Prime Minister Boris Johnson responds to SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons
MPs HAVE overwhelmingly voted to extend the government’s emergency Covid powers for another six months, despite fears that the Coronavirus Act “continually failed” the public.
The Act was voted through on March 24 2020 under little scrutiny, handing Boris Johnson’s government a wide variety of powers to slow the spread of the virus.
Today’s motion passed with 484 votes in favour versus 76 against.
Our priority must be to defend hard-won protections while linking equality law to trade union power and wider social transformation, says MARY DAVIS, on behalf of the Women’s Liberation Alliance
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Burnham’s U-turn on tackling greedy landlords has let the country down
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
