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Sir Keir Starmer met Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, in Rome and said that sending funds to Tunisia and Libya ‘appears to have had quite a profound effect’ in cutting the number of migrants arriving in Italy. In the seven days to 16 September, 1,158 migrants arrived in England in small boats; eight drowned off France. Sir Keir made a late declaration of gifts from Lord Alli, a Labour donor, including clothes for Lady Starmer. David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, defended the practice, saying that prime ministers ‘do rely on donations, political donations, so they can look their best’. Sir Keir’s hair was observed to be greyer than before.
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About 780,000 pensioners in England and Wales are expected to lose their winter fuel allowance because they will not manage to apply for benefits they are entitled to, according to an estimate by the Department for Work and Pensions. Junior doctors in England belonging to the British Medical Association union accepted a 22 per cent pay rise over two years. Lord Darzi, the former Labour health minister who had produced a report on the healthcare of London in 2007, presented a damning report on the National Health Service, finding that although hospital staff numbers had increased since the pandemic, the numbers of appointments and procedures have not; that there was a serious lack of capital investment; and that long waits in A&E were likely to be causing an additional 14,000 deaths a year. The Prime Minister responded in a speech saying, ‘It’s reform or die,’ and declaring that the NHS would receive ‘no more money without reform’.
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