News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Emergency powers brought in to tackle Covid will be consigned to history, Health Secretary Sajid Javid assured MPs today, saying he does not "envisage" ever having to bring back the Coronavirus Act.
Boris Johnson announced today that all remaining Covid restrictions, including the legal requirement to isolate, will be scrapped this month, saying he expects to end the remaining restrictions a "full month early".
Five petitions relating to the repeal of lockdown measures and vaccine mandates are available to sign on Parliament's petition website. The appropriate links to all five petitions can be found here.
We're publishing a guest post today by Daily Sceptic regular Dr. David McGrogan, an Associate Law Professor, about the Government's reliance on the Public Health Act 1984 to railroad through all the Covid restrictions.
There was plenty of outrage on Twitter yesterday from lockdown sceptics about the renewal of the Coronavirus Act 2020 without a Parliamentary vote, but it isn't the cause for alarm some people believe.
© Skeptics Ltd.