how likely is it that those restrictions could be ratcheted up in three weeks time, rather than wound down, and can you say with any confidence at the moment that people can keep their christmas plans? i m pretty confident, or absolutely confident, this christmas will be considerably better than last christmas. but the new measures aren t the entirety of the government s plan b. advice to work from home and vaccine passports in england are still in the back pocket. i was told that boosting the vaccination programme was more important because even if it turns out vaccines are less good at stopping infection from the new variant, they could still offer protection against serious illness. we must boost the defences we have, which is why booster vaccines are so important, and go really hard and quick to get those booster vaccines across as many people as possible. the prime minister was criticised for not acting swiftly enough in the face of the delta variant. this time he is acting quick
we will require all contacts of those who test positive with a suspected case of omicron to self isolate for ten days, regardless of your vaccination status. and here s one reason why. there are quite extensive mutations on the spike protein, which is an important part of the virus, and the reason that is important is that is the bit which all the vaccines are against, so there is a reasonable chance that at least there will be some degree of vaccine escape with this variant. and the new measures will be reviewed just before christmas. how likely is it that those restrictions could be ratcheted up in three weeks time, rather than wound down, and can you say with any confidence at the moment that people can keep their christmas plans? i m pretty confident, or absolutely confident, this christmas will be considerably better than last christmas. but the new measures aren t the entirety of the government s plan b.
emergency applications on its shadow docket. he also said he s weighing his decision on when to step down considering the dynamics of the court now and these recent shadow docket decisions on remain in mexico and the eviction moratorium. talk to me about the stakes and what you think it is breyer is going to do. as his term wound down, a number of pundits said this was a moderate, consensus driven court. but by the time the term end and the last decisions were in, we saw some of the most important cases had fractured along traditionally ideological lines with the six conservatives voting together and the three liberals voting in dissent. it s perhaps the most conservative court we ve seen in a generation. that also echoes throughout the lower federal courts. that s where president trump was most successful in his domestic agenda in terms of getting judges placed on the federal courts. justice breyer famously said he does not want the search for his
decision on when to step down considering the dynamics of the court now and these recent shadow docket decisions on remain in mexico and the eviction moratorium. talk to me about the stakes and talk to me what you think breyer is going to do? as his term wound down, a number of pundits said this was very much a moderate court a consensus-driven court. but we saw cases have fractured along ideological lines, the three liberals voting in dissent. it is a very conservative court, perhaps the most conservative court we ve seen in a generation. and that also echos throughout the lower federal courts where as you say, president trump was perhaps most successful in his agenda in terms of getting judges placed on the federal courts. what does this mean for justice breyer? justice breyer famously says he does not want the search for his replacement to be one that is overly politicized, but that horse may already be out of the