Latest updates: government has taken people’s concerns over energy bills into vaccination rollout, says public health minister Maggie Throup
People haven’t seen the full extent of what the government is doing to help with the cost of living crisis, Maggie Throup has said, amid increasing criticism and accusations that Boris Johnson is a ‘lame-duck’ prime minister.
The public health minister told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:
We’ve already put together a 37 billion (package) that is being rolled out and there’s lots of different aspects of that: helping pensioners; helping those on low pay; helping people generally, and people haven’t seen the full extent of that.
Only last week the prime minister’s assistant secretary and the chancellor met with energy companies and they started talking, and also the civil service (has) put together different options to put in front of whoever it is in September, to make sure that very quickly we know exactly how people are going to be helped.
I think it is quite right that we wait for the outcome of the election, we haven’t gotten to go. And I don’t think any candidate should stand down because until we know the actual results on the day, everything’s to play for.
Well, that is a concern, it’s something that we’ve taken into consideration when we looked at our vaccination programmes.
We are rolling out the Covid jab, we’re also rolling out the flu jab, providing as much protection as we can to those who are most vulnerable, and where possible will be co-administrating the flu and the Covid jab so people can have both jabs at one go.
