The political legacy left to Rishi Sunak helps to explain why the Collins Dictionary declared “permacrisis” 2022’s word of the year Inside a paralysed Whitehall ⤵️ 🔴 singharj, janemerrick23, RichardVaughan1 and HugoGye
One such major policy was the £500m adult social care discharge fund, announced by Therese Coffey during her brief spell as Ms Truss’s Health Secretary, which was supposed to direct cash at NHS trusts to spend on freeing up hospital beds for urgent cases, and allow elderly so-called “bed-blockers” back into the community.
“Even the sticking plasters promised to the NHS and care homes to get them through the winter haven’t been delivered. When they do arrive, it will be too late to make a difference.” After Home Secretary Suella Braverman was sacked by Ms Truss for a security breach last month, her replacement Grant Shapps was forced to book hotels to avoid dangerous and potentially illegal overcrowding at Manston asylum centre.
Former ministers inside the Department for Transport pointed the finger at the insistence of Mr Shapps – who was transport secretary before he was promoted – not to allow talks to take place between First Group, which runs Avanti West Coast and TransPennine, on the issue of rest day working agreements, as part of his zero engagement tactics with the unions over strikes.
, where officials continued work on his flagship Bill of Rights over summer despite the legislation being put on the backburner, as Mr Johnson’s premiership became engulfed in chaos, and then ditched entirely by Ms Truss.
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