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Good Morning. Boris johnson he’s giving a major speech this morning and it’s a rare example of a prime minister’s intervention that isn’t primarily focused on coronavirus. He talks about post-18 education and will say that he is “transforming the foundations of the system of competencies so that everyone has the possibility of training and recycling.” It’s the part of the “leveling” agenda that I wanted to focus on had it not been for the coronavirus.
There are details of the announcement here. And here is the article from The Guardian.
But he will answer questions, and it won’t be long before he is taken back to Covid. This morning he is facing a strong reaction from council leaders in the Northeast to the way the new restrictions were announced yesterday.
Last night Nick forbes, the Labor leader of Newcastle City Council, posted this on Twitter.
Nick forbes
(@nick_forbes)My statement tonight on how more restrictions have been announced for the Northeast today: no local involvement or warning, and no sign of the business support we desperately need to protect as many jobs as possible. pic.twitter.com/ta29YUkWS0
And this is what Martin Gannonthe Labor leader from the Gateshead council told the Today show this morning.
It was announced in the House of Commons and we were not told in advance that the announcement was going to be made. However, we had discussions last week that led us to believe that this was going to happen. They just didn’t warn us beforehand that it was really going to happen. I do not help.
I was inundated with phone calls and emails last night from people asking, ‘Can we do this, can we do that?’ and in fact did not have the precise wording of the regulations in front of us.
So it’s a little chaotic the way these things happen, Nick. [Forbes] He was right to be upset about it.
Here is the agenda for the day.
9.30 a. M.: ONS publishes its weekly death figures for England and Wales.
9.30 a. M.: The Commons Health Committee takes evidence from Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, NHS England Director of Midwifery, and others on the safety of maternity services in England.
11 a. M.: Former MI6 chief Sir John Scarlett speaks at a RUSI event on security and intelligence cooperation between the EU and the UK after Brexit.
morning: Boris Johnson gives a speech on adult skills. As my colleague Simon Murphy reports, he will announce that adults without A levels will be offered a free college course.
12:15 pm: The Scottish government is expected to hold its daily briefing on the coronavirus.
After 12.30 pm: Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, gives a statement to MPs about the students’ return to college.
After 1:30 p.m.: The deputies begin the last day of debate on the internal market bill.
3 pm: Lord Heseltine, the former Conservative deputy prime minister, gives evidence to a committee of Lords on employment and the coronavirus crisis.
Politics Live has doubled as the UK’s coronavirus live blog for some time and given the way the Covid crisis overshadows everything, this will continue for the foreseeable future. But we will also cover political stories that do not belong to Covid, such as the Prime Minister’s speech, and where they seem most important and interesting, they will take precedence.
Here’s our global coronavirus live blog.
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