Polling snapshot. Is the statues and history fracas helping to solidify the Conservative vote?
The blue share in the poll of polls hit 43 per cent on June 2 and hasn’t moved the best part of a month later.
The NHS App. What’s happening with it? And is it really a “fiasco”?
The core of the problem seems to be that both its own system and the Google/Apple alternative pose substantial problems.
The shake-up that the Government needs to rescue education for a generation of children
Johnson has fewer than three months in which to move public opinion – the key to getting schools moving again.
Why Conservatives must get Britain’s nightlife going
Clubs and bars, particularly in London, have been at the whim of harsh regulations for years.
Six months on from last year’s general election, it’s only the LibDems who bang on about Europe
The CBI supports the Government’s timetable and Starmer is keeping his head down. It is quite the turnaround.
Union battles, parental resistance and court cases: why the UK isn’t alone across Europe in getting schools to reopen
France and Germany have also met resistance in trying to get children back to the classroom.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson exudes an impudent freedom and refuses to take Starmer seriously
The PM crashed about in a manner which recalled the short, brilliant, astonishingly abusive career of Lord Randolph Churchill.
Sooner or later, Conservative MPs will have to remaster the vanishing art of Just Saying No
An election that saw them returned to say yes to Brexit and boosterism leaves Johnson vulnerable to events and reality.
With benefit claims reaching 2.8 million in May, the Government needs its next bout of economic innovation
Troubling statistics from the Office for National Statistics show how close waves of mass unemployment are.
No, Prime Minister. Overseas aid and foreign policy aren’t “one and the same”
Furthermore, the change creates a brand new cart to put before the horse – that’s to say, the awaited defence and security review.
June 18. Decision time for undergraduates – and the fate of universities
This crisis, though we wish it could have been avoided – is a big wake-up call to these institutions that business cannot continue as normal.
The culture of “special measures” prepares to counter the threat of the virus
And the threat to the NHS seems distant enough to experiment with the relaxation of the two metre rule.
WATCH: Thomas-Symonds – ‘absolutely despicable’ that someone urinated next to memorial
Shadow home secretary hits out at behaviour of protestors, especially man urinating alongside memorial to PC Keith Palmer.
Polling snapshot. Coming out of lockdown, Starmer’s election and disillusion with the Government are returning us to politics as normal.
There is no evidence from the poll of polls that the Dominic Cummings affair speeded up what has been a steady Tory decline since mid-April.
The Government needs to get a grip on public order policing
In 2020 as in 2011, senior officers have put the well-being of rioters and vandals over the protection of public and private property. This must change.