This new variant is understandably causing concern but there is no evidence that vaccines will be less effective. We must stay calm and follow the rules.
This should be welcomed by all – because it will carry greater legitimacy among the public who sent us to Westminster to be their representatives.
New guidance helps. But why on earth did it take three months to communicate something so straightforward?
They have existing infrastructure in place. But improved intercity transport is needed as well as building new homes.
For the UK, it would say: “we are leaving and want to make our own rules.” For the EU, it would say: “don’t think leaving the EU is easy”.
It stands to reason that an early return to online learning, or a late return to school, is going to hit the worst-off children hardest.
The Legatum Institute has this week published a methodology for one. We don’t claim that it has all the answers, but it does offer a guide to hard policy choices.
Just as governments of the left develop institutions designed to embed their reforms and make them difficult to reverse, so should the right.
The Political Declaration approves non-regression but not dynamic alignment – elements of which the EU has backed off from.
We will only achieve Net Zero with policies that run with the grain of public attitudes – a top-down approach is sure to fail.
They’re part of a broader move by the Government to rein in some of the more extreme politically correct excesses that went unchecked before.
The new administration will want to look and feel different but, on this issue, it should resist being lured into “compromise”.
Disputes should be arbitrated by representatives of neutral countries that have experience of trading with the EU under different arrangements.
Community pharmacy is not just a key part of primary care. But also helps to stop people from getting ill in the first place.
Repeal will to restore politics – and the electorate – to its rightful place at the core of the United Kingdom’s constitution.