Health Secretary Matt Hancock
THE government promised today to consider scrapping fines handed to families who have travelled during lockdown for childcare purposes.
It comes after PM Boris Johnson’s government was accused of double standards — even from Tory MPs — for backing his senior adviser over his much criticised road trip from London to Durham.
Dominic Cummings claimed he had made the trip to visit his family as he and his wife, who were both ill with suspected coronavirus, feared that they could not look after their four-year-old son.
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families