Restock the drinks cabinet. Break out the emergency hair dye. Joe Wicks, if you’re listening, don’t let up on those burpees… yet. Fellow citizens, you ain’t going anywhere. It’s official, people. Three more weeks of lockdown. Yup, that’s nearly another month of this carry-on and still no end in sight. To be fair, Raab had … Read more
HENRY DEEDES: Humanity Hancock’s great care conversion Matt Hancock cut an anxious figure as he gave his press briefing on Wednesday There was a tweaked sense of humility and urgency about the Health Secretary He wanted it to be known he had paid attention to the social care catastrophe The press remains sceptical, asking how … Read more
Yvonne Doyle, medical director of Public Health England, looked mildly blank when the thorny issue of care homes was raised at yesterday’s Downing Street press briefing. Someone had made the not unreasonable point that NHS Nightingale hospital was largely empty, so why couldn’t it be used to provide support for elderly patients from care homes? … Read more
Dominic Raab the grouch is gone… now he’s a far springier stand-in: HENRY DEEDES sees the caretaker boss raise his game at briefing By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:52 BST, 13 April 2020 | Updated: 00:06 BST, 14 April 2020 Dominic Raab’s mood, to use a phrase we hear rather a lot … Read more
With the Prime Minister confined to the Number 10 sick bay, Dominic Raab was entrusted with Monday’s daily Downing Street press briefing. It was not so long ago Mr Raab was staking his claim to be the occupant of this Georgian property. There was an irked, irritable air as he took to the lectern. Ah, … Read more
At precisely 1pm as Sir Lindsay Hoyle called time on Prime Minister’s Questions, Jeremy Corbyn uncrossed his legs, wrinkled his nose and breathed a little sigh of relief. He stood slowly, the old knees creaking a tad, before lugubriously making his way toward the exit, hovering briefly by the Speaker’s chair– no handshakes of course … Read more
Boris Johnson’s sombre television address last night marked a moment in this nation’s life which all who watched it are likely to remember for as long as they live. In what amounts to a dramatic escalation, the measures he unveiled surpass many of the restrictions introduced in the dark days of World War II. The … Read more
Boris Johnson’s sombre television address last night marked a moment in this nation’s life which all who watched it are likely to remember for as long as they live. In what amounts to a dramatic escalation, the measures he unveiled surpass many of the restrictions introduced in the dark days of World War II. The … Read more
Tennis aficionados used to insist that Bjorn Borg had ice in his blood. The bigger the challenge, it was said, the better the Swede used to play. Judging by his appearances over the past week, we must therefore assume that through Rishi Sunak’s bulging veins flows nothing but pure liquid nitrogen. For the third time … Read more
Boosterism is back! The Prime Minister delivered his latest address to the nation on the coronavirus yesterday. His message was fizzy, frenetic, oozing optimism. We have seen a rather different Boris Johnson than we are used to this week. The gravity of this disease has required him to occupy a persona in which he had … Read more