Simon Baynes: Coronavirus has been devastating for people with dementia. National governments must do more to help.
I would urge them to work with clinical commissioning groups, local health boards and others to help the vulnerable recover.
No Deal. The spectre of Suez or the power of patriotism?
Mandelson thinks that by aiming to gain everything on Brexit, Remainers ended up with nothing. There is more than one way of history repeating itself.
Richard Holden: This first Johnson year demanded tough short-term decisions. The coming second will demand tough long-term ones.
The towns of the North East, left behind for generations by Labour, will need to see their Conservative MPs forging a durable path to a future.
Robert Jenrick: We’ve made real progress on reducing rough sleeping since the pandemic came – but there’s much more still to do.
This is not an easy issue to solve. Rough sleeping is as much a health issue as it is a housing issue – it is often a crisis of addiction and mental health as well.
Is Macron really prepared to go for No Deal? And if so, is Merkel really willing to try and stop him?
Johnson’s mandate, his party’s Brexit take, and his majority would make climbdown far less likely than escalation.
Philip Davies: Our frontline staff are vital to our economic recovery, and we must do more to support them.
Research indicates that over half of customer-facing staff have experienced abuse from customers since the pandemic began.
Don’t stereotype anti-vaxxers. They might not be who you think.
Evidence suggests the Government needs to tackle people’s anxiety, not conspiracy theories.
David Gauke: How the Conservatives are morphing from a party of power to a party of protest
We have seen it in the context of Europe; we are seeing it in the context of Covid restrictions. We may more of it in tackling the public finances.
Truss tops our Cabinet League Table for the first time
Wallace is well up, Gove down, and Patel much the same in the wake of that bullying report – and Johnson and Hancock just outside negative ratings.
Iain Dale: Let’s hear it for the private sector and hear less about a bigger state
McDonnell wanted a state-run pharmaceutical industry. So now we will never know how it would got on with producing Covid vaccines.
Desmond Swayne: Same old Assisted Dying plan, same old unresolved problem – that it would put the vulnerable at risk
From medical prognoses through doctors’ assessments to non-existent codes of practice, the proposal lacks reliable safeguards.
Our survey. Almost three in five party members back Johnson’s decision about Cummings.
That’s a comfortable majority. But almost three in ten do not – a significant minority. Thirteen per cent don’t know.
Garvan Walshe: Democracies need to pull together to stop Chinese subversion of the open global economy
We deceived ourselves into thinking that as China grew richer, its political system would become more democratic.
David Willetts: Solving our nation’s problems requires a fair deal for the young
They have been handed a raw deal during the course of the pandemic. Investing in them is an investment in our future.
Trust
Many of those who voted with the Government yesterday fear that Johnson is simply making it up as he goes along.