shadow health secretary i jonathan ashworth, thank you for jonathan ashworth, thank you for your timehank you for getting in contact - your time on breakfast. thank you. thank you for getting in contact all| thank you for getting in contact all of you today, telling us how we're feeling about the changes, what sort of things you're planning on changing as well. jane has said, today for me is another day in the calendar, with 50,000 new cases per day and rising, i shall continue as before, when a new mass, social distancing, etc. simon says, at some point we'll need to take a risk. todayis point we'll need to take a risk. today is as good or bad as another day. we were talking about nightclubs, brian says, i think he is looking on the funny side, we have been a lockdown for 18 months, and nobody has bothered to learn any new moves for the dance floor. and this is from alison, also e—mailing today, she says for a lot of us clinically vulnerable people, this is a scary time. just want others to remember kindness. we'll have to move forward with respect, as not everyone is moving at the s

shadow secretary of state, jonathan ashworth. i thank the i jonathan ashworth.izer vaccine being just 64% effective at stopping symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission of the delta variant. sadly, being double jabbed means you are still at risk —— a risk to others, yet he is releasing controls on transmissions at a time when infections are rising and hospitalisations will rise as well, so can he tell us what's are the percentage of intensive care beds in general and acute beds that will need to be occupied before, in his view, wider nhs care is compromised? we have heard him in the last week or so tell us that he wants to unlock because he rightly wants to unlock because he rightly wants to unlock because he rightly wants to focus on the monumental nhs backlog, but the rising hospital admissions that are baked into the plan, into the party has chosen, will mean operations cancelled, treatment is delayed and waiting times increasing. will he now be clear with patients at risk of permanent disability that the increase in admissions to hospital will mean that the

the shadow health secretary, jonathan ashworth, criticised those in the government that weren't isolatinge pilot scheme meant it felt like ministers were operating under different rules to the general public.— the general public. there will be arents the general public. there will be parents watching _ the general public. there will be parents watching the _ the general public. there will be | parents watching the programme the general public. there will be - parents watching the programme this morning who have had to struggle with their children sent home as part of the bubbling system, businesses that have had to struggle because their staff have been pinged and they've had to isolate themselves, who will be waking up to this news, thinking, "my word, yet again it is one were sunni rule for them and anotherfor the again it is one were sunni rule for them and another for the rest of us." people will be asking how they have access to the special vip test and release system that applies to them but doesn't apply to the rest of us. butjust beggars belief. responding on behalf of the governm

jonathan ashworth, appreciate _ that buildings are safer. key workers from truro's maine general hospital who have been up maine general hospital who have been up against it during the pandemic are now getting a bit of stress relief. , , .,. are now getting a bit of stress relief. , , , ., ., ., relief. the guys teach you how to net in the relief. the guys teach you how to get in the water. _ relief. the guys teach you how to get in the water. and _ relief. the guys teach you how to get in the water. and how- relief. the guys teach you how to get in the water. and how to i get in the water. and how to breathe. then you are supposed to be able to take that into other stressful situation, do the breathing, getting into an icy cold sea, you can do that in other stressful situations as well. these sessions are _ stressful situations as well. these sessions are run _ stressful situations as well. these sessions are run by _ stressful situations as well. these sessions are run by an _ stressful situations as well. these l sessions are run by an or

the shadow health secretary jonathan ashworth has also been speaking this morning.e restrictions reimposed later in the year. the government has said that its road map out of lockdown is cautious but it is irreversible that they cannot rule out reimposing restrictions at some point if it was necessary other they say it is the last thing they would want to do. they do say that this decision to lift restrictions is being done on the balance of risk in the context of rising cases of coronavirus but also the risk that remains of a new variant of coronavirus being detected which may well not be as resistant to the vaccines is the current ones are, less resistant to vaccines in the current ones are so it is an uncertain time and if you need a reminder that today is not necessarily in return to normal you only have to look to the heart of government where the prime minister is isolating it is country residence in chequers, the chancellor is isolating to, and the... has tested positive for covid and also isolating and working from home. there are obviously going to be mixed

and talking to jonathan anyway and is self isolating. and talking tojonathan ashworth worth giving me fewer details. this contact testing pilot is operating in several places. it includes downing street as a whole. that was already established and set up. it is being carried out in network rail, transport for london, heathrow and border force. network rail, transport for london, heathrow and borderforce. all of those are taking part in this as well. they say that these pilots take an important part in how the approach to testing might evolve. the prime minister eligible on the grounds that downing street was already part of the wider pilot testing programme. eligibility acce ted testing programme. eligibility accepted on — testing programme. eligibility accepted on a _ testing programme. eligibility accepted on a test _ testing programme. eligibility accepted on a test by - testing programme. eligibility accepted on a test by test - testing programme. eligibility i accepted on a test by test basis. but it also points out that anyone taking part must self—isolate when n