UK Border Force at Manchester Airport, stopped a passenger who had the following medicines in their baggage.
The medicines was seized under Regulation 25 (Importation of unauthorised veterinary medicinal products) of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations.
The
Tories are today claiming that they will ‘continue increasing the National
Living Wage’. However, hidden in the small print of their press release they
let it slip that they are planning to water down the existing National Living
Wage.
This
change would leave the average full-time worker on the National Living Wage
£2,283 worse off by 2020.
Earlier
in the Parliament, George Osborne announced that the Tories’ so-called National
Living Wage (NLW) was to hit £9 per hour by 2020. To get here the Tories
promised that it would reach the level equivalent to “over 60 per cent of
median hourly earnings” by 2020.
Today,
they’ve broken this promise and changed their commitment to increasing the
National Living Wage only “in line with median incomes”.
This
means that the National Living Wage will be £8.20 in 2020 as opposed to the
promise of £9 per hour under Osborne.
In
contrast, Labour is committed to a Real Living Wage of £10 per hour by 2020.
Ian
Lavery, Labour’s National Campaign Co-ordinator, commenting, said:
“Theresa
May is taking working people for fools.
“This morning she claimed she was
standing up for working people, but hidden in the small print of her
announcement is a cut to working people’s incomes.
“The Tories cynical ploy to pull the wool
over voter’s eyes won’t work.
“Today’s ridiculous claims are yet more
evidence that this election is a choice between a Tory party that fails working
people and a Labour Party that will stand up for working people and deliver a
better, fairer Britain.”
15 May 2017
The First Minister has today admitted that education standards are falling under the SNP, the Scottish Conservatives have said.
In an interview on the BBC Andrew Marr show, Nicola Sturgeon said she was “not denying” that levels of literacy and numeracy were on the decline in Scotland.
The SNP leader also said she is holding to her promise to be judged on her record on education, and pledged improvements by the next parliament in 2021.
The latest Scottish Survey for Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN) showed a rise in the percentage of pupils who are functionally illiterate from 7% to 16% in the last four years.
Fewer than half of S2 pupils in Scotland were performing well in writing, down from 64% in 2012.
The figures also showed that Scotland’s attainment gap continues to exist, with pupils from the least deprived areas outperforming those from the most deprived areas at all stages – with the gap similar to that seen in 2012.
Scottish Conservative education spokeswoman Liz Smith MSP said:
“Today’s response from the First Minister that she is ‘not denying’ collapsing standards in literacy and numeracy is a tacit admission of failure.
“The recent SSLN statistics made it clear that the SNP government is not doing enough to address the problems in basic literacy.
“There also remains a persistent gap between pupils from the most deprived areas and the least deprived areas.
“After ten years of SNP control over Scottish education, it is simply not good enough for Nicola Sturgeon to say that improvements will be made by 2021.
“Scottish children cannot afford to wait until the next parliament for things to get better.
“It is time for the SNP to put its obsession with independence to one side and get on with tackling its supposed top priority of improving education.”
On 3 May the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it would refer the merger for a phase 2 investigation unless Cardtronics offered acceptable proposals to address these concerns by 10 May.
As Cardtronics has not offered these undertakings, the CMA will now refer the merger.
A decision on the merger will be made by a group of independent panel members supported by a case team of CMA staff. The deadline for the final report is 27 October 2017.
All information relating to the investigation is available on the case page.
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Jeremy
Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party, speaking at the Royal
College of Nursing Annual Conference, said:
I
want to say thank you.
Thank
you to the nurses gathered here today.
And
thank you to everyone in the nursing profession.
And
to all National Health Service staff across Britain.
Our
National Health Service, of which we are so proud, would be nothing without
you.
Our
politicians owe you a duty.
A
duty to ensure you can work with dignity.
A
duty to ensure you are not held back from providing the best possible standard
of service to all your patients.
That
is what Labour offers.
And
let me make it clear today – Labour is ready to step in and save the NHS from
cuts and privatisation.
Every day our General Election team is reminded of the central
importance of this.
At our headquarters in London, the walls are decorated with the
original poster from the 1940s saying ‘Labour’s health service covers everyone
– Tories voted against it.’
Nothing embodies our campaign theme – ‘for the many not the few’ –
better than the NHS.
Universal,
life-long health care, free at the point of need.
However it is being dismantled by stealth.
Over the past seven years, our NHS has been driven into crisis.
A&E departments are struggling to cope. Waiting lists are
soaring and, as we saw last week, Tory cuts have exposed patient services to
cyberattacks.
I would like to pay tribute to how all NHS staff have responded to
this terrible cyber-attack. The stress you must have faced trying to keep
patients safe must have been intense, this was just another example of the
extraordinary lengths you go to every day to keep our country healthy.
And we know our NHS is under threat from privatisation, brought in
by the Health & Social Care Act. The Tories are forcing through NHS
privatisation on a huge scale – £13 billion of taxpayers’ money was handed over
last year to private companies to profit from NHS services.
Nye Bevan once said of the NHS:
“It will last only as long as there’s folk with faith left to
fight for it.”
Be in no doubt that there are those folk.
I am one of them.
And in hospitals, health centres, and communities all across the
land there are thousands of us.
People for whom working for the NHS is a privilege and a pleasure.
Like so many in public service everywhere.
People believe in the founding principles of the NHS.
A service like no other.
Not a service which checks your bank balance before it checks your
blood pressure.
A service for the many not the few.
But Britain is not being run for the many, for the majority.
Across our country people are being held back.
If you’re a student nurse without a bursary, doing a second job to
make ends meet; you’re being held back.
If you worry about your children because they can’t get together
the deposit for a home or afford the rent; then you are being held back.
If you manage a ward and can’t free up beds because of the cuts in
social care; the Government is holding you back – stopping you from doing
properly the job you were trained to do.
In Britain – the sixth richest country in the world – this cannot
be right.
It cannot be right that trained nurses are leaving the profession
for other jobs.
It cannot be right that tax giveaways for the rich and big
business have been put before funding for the NHS, Social Care and fair
treatment of NHS staff.
The RCN has found that nursing shortages have doubled in just four
years.
We could have 40,000 fewer nurses than we need by 2026.
Your pay has fallen 14 per cent in real terms since 2010, but you
don’t work any fewer hours.
That is the Tories’ record.
I wish there could be a public debate on this record with Teresa
May.
Did you hear her on a radio phone in last week?
A doctor from Leeds called Romena told her that she was
considering quitting after 12 years of service – because of ‘crippling
frontline staff shortages which have worsened as a result of the government’s
failure to invest properly in the NHS’.
Romena asked why Jeremy Hunt was reappointed since he’d
demoralised the entire workforce.
Theresa May simply dodged the questions.
She doesn’t want to recognise the truth.
Or the real scale of the crisis.
Theresa May isn’t
listening and doesn’t care.
She herself called the Tories the nasty party.
And now she’s trying to masquerade as someone who cares about
working people.
She’s taking us for fools.
Theresa May and her Tory Government have failed to stand up for
the hundreds of thousands of workers not being paid the minimum wage
She has failed to tackle zero hours’ contracts and employment
agency malpractices.
She’s done nothing for the thousands of workers who have been
unfairly treated but can’t afford to pursue a claim because of tribunal fees –
introduced in the first place by the Tories.
They are still the nasty party.
And if they win this election, the people of Britain are in for
some nasty surprises.
Imagine what would happen to the NHS if the Conservatives under
Theresa May were to have another five years in power.
It would be unrecognisable: a national health service in name, cut
back, broken up and plundered by private corporations.
Only Labour will put the NHS back on its feet. To move towards a
National Social Care Service to give everyone the care and dignity they deserve
and finally make parity of esteem for mental and physical health a reality.
Today we are pledging an extra £7.4 billion a year for the NHS
throughout the next Parliament, including £2 billion annually to modernise
buildings and IT systems.
This funding settlement will allow Labour to:
·
Guarantee access to treatment within 18 weeks, cutting one
million from NHS waiting lists by the end of the Parliament.
·
Ensure those needing A&E services are seen within four
hours, helping another million people each year.
·
Deliver the Cancer Care Strategy for England in full by 2020,
helping 2.5 million people living with cancer.
·
Create a new £500m Winter Pressures Fund to protect patients from
the problems we saw earlier this year.
This is Labour’s New Deal for NHS Patients.
It will give NHS staff the support they need – and deserve – to
give the best possible service to patients.
And we will guarantee that level of service.
We will ensure the standards the Tories have failed to deliver –
and to which patients are legally entitled – are met under Labour.
But Labour also recognises that great services depend on retaining
staff by rewarding them properly.
You go above and beyond every day, and your ballot result
yesterday showed how angry and frustrated your members are after a 14 per cent
cut in real pay under the Tories.
Labour will not put you in that position.
We will lift the public sector pay cap.
And hand back decisions on pay to an independent review body.
Labour wants nurses to be paid a decent wage.
And we will fund training. We
will restore the bursaries for nurses – the vital funding that the Tories chose
to end.
This election will define the future of the NHS as no other.
You can’t trust the Tories with our NHS. It’s too much of a risk
to take.
Labour founded the NHS and we will restore it to good health.
This is central to our plan to transform Britain – our plan to
create a fairer Britain for the many not the few.
We will set out our policies in full in our manifesto tomorrow.
The scale of our ambition will be clear – it will be inclusive,
fair and costed.
We are going to transform Britain, together, for the better.
Only a few weeks remain to take that message to the people of
Britain
To show how we will hand power back to you.
So that everyone in this country has a stake in their future
A future, a Britain, for the many, not the few.