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Health Secretary Matt Hancock
THE government promised today to consider scrapping fines handed to families who have travelled during lockdown for childcare purposes.
It comes after PM Boris Johnson’s government was accused of double standards — even from Tory MPs — for backing his senior adviser over his much criticised road trip from London to Durham.
Dominic Cummings claimed he had made the trip to visit his family as he and his wife, who were both ill with suspected coronavirus, feared that they could not look after their four-year-old son.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
