a patient well enough to go home, but unable to leave hospital because there s no care available. back with the help of friends, she s been keeping a video diary. so what s is stopping you now from going home? no carers. it s just waiting because you can t find any carers that will care for me. there are a lot of people like me, and we re holding up beds and everything, so they should be pushing us out, really. i m lying here in the praying position. the praying position, yeah. they laugh. carers like rebecca and jessica, who work here in the vale of glamorgan, love theirjobs but are under daily pressures. for retired policeman nigel, who has multiple sclerosis, they re crucial for his quality of life after he spent three months waiting for care. if it wasn t for the carers, i at this time of the day now, i would be stuck in the bed. it s like solitary confinement. but the system is under huge strain.
it was honestly it brought you to tears to see how grateful these ukrainians who have had to flee their homeland and these pols who wanted to pull together for them both sides looking at the u.s. military setting up beds, setting up tents, setting up everything they needed so quickly you couldn t believe it. it was overnight, practically. they had it down. and now just legendary units of the u.s. military, and they re permanent now, you have a permanent u.s. military presence there and, mark, mika s brother who s over there, mark said it was extraordinary walking through the same streets that hitler had invaded and the same cities that hitler had crushed. that my father fled. and thestalin came through a
increasing bed capacity by 7000 more hospital beds and more people cared at home. providing new funding to discharge people into social care in the community, freeing up beds, and the community, freeing up beds, and the nhs are working urgently on future plans for a&e and ambulances. and on strikes, there is a lot of misinformation out there, so i want people to clearly understand the government s position. we usually value public sector workers like nurses. they do incredibly important work and that is why we want a reasonable dialogue with the unions about what is responsible and fair for our country. and in the coming days we will update you on the government s next steps. today i want to make a simple commitment. this government will always reflect the people s priorities. people
freeing up beds. this was pointedly a speech that tried to look beyond the array of what many see as crises happening now, to set out what rishi sunak is about and hopes to achieve. five promises. we will halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce debt, cut waiting lists and stop the boats. those are the people s priorities, they are your government s priorities and we will either have achieved them or not. from migrant crossings to the economy, rishi sunak tried to set targets he can be measured against. he also tried to tell us a bit about what drives him, education and aspiration all young people in england study maths in some form until they re 18. his anger at anti social behaviour, albeit without new specific ideas to tackle it. and then there was this. family is something politicians struggle to talk about. beceause you can all too readily be
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