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The shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, urged the EU to use less inflammatory rhetoric in the row of vaccines.
“I would urge the European Commission to calm down the language, cool the rhetoric and let’s try to work together to get through this crisis,” she told the Marr programme.
I think the Government is right to say we should be guided by the science.
I’ve been troubled by the fact the Prime Minister privately seems to be saying to some of his rebels he’s keen to get this done quickly.
What the vote is this week is about the road map, about easing the road map, it’s about statutory sick pay, it’s about the ban on evictions, all measures that we’ve pushed for, we certainly won’t be standing in the way of the Government in getting this legislation passed.
Asked about foreign holidays, Wallace said:
Even though the United Kingdom is almost leading the world on vaccination rates – over half the adult population [being vaccinated], it really important that we don’t import new variants that would undermine all that hard work.”
I haven’t booked my holiday, I will wait to see what the responses from those task forces in April,
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