good morning. Rishi Sunak The Prime Minister is in Belfast today meeting political leaders including the new Prime Minister Michelle O’Neill, Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengery and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. This is (rare) good news. Because of his two amendments to the Northern Ireland Protocol (the Windsor Framework, announced last February, and the harmonization and strengthening of the Trade Union Protection Framework last week), and the DUP’s eventual cancellation of the two agreements. It is. The boycott campaign in Stormont, Northern Ireland, has seen the introduction of devolved government and the turmoil of Brexit, if not over for good, at least rolled back so it can move forward.
But Mr Sunak will know that the Prime Minister will never be appreciated by British voters for his work in Belfast. So the interview Sunak gave has an equally important story to tell. Piers Morgan on TalkTV tonight. Mr Sunak admitted he had missed his NHS waiting list target.
Of course, the fact that he failed is not news.As part of his last January five vows, Mr Sunak said: “NHS waiting lists will be reduced and people will be able to access the care they need sooner. He did not give a timeline, but the waiting list continues to grow and, like the Guardian, all ratings of Mr Sunak’s pledge last month were a failure.
But getting a front-line politician like Sunak to admit a failure of this scale is another matter, and Morgan made headlines by forcing the Prime Minister into an awkward candor. Last month, he said in an interview about the pledge: sunak He claimed to be “making progress.”But when morgan I asked him about the waiting list and he said, sunak said almost the opposite. “We are not making enough progress.”
The exchange continued:
morgan“Were you unable to fulfill that promise?”
sunak: “Yes, we have.”
morgan: “Now that you’ve said it, the NHS waiting list will go down. In fact, it’s coming down a little bit now. But the waiting list is still almost half a million people higher than it was at the beginning of last year. I accept that. mosquito?
sunak: “Yes. And we all know why, and what I would like to say to people is that we need a record number of people in the NHS, more doctors, more nurses, more scanners.” All of this means the NHS is doing more today than ever before. But industrial action has had an impact. Ta.”
The agenda for the day is:
9:30am: Rishi Sunak will meet Northern Ireland’s new First Minister and Deputy First Minister, Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengery, in Stormont. He has also met Irishman Leo Varadkar.
morning: Mr Sunak is scheduled to hold a press conference.
2:30pm: Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride will answer questions in the House of Commons.
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