Billions for Scots as Boris Johnson plans spending spree to save the Union
Transport, education and PR war at centre of Prime Minister’s blueprint to thwart Nicola Sturgeon as sources fear ‘awful’ election result
1 May 2021 • 9:00pm
Boris Johnson is planning to spend billions of pounds on new road and rail links and treating Scottish patients on English NHS beds in a desperate counter-offensive against Nicola Sturgeon.
The strategy to save the Union, to be unveiled days after a feared SNP landslide this week, will also offer student exchanges between UK nations and will see diplomats ordered to make the case against Scottish independence in foreign capitals.
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Irish Sea link ‘unworkable in isolation’
An Irish Sea link connecting Northern Ireland with Great Britain “is unworkable in isolation”, according to transport thinktank Greengauge21.
In response to Sir Peter Hendy’s interim report on Union connectivity – which recommends a full feasibility study of a fixed Irish Sea link – Greengauge21 has called for a raft of transport upgrades either side of the Irish Sea in order to facilitate a bridge or tunnel.
Among its suggestions, Greengauge21 has called for a new electrified railway between Stranraer and Carlisle as well as “fast rail onward connections” to the rest of the country.
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COVID-19 Updates | US, EU, UK
Thursday evening, US President Biden marked one year since COVID-19 restrictions commenced in the United States in an address to the nation. He stated the US is on “war footing” in the Administration’s effort to vaccinate the population, while suggesting Americans could return to a more normal routine by 4 July and related US Independence Day celebrations, if they consent to receiving the vaccine. Toward this goal, he announced that by 1 May, every adult in America would be eligible for the vaccine. Currently, adults over 65 years old, those with certain medical conditions and emergency/essential workers are eligible for vaccines in most states/local jurisdictions.