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MORE THAN half of British people believe that the government’s social-distancing measures to tackle the spread of Covid-19 were introduced too late, according to a poll.
The stricter measures introduced by the Tory government on March 23 required non-essential workers to stay at home and businesses to close.
However, 53 per cent of those surveyed in an Ipsos Mori online poll believe the measures came too late.
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON