The National Medical Director and the Chief Nursing Officer have written to all NHS Trusts, GP Practices and providers of community health services to underline that blanket policies based on age, medical condition or disability are not appropriate: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/04/maintaining-standards-quality-of-care-pressurised-circumstances-7-april-2020.pdf. Arr! Ms Mordaunt is a prominent Leave campaigner, and last year there was speculation she might resign over Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement.

“We’re about making life better for people in our patch, and sometimes that involves us doing daft things,” she explained shortly afterwards. Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA. Ms Mordaunt failed in her first attempt at the Portsmouth North seat in 2005, but overturned Labour’s majority to enter Parliament in 2010 and increased her share of the vote in each of the following polls.

Her appointment to International Development Secretary in 2017 was welcomed by aid charities, who said she would be able to draw on her experience working in hospitals and orphanages in Romania as a student after the 1989 revolution. Penny Mordaunt MP launches 'Food, Festivities & Friendship' campaign to tackle lonelines. She went on Splash, that reality diving show, in January, and emerged with quite a bit of credit after giving all the money she earned to charity and performing one of the great belly-flops of the modern era.

You will hear from me next Thursday with our next update. Former international development secretary will retain the women and equalities brief. Haven't I seen her somewhere away from politics? This week’s email will focus on safeguarding and access to treatment issues during the COVID-19 epidemic. That’s a made-up job, surely? Appearance: Local TV weather person. So she be well versed in the ways of a sea dog? Do say: “I bet the whips were eggs-attic hen they heard about this.”, Don’t say: “It’s Penny Mordaunt. Arr, yet also oww! In fact, she grew up there, and is a naval reservist. What did you eggs-pecked?”, The MP for Portsmouth North has admitted her statement to the House of Commons about cock and hen welfare in which she repeatedly used the word ‘cock’ was a naval prank, Penny Mordaunt, whose speech about cock and hen welfare was delivered as a dare. Well, she had got away with it until she confessed everything at an awards bash last week. That figures for a Portsmouth MP. Born in Torquay as one of twins, Ms Mordaunt moved with her family to Portsmouth at the age of two.

On 26 March last year, she duly did, in what appeared at the time to be a genuine statement about “hen and cock welfare”. This is a deeply concerning approach and will no doubt shock many older people and their families. Royal Navy reservist Penny Mordaunt has become the UK’s first female Defence Secretary. Dear Penny, During the COVID-19 epidemic, Age UK will be providing you with a brief, weekly email with resources and advice that you can share with older constituents. We know that people of any age can suffer domestic abuse, and in 2018/19 we had 655 inquiries on the issue through our own adviceline. Ms Mordaunt replaces Gavin Williamson who was sensationally sacked hours earlier by Prime Minister Theresa May for leaking detail's from a National Security Council (NSC) meeting last month. And this is not the first time Mordaunt has courted a bit of attention, remember. Confessed what, laddie? Ms Mordaunt said it was a "privilege" to be working with the "best armed forces in the world". Or minister for glass? But there be nothing like an infantile prank to get ye through a rough night on the southern ocean! Supporting Disadvantaged Families this Winter and Beyond. And what were the officers’ names? This information, which we have attached, can be shared more widely with other voluntary organisations in your constituency, should you wish to do so. Her beat includes “coastal communities”. Indeed. Penny Mordaunt appointed as first ever female defence secretary after Gavin Williamson sacked over Huawei leak. This week’s email will focus on safeguarding and access to treatment issues during the COVID-19 epidemic. Age: 41. The new Defence Secretary is probably best known outside of Westminster for donning her swimsuit in the ITV TV show Splash! She also made a career in communications, business and charity, becoming director of Diabetes UK. There is no reason to abandon this long-established good practice now; in fact, the current health emergency makes it more critical than ever that we keep it. She was also once accused of trivialising Parliament after admitting she had smuggled repeated mentions of the word “c***” into a Commons speech as part of a bet with fellow reservists. in 2014, when she joined celebrities to be trained in diving by Olympian Tom Daley. The National Medical Director and the Chief Nursing Officer have written to all NHS Trusts, GP Practices and providers of community health services to underline that blanket policies based on age, medical condition or disability are not appropriate: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/04/maintaining-standards-quality-of-care-pressurised-circumstances-7-april-2020.pdf. If you have older constituents, friends or family that you are concerned about at this time, they may benefit from our telephone befriending service. For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, see our cookie policy. The daughter of a paratrooper-turned-teacher, she is a Royal Navy reservist, serving as an acting sub-lieutenant of the Portsmouth-based HMS King Alfred. For the sea-prankster, context be everything. More about this role Cabinet Office.

To make such decisions without considering either an older person’s needs or their capacity to benefit from hospital treatment would be discriminatory and unfair. That be less appropriate.

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Many of those over 70 will be social-distancing or shielding alone. Perhaps a bit too well versed in the pranks and swearing. Born in Torquay as one of twins, Ms Mordaunt moved with her family to Portsmouth at the age …

Portsmouth MP and Naval reservist Penny Mordaunt, 43, shot to fame after stripping down to appear on cheesy ITV diving show Splash! Safeguarding advice All of your older constitu 2019 to 2019 Minister for Women and Equalities She was even named after a warship, HMS Penelope.

It means she is the least important type of government minister, one of four in the glamorous and dynamic DCLG. ), Your constituents’ human rights during COVID-19. Credit: PA What did Ms Mordaunt do before politics?