the prime minister is expected to give the go ahead to financial support for firms struggling with the soaring cost of energy. the number of vacancies in the uk hits a record high as the jobs market continues to recover from the pandemic. efforts to recruit young black people are failing to have an impact on racial injustice at work, according to a new report. good afternoon. one of the most important public health failures in uk history that s the damning verdict of mps on the government s early response to the pandemic. a joint report by two commons committees says both ministers and scientists waited too long to lock down last year, costing many lives. and it says there were thousands of avoidable deaths in care homes. the report calls the test, trace and isolate system slow, uncertain, and often chaotic , but there is praise for the vaccine rollout. our health correspondent jim reed reports. it is completely unimaginable, and we are not at the peak yet. in the spring of
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The prime minister is expected to give the go ahead to financial support for firms struggling with the soaring cost of energy. the number of vacancies in the uk hits a record high as the jobs market continues to recover from the pandemic. efforts to recruit young black people are failing to have an impact on racial injustice at work, according to a new report. good afternoon. one of the most important public health failures in uk history that s the damning verdict of mps on the government s early response to the pandemic. a joint report by two commons committees says both ministers and scientists waited too long to lock down last year,
Portugal without recalling and rightly so the 1386 treaty of windsor but there s more to be said about that old alliance and in saying it we see something about the present as well as the past. that is because the alliance rapidly became part of a pattern, that reflected geography and fundamental interests and a pattern which is still relevant today. i mentioned in the brussels speech 18 months ago, that i have a personal interest in the history of belgium and the netherlands, especially flanders, andindeed netherlands, especially flanders, and indeed when i delivered it i was about to visit the blockbuster exhibition about the great flemish painter van dyke, he is an interesting figure because in the 15th century, artists had to be diplomats as well. nearly 600 years ago in 1428, he was here where we stand in lisbon, on a mission from the duke of burgundy to paint a picture of the princess isabella, daughter of the king of portugal. as
Europe also depends on our willingness and readiness to act beyond the content of europe itself. there is no contradiction between these deep relationships based on fundamental interests and are pursuing our own prosperity in our own way, and that is the second point i want to make. i said our influence on the eu now comes to the power of example and hence also through a healthy degree of competition. brexit is about doing things differently, not for the sake of it, but because it suits us and because it creates a greater variety of alternative futures, and history shows that it is genuine competition, regulatory and commercial between states, which has typically been the most reliable driver of innovation and progress. that is what some people call a hard brexit, in its original sense of leaving the eu customs union, it was essential, it was the only form of