If Johnson has to quit, is it best he does so now?
And if he goes, what’s the interplay between a new Prime Minister and a Conservative leadership election?
Cladding, the bully pulpit, and the rule of law
The Government’s protection of leaseholders is welcome. But indiscriminate penalising of property developers is rough justice.
Johnson’s Expenses Scandal moment?
This is the first reported “staff gathering” to have been formally designated a party and at which the Prime Minister seems to have been present.
Johnson needs a plan for triggering Article 16, whether he wants to do it or not
He has placed an artefact of dangerous power in the hands of a Minister with strong personal motivation to wield it.
YouGov, ConHome, polls, surveys – and who Tory activists think should succeed Johnson
The pollster finds the same two future leadership front runners as our survey – but in reverse order.
The emerging consensus for greater choice in healthcare
Private healthcare should be an option for the many, not just the few. The Government should make this option more affordable.
How do you persuade the unvaccinated to get jabbed? Gently does it.
Calling the unjabbed ‘idiots’, as Blair recently did, and coercing them into action is not the way forward.
The point of Brexit
The final piece in our series this week about leaving the EU – almost a year since the end of transition.
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Professor Pollard’s warning about unsustainable vaccine boosters should actually give us hope
He said that we cannot vaccinate the population every six months. Ostensibly this sounded like bad news, but his message was, overall, a positive one.
The case for cutting the Covid self-isolation period to five days
The policy trick is finding a medium between spreading the virus unnecessarily and cooping people up unnecessarily.
How to cut the cost of living
When it comes to helping working people, a tax cut to hand would be the cancellation of the Health and Social Care Levy.
The Government’s testing system is not the disaster it’s being portrayed as
We have one of the best testing systems in the world. Our frustrations with it are, conversely, a reflection of its efficiency.
Twelve new year hurdles for Johnson to clear
Where is the regulatory overhaul? The families and childcare policy? The Cummings-style strategic plan to turn research success into business success?
Ten predictions about Brexit that have not transpired
We can now conclude that the alphabet soup of official bodies got it wrong. They have not yet proved terribly contrite about it.