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Boris Johnson's 40 new hospitals pledge faces watchdog reviewThe Conservatives' 2019 election pledge to build 40 new hospitals by 2030 faces a review by the government's spending watchdog.Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting asked for an investigation into delays surrounding the programme and warned of taxpayers' money being wasted.The National Audit Office (NAO) intends to conduct a "value for money review" later this year, its comptroller said.Mr Streeting accused the Tories of "overpromising and underdelivering".The 2019 Conservatives' manifesto said: "We will build and fund 40 new hospitals over the next 10 years."Boris Johnson repeated this promise, and has spoken of "40 more hospitals".However, a "new" hospital has not been defined as solely a new construction.
Home Office claims migrant boat pilots ‘face life behind bars’ are false, CPS guidance suggestsExclusive: Official guidance for prosecutors says that sentences of two to three years are ‘appropriate’ The government said the new measures included "tougher penalties for those who pilot a small boat or smuggle migrants into the UK via other dangerous or illegal means, with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment".Priti Patel added: "These new measures will enable us to crack down on abuse of the system and the evil people-smugglers, who will now be subject to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment as a result of this law coming into force."But prosecution guidelines drawn up by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) say that sentences of between two or three years imprisonment "will be appropriate for pilots of small boats with their 'hand on the tiller'", according to a judgment from the Court of Appeal.A lawyer who has worked on several cases involving Channel boat crossings said that even under the new laws, "nobody is going to be getting anywhere near life".
Wealthy families flee Britain as Tory tax raids take their toll Thousands of wealthy people have fled Britain in the last five years after a surge in inheritance tax bills and repeated raids by Tory chancellors.The UK has lost 12,000 rich people since 2017 and is set to suffer more heavy net outflows of millionaires this year, according to research by migration consultancy Henley & Partners and data firm New World Wealth.
11 of the most common diet myths, busted by Professor Tim SpectorThe epidemiologist and microbiome expert separates truth from fiction when it comes to food, exercise and losing weight‘The best way to lose weight, believe me, is to eat less,” said Boris Johnson as he defended the Government’s food strategy after proposals for a salt and sugar tax were ignored.With that “believe me”, the Prime Minister hit a nerve for serial dieters: which parts of the vast smorgasbord of advice out there should we be following to ensure our health and happiness?
Letters show how Boris Johnson backed return of Parthenon marblesThe extent to which Boris Johnson encouraged Greece to launch its campaign to retrieve the Parthenon marbles has been revealed in letters written by the future prime minister to the woman who would head the initiative with unprecedented gusto.In unambiguous prose detailing his affiliation to “the cause”, Johnson, then president of the Oxford Union, implored the Greek culture minister, Melina Mercouri, to put the case for the return of the antiquities before the society, saying her participation in the debate “would be an important step in your campaign”.“If the motion was successful, and I am sure that it would be, it would be a clear message to the British government that their policy is unacceptable to cultured people,” he wrote on 10 March 1986, inviting the actor turned politician to address the union in June that year.“I think the majority of students agree with me when I say there is absolutely no reason why the Elgin marbles, superlatively the most important and beautiful treasures left to us by the ancient world, should not be returned immediately from the British Museum to their rightful home in Athens.”Johnson has always acknowledged the significance to Greece of carvings regarded as the high point of classical art. But in the ensuing years, his tune would change dramatically. Both as London’s mayor and prime minister he has echoed the long-standing position of successive British governments that the antiquities “were legally acquired by Lord Elgin under the appropriate laws of the time”.
Single-sex lavatories to be mandatory in all new public buildings New office buildings, schools, hospitals and entertainment venues must have separate male and female lavatories, ministers will declare this week, in a move to rein in the “forced sharing” of gender-neutral facilities....
QuoteSingle-sex lavatories to be mandatory in all new public buildings New office buildings, schools, hospitals and entertainment venues must have separate male and female lavatories, ministers will declare this week, in a move to rein in the “forced sharing” of gender-neutral facilities....https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/02/single-sex-lavatories-mandatory-new-public-buildings/
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