内容摘要：Dr Peter Rabey, HSC Medical Director, said: "There are many positives that can be drawn from this latest KPIs report.

Dr Peter Rabey, HSC Medical Director, said: "There are many positives that can be drawn from this latest KPIs report.

Carol, 66, told BBC Scotland News that they were also left without a reliable phone signal or access to their private water supply.They relied on their log burner to keep warm, used a camping stove to heat tins of soup, and read books by torch light.

"You feel yourself almost shutting down because you're so cold," she said. "You've got no stimulation, you've no contact with anybody. It sounds dramatic but you're just going into survival mode."Due to the effect the power cut had on accessing their water supply, they boiled bottled water on their camping stove to wash themselves.Carol said she was "quite frightened" to use the stove to heat food or water after dark. Without a reliable phone line, they had no way of alerting the emergency services if an accident happened.

"And then there was the worry that log supplies were running out because everyone was in the same situation so I had to drive around [local towns] on Monday trying to get logs," she said. "If we had been without a log burner, we would have been freezing."The couple said their contact with SPEN during the power cut was limited. The text messages they received advising when their power would be restored were inaccurate and in one instance wrongly informed them that they had been reconnected.

When Carol got through to an operator to ask about access to hot food, she was offered Just Eat or Deliveroo vouchers - but the food delivery services do not operate in rural Dumfries and Galloway.

She said they were not offered hotel accommodation and did not have access to the internet to get information about nearby warm hubs, food vans or being reimbursed for additional costs.Interestingly, Sir Keir took issue with the long-standing view of many that immigration helps drive or at least prop up economic growth.

The other context here is the insurgency of Reform UK.Nigel Farage argues, as he has for years and years, that politicians have been far too slow to get how much immigration matters to so many people.

Labour are acutely aware of Farage's capacity to communicate in a way that resonates with those who feel successive governments have not just ignored them on this issue, but belittled and demeaned their views too.That is why the prime minister is using the language he is now.