The implications of the crisis are such that Johnson and Sunak need not so much to think outside the box as to trample it to tatters altogether.
Needed during the coming weeks: a Government information campaign for older people, their families, employers and businesses.
Nation states can act decisively when they wish to do so: the EU seems paralysed.
Sensationalising data is all too common in politics. We have to end this trend if we want to keep people safe.
As the old saying doesn’t quite put it, scientists advise, but Ministers decide – on moving to mitigation or anything else.
At the least, we can expect reduced growth worldwide – and a more expansionary Budget next month.
Harmonisation flies in the face of global trends towards equivalence rather than the highly legalistic regulatory formula favoured by the Union.
If Britain joined in a moment of self-doubt, it voted out as a confident, self-assured, optimistic, outward-looking and independent nation state.
There may be greater willingness by Brussels to negotiate following populist successes in the European elections.
Here in Britain, the two main parties are being punished by voters for tearing up their Brexit commitments.
It would need unanimous agreement. Looking at each of the 27’s varying comments, there are six distinct camps of opinion.
Their high-handed dismissal of Cameron helped deliver Brexit. The insults of Tusk and Verhofstadt show nothing has changed.
In his new book, Jeremy Black traces the history of Britain’s relations with the Continent, and how it bears on the Brexit debate.
It should be moved away from how we stop becoming infected ourselves and start to focus on how we stop infecting those who might be at particular risk.