UK Covid Real-time News: The Labour Party condemns the “reckless” lifting of quarantine of people vaccinated in the US and EU | Politics

Here are some non-Covid lines from Boris JohnsonThe LBC interview.

• Johnson fired his former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, as one of many former assistants who passed Downing Street. When asked about Cummings’ claims that Johnson’s wife Kelly was the No. 10 “pull stringer,” Johnson said:

I don’t want to comment on any of my former advisers’ remarks, they are a lot now… I read it a few days ago; last year I think we have about 220 people reaching the 10th. I don’t know how many people have left, quite a few, and I believe they all have something interesting to say, but do I intend to comment on this.

• He defended the commissioned plan to replace the Royal Yacht. He said he would prefer to call it the new national flagship. He went on to say:

The project will…help to revitalize the country’s shipbuilding industry and provide young people with direct employment opportunities and growth in the industry that the country used to lead the world.

When you consider opportunities in the UK, because we are now competing for inward investment in the UK, we need a place where the best businesses and industries in the UK can come together to showcase what we have to offer.

As my colleague Dan Sabag Report, Ben Wallace The Minister of Defense has stated that the cost of this yacht may be 250 to 50 million pounds higher than initially estimated.

• Johnson emphasized his support for the police, describing the fight against crime as “the basic work of the government, sanitation and sanitation.” He defended the government’s decision not to give officials a salary increase. He says:

No one is more willing to pay our outstanding police officers than I. For the government, we are going through a difficult fiscal period, and I think most people understand this.

The Labor Party said it was “reckless” to allow people who are fully vaccinated in the United States and the European Union to avoid quarantine if they come from the Amber List countries that are expected to be approved by the minister today.what is this Angela ReinaWhen asked about these suggestions, the deputy leader of the party told Sky News this morning. she says:

Right now, everyone wants to take a vacation and get back to normal as soon as possible, but this is reckless.

We know that the entry of the Delta variant into this country delayed the lifting of some restrictions and caused the infection here. We need to make sure that we have performed proper data-driven analysis and that we have checked the international passport of the vaccine.

We also know that people who have been vaccinated can of course still be infected with the virus, so the testing system is also very important and critical.

Rainer also said that it is not yet clear how to check the vaccine status of people vaccinated in the United States. She said that travelers from abroad may bring new variants to the UK.

Therefore, we believe that the current government is not doing enough to protect our borders, and we have not yet obtained an internationally recognized vaccine passport, and this is what the government says they are working on. So it feels reckless.

For reporters, perhaps the most interesting part of Boris Johnson’s LBC interview is that he talked about the threat to the media posed by the government’s review of the Official Secrets Act.

• Johnson rejected the claim The government’s review of the Official Secrets Act poses a threat to journalists. The reporter has been strongly warning of the possible consequences Comments (pdf) Because it recommends that the disclosure of secret information by the press be considered the same as or worse than spies, and it does not include recommendations for specific public interest defenses. Johnson stated in the interview that he did not want to do anything that would interfere with the “normal flow” of news. He says:

I don’t want a world where people are being sued for doing what they think is their public duty…

What we want to do is to ensure that we do not do anything to interfere with the operation of good journalism and bring new important facts into the public domain…

I don’t believe it for a minute [the Official Secrets Act review] The normal process will be interrupted at all costs…The searchlights of the British media will continue to shine [life].

Johnson also stated that he is “full of admiration for the general behavior of journalists.” He believes that there is no universal problem with journalists putting national security at risk. He says:

I think, in fact, editors and reporters when it comes to things that they think should not be placed in the public domain, in general, they do bear a great deal of responsibility, because it may cause harm to national security or public health. Or any other reason.

He also defended the right of journalists to obtain information from what he called “contaminated sources.” He says:

Many of the best and most important stories, whether it’s Watergate or thalidomide or whatever, come from contaminated sources, let me say this. Or from a source who is not obliged to make it public…One person’s perfidy betrayer and irresponsible leaker are another person’s informant.

However, Johnson also failed to explain why. If these are his views, the Ministry of the Interior will continue a review, which reporters believe will pose a threat to some of their normal reports. He did not question the details of the Ministry of the Interior’s plan, but when asked about the matter, he emphasized that this was a “consultation” and that the journalist-related proposal was part of a “comprehensive review of the Official Secrets Act.”

In order to better explain what the review puts forward, please read this Guardian review article-it also has a great byline, written by Duncan Campbell and Duncan Campbell.

Good morning. Boris Johnson The correct interview with Nick Ferrari from LBC has been recorded and it has been running this morning. Ferrari did not try to get the prime minister to make any compelling hard news behavior, but when interviewing senior politicians, it was relatively normal, and there were a lot of relatively interesting lines. The following are the main points of the Covid interview.

We have seen some encouraging recent data. no doubt. But it is too early to draw conclusions…

The most important thing is to let people realize that the current situation still needs to be very cautious, and let people remember that the virus still exists and many people have been infected with it.

The interview was recorded yesterday, so Johnson was not asked about the minister, who did not want to be named. His optimism provided the Daily Mail It’s splashing. But his comment is indeed a rebuttal to his anonymous colleague. The minister told the newspaper:

There were shouts everywhere, but no one noticed. Of course, we must beware of the emergence of some terrible new variants. But beyond that, Covid is about to become the object of your life.

It falls into the background, but it hasn’t changed terribly-maybe you have to test it from time to time…

Actually we are [at the point where herd immunity has been achieved]. We are there. This is just a fact, because about 90% of adults have already received the first dose of the vaccine. We are there.

• Johnson said it is impossible for the government to postpone the plan to end the quarantine for fully vaccinated people who will be vaccinated from Monday, August 16. The government has stated that from the 16th, people who are fully vaccinated will no longer need to be quarantined for 10 days if they have had contact with someone who has tested positive. Instead, they will be advised to take a test to check if they are negative. While the case is still rising sharply, it was suggested that this date may be postponed. But Johnson firmly ruled out this. He says:

August 16th is fixed-the August 16th review date has never had any problems.

I am very happy that this is a country that now has the highest percentage of adults vaccinated in any country in the world-this allows us to achieve our current economic progress.

• He said the UK may see a “very, very strong recovery”. He says:

Work is back, and you will see these data from the International Monetary Fund today. Obviously, if we are wise and continue to take a cautious approach, we can see a very, very strong recovery…

You see that the number of jobs is increasing, and I think for the rest of the year—there will still be bumps on the road—but I think you will see the story of a steady economic recovery.

Essentially, when this point was raised, Johnson simply responded Yesterday’s report of the International Monetary Fund In other words, the United Kingdom is expected to become the fastest growing country among all G7 countries in 2021, together with the United States.

No, I think I will say it the other way around. If you get one, you are doing something very positive for yourself and your family.

There was almost no formal content on the day’s agenda. But, as my colleague Aubrey Allegretti reported, ministers are meeting today and may agree to a plan to allow those who are fully vaccinated in the US and the EU to be from amber-listed countries. Avoid isolation.

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