHS is most acute.
So I expect that the right moment for the inquiry to begin is at the end of this period in the spring of next year, spring 2022."
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...08e757a7352776#block-609bc08c8f08e757a7352776
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...0831dd83f77171#block-609bc20e8f0831dd83f77171
"Should [new variants] prove highly transmissible and elude the protection of our vaccines, they would have the potential to cause even greater suffering than we endured in January. There is in any case a high likelihood of a surge this winter when the weather assists the transmission of all respiratory diseases and when the pressure on our NHS is most acute.
So I expect that the right moment for the inquiry to begin is at the end of this period in the spring of next year, spring 2022."
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...08e757a7352776#block-609bc08c8f08e757a7352776
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...0831dd83f77171#block-609bc20e8f0831dd83f77171