Keir Starmer refuses to apologize to pensioners over winter fuel bill cuts
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed he considered sending British troops on a daring raid to steal coronavirus vaccines from EU warehouses, but rejected the idea, saying “everything is wrong”.
The former prime minister asked military chiefs whether the EU could launch an investigation into a warehouse where 5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were being stored amid lockdowns and dwindling global supplies. demanded.
Johnson’s book, Unleashed, is currently being serialized in the Daily Mail, in which he defends his actions during Partygate, describes his time in hospital with Covid-19, and talks about the post-Brexit era. He also talks about the dispute with the EU after the agreement was reached. On the spot.
He writes: “I was angry enough to think about this covert operation because, after two months of fruitless negotiations, I had come to the conclusion that the EU was treating us with malice and spite. It’s not because they did anything wrong. We didn’t do anything wrong. But we’re vaccinating our people much faster than they are, and European voters are much faster. Because I noticed it before.”
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Boris Johnson claims Brexit saved lives
Boris Johnson has claimed that the EU Withdrawal Agreement has saved lives by enabling a faster rollout of coronavirus vaccines.
In “Unleashed,” which was serialized in “Mail +,” he said: We regained control. This means it no longer has to follow the pace of other countries in the European Union when it comes to approving vaccines.
“We had our own agency, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and we were able to do our own things.
“Frankly, this means that a huge number of older people and It means we were able to vaccinate vulnerable people.” Who could have died from Corona because of drugs?
“It didn’t take long for graffiti to appear on the walls of Portobello Road in west London.
“It said ‘Brexit will save lives’.
“This was not the kind of writing you would expect on the wall of Kensington and Chelsea, which supports the majority of Remain supporters, and some may still find it a difficult argument to digest. It may be painful, but it’s true.”
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Badenoch claims he became working class after working at McDonald’s.
Kemi Badenoch doubled down on her claim that she “became working class” after taking a job at McDonald’s.
The Conservative Party leadership candidate said she came to Britain with “no money, no friends, no parents”.
She told LBC that at that point in her life she was working class as she “had to work to eat”.
“I grew up in a middle-class family, but when I came here I became working-class. My father gave me his last £100 and he said, ‘You know what, we This is all we have, because all our money is gone. This is one of them. People don’t understand,” Badenoch said.
See her original comment below.
After working at McDonald’s, Badenoch says he went from being “middle class to working class”.
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Since the streamlining of winter fuel payments, the number of pension credit claims has reached approximately 75,000.
The number of pension credit claims has reached around 75,000 amid government efforts to encourage people to receive benefits.
Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions released on Friday show the government has received around 74,400 pension credit claims in the eight weeks since Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced the means test for winter fuel payments. It was.
This is up from 29,500 claims in the eight weeks before the announcement.
However, the department received 11,800 claims in the seven days starting September 16, down from 13,400 the previous week.
The majority (92%) of claims made during the week beginning September 16 were made online.
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendal has previously urged pensioners to check whether they are eligible for the benefit, which will exempt winter fuel payments of up to £300.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks about the moment he handed over the Prime Minister’s job to Dominic Raab.
Boris Johnson has written about the moment he was handed before being admitted to ICU while suffering from Covid-19.
In “Unleashed,” serialized in “Mail+,” he says: There was one thing to do before folding.
“I called Dominic Raab. ‘First Secretary of State,’ I said.
“‘PM,’ he said. ‘You know I said you might have to represent me,’ I said.
“Now, the moment has come.”
“‘No problem, Prime Minister,’ he said. ‘I wish you a speedy recovery.’
“He didn’t seem fazed in the slightest. In fact, he continued to do a great job.”
Had Mr Johnson died, Mr Raab would have become interim prime minister while a successor was chosen in a leadership election.
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Boris Johnson said he paid a fine to the party gate because he was ‘doing a lot of things’.
Boris Johnson claims in his memoir Unleashed, which is being serialized in the Mail+, that he saw nothing illegal at his Downing Street birthday party.
Regarding the aftermath of this incident, he writes: “I turned to Sue Gray, who had already been approached (though I didn’t know it) to become former Labor leader Ed Miliband’s chief of staff and would continue to serve as his chief of staff. The plan was to become chief of staff to Keir Starmer, my biggest political opponent.
“Some of the allegations in her report (vomiting, fighting, etc.) were found to be false and had to be retracted.
“For all the other fines that have been issued, over 120 fixed penalty notices, of course I don’t know the answer. I wasn’t there and I didn’t see anything that appeared to be illegal. .If the fine was the same as mine, I must have been a little confused.
“But what can I do? I paid the fine and kept working. I wore them a lot.”
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