
Looking back at the Budget a week on, its plan for growth is not convincing
The Government can’t deliver levelling up without more supply-side change, localism and public service reform.
The Government can’t deliver levelling up without more supply-side change, localism and public service reform.
Yesterday’s backbench reaction to his Commons statement suggests that most Tory MPs will back his proposals.
This is not the first time that the Prime Minister has been misread by opponents who deluded themselves into believing he was set on No Deal.
Max Caller, the inspector who brought change to Tower Hamlets, has been sent in to the city. The Government could take control.
Fox floated a new Parliamentary committee to “determine that decisions across all parts of Government have been taken on the best available evidence”.
From calling the measures “dystopian”, to criticising Whitty and Vallance’s latest graph, there were some scathing speeches.
Over a third of those who asked a question during a Hancock statement yesterday were to some degree resistant to such shutdowns.
The real one is widely and correctly dismissed as weak. So we’ve had a go at assembling a stronger team. Here is the result.
Plus: incompetence, resignations, non-resignations, reputations, my holiday, Any Questions and Finkelstein’s book.
While pubs and restaurants are happy with the Government’s latest move, there has been backlash from the sports industry.
He would not conciliate the Liaison Committee by promising to meet it three times a year, let alone by holding an inquiry into Cummings.
Others tended either to raise Cummings directly or else stick to their brief. The Science & Technology Chair found a third way.
Britain cannot afford to take so long to incorporate international lessons as the epidemic progresses.
“Instead of firms paying PAYE to the Government, that flow should now be reversed”, the former Business Secretary tells the Commons.
If she wants to sound off, fine. But Johnson brought her back, and she then resigned – claiming he didn’t want a Brexit deal. Why should he heed her now?