Please see below a readout of the Prime Minister’s
Cabinet words from earlier today.
"As everybody knows this is the first day back for
all of us but across the country hundreds and thousands, millions
of pupils are going back to school thanks to the huge efforts of
their teachers, their parents have made over the last few days and
weeks.
People are going back to the office in huge numbers across our
country and quite right too, and of course we know that there is
still going to be more of this disease, this wretched Covid still
to come and we know there will be more outbreaks and we are
absolutely confident that we are going to be able to deal with
those outbreaks.
And bit by bit this incredible country is getting back on its
feet and recovering from this crisis and we in this Government
are committed as you all know to trying to do everything in our
power to help and that is what we have been doing over the last
few months and that’s what we’re going to continue to do.
And I pay tribute once again to the work of the Chancellor,
Rishi, and his amazing schemes, Eat Out to Help Out - how many of
you have taken advantage of this? I’m shocked that you’re taking
taxpayers money to do it - anyway it has been fantastically
successful.
And we will continue to get this country moving and to defeat the
virus but at the same time we are getting on as you all know with
delivering on our promises and we haven’t stopped, like the
teachers who’ve been hard at work keeping their schools going,
This Government has been getting on with delivering 40 more
hospitals, and 20,000 more police officers, 50,000 more nurses,
you know what we are doing and we are getting on with it.
And from this crisis we will build back better in this country
and we will build back faster, and we will build back greener.
And there will be a lot more to come about the way in which this
Government is going to lead a new Green Industrial Revolution for
the UK.
And there are some very exciting announcements we are preparing
to make in the autumn, that I believe will help to deliver not
only a cleaner, greener country but hundreds and thousands of new
green jobs across the UK.
In the last few months we’ve been sailing into the teeth of a
gale, no question.
And I am no great nautical expert but sometimes it is necessary
to tack here and there in response to the facts as they change,
in response to the wind’s change but we have been going steadily
in the direction, in the course we set out and we have not been
blown off that course.
And that is thanks to you, to the Government but it is
overwhelming with thanks to the British people and the way they
have come together, the way the whole country has come together
to defeat the virus so thank you all for everything that you have
done,
And of course I think there is still going to be some turbulence
ahead and of course things are still going to be difficult on the
economic front and of course we still need to get this disease
absolutely out of our systems but I am absolutely confident that
if we continue in the way that we have that there will be calmer
days, brighter days and calmer seas ahead of us so thank you all
very much for everything that you have done."
