Sacking up to 126,000 health and care staff, including 73,000 NHS workers, would endanger lives and cripple services.
So Sajid Javid needs a Plan B if his drive to force all health and care workers in England to be Covid jabbed plunges a sector, already troubled by vacancies, deeper into crisis.
Imposing deadlines for care workers on Thursday and those in the NHS on April Fool’s Day next year is a gamble for the Conservative Health Secretary – and it’s one that isn’t being followed in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
We believe carers and health workers should be jabbed to protect the vulnerable, but daily tests need to be considered as an alternative for the unvaccinated or care might collapse.
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When the real world collides with ministerial diktats, ordinary people are the victims.
Greed rules
IF £900,000 Conservative second jobber Geoffrey Cox has not broken the rules, Westminster’s rules are wrong.
Boris Johnson ’s seeming indifference about one of his MPs earning a fortune outside Parliament is a green light for greed.
Perhaps the reason the Prime Minister isn’t going to bother even speaking to Cox, a lawyer and former Attorney-General, is because Johnson dismissed £250,000 he received from a second job of his own as “chicken feed”, betraying how out of touch he really is.
The Conservative sleaze scandal has revealed a self-entitled elite demonstrating it is in power not for what it can do for the country but what the country can do for Tory MPs.
Top Marcs
Fairness campaigner Marcus Rashford dedicating his MBE to his mother was a Manchester United and England footballer hitting the back of the net again.
Mum Melanie Maynard, who brought up five children while working full-time on the minimum wage and had a charity foodbank warehouse named in her honour, can be as proud of her boy as any parent ever could be.
