Cummings 2) The Church of England. People want guidance on God, not sermons about advisers.
Its bishops’ latest attack on Cummings will do nothing to enamour the electorate.
Cummings made a reasonable case yesterday, and his critics should accept it – and move on
Any fair-minded observer would think better of him at the end of yesterday’s press conference than he or she may have done at the beginning.
Cummings 2) He will hold a press conference at four o’clock. This is a calculated throw of the dice.
There can only be one explanation: that the internal polling is dire. If this event doesn’t move it, resignation inches a step closer.
Cummings. The Prime Minister is now gambling on what the ’22 does next.
Assuming no new revelations or his adviser’s resignation, he can either tough it out or order an inquiry.
Cummings 1) At a stroke, the row has weakened the authority of the lockdown
If so much, as Ministers suggest, depends on common sense, nuance, context and common sense, people will draw the inevitable conclusion.
Europe 2.0? How divisions over devolution could stall the Tories’ march on Cardiff
The Party is keen to keep a lid on the issue ahead of next year’s Welsh elections, but disaffected activists and challenger parties are putting it on the agenda.
The triumph of Whatsapp and trouble for the whips
Groups of MPs are able to beat their jungle drums into a frenzy. And the powers-that-be have limited capacity to quieten them.
The Government’s democracy commission, “legal tools” – and boats of illegal migrants
The nub of the matter is that without changes to the law the entrants will keep coming to Britain.
Universities have been in trouble for years. Ministers should seize the chance to reshape them.
With one of the Britain’s top educational institutions moving its courses online, there are big questions to ask about the future of the industry.
The middle way on free and fair trade (and the only practicable one)
People cannot simply be viewed as consumers or producers – there are other dimensions to policy, including the stewardship of the countryside.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson stymies Starmer the Just by accusing him of being negative, disingenuous and soft
The Leader of the Opposition was infuriated by these charges, but had forgotten the imperative need to be brief.
Blood tests at airports, robot microbe killers, and attendants in PPE: How Covid-19 will affect the future of travel
Various new measures are being created to cope with the threat of the virus, with huge ramifications for tourism.
R = Retreat?
The Government has ways of evading commitment to the national reproduction rate of the virus as the determinant of policy.
Rudd is right; we need more women in the Coronavirus “war cabinet”
Gender diversity is not arbitrary identity politics; it matters for decision-making, particularly in the fight against the disease.
Why the track and trace plan is set to be a long hard slog – with its shifting targets, self-isolation questions and “plough waves”
Rolling out enough tests with enough trackers, and then putting effective self-isolation in place, is very much a process rather than an event.