Nineteen Conservative backbenchers spoke against the policy. It’s doubtful whether a top-down targets system will pass the Commons.
With the NHS in no danger of collapse, and lower hospitalisation and death rates, test-and-trace, not lockdowns, must take the strain.
Plus: incompetence, resignations, non-resignations, reputations, my holiday, Any Questions and Finkelstein’s book.
Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
Defeating “the blob” requires attracting more good people into the teaching profession. Then giving the power to make a difference.
The Government is poised to reverse the trend to competition rather than collaboration that has marked healthcare policy for 30 years.
Four members from the 2019 intake make the top 50, beating longer-serving and higher-ranked colleagues.
After the Labour leader sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey, others expect Johnson to be tougher on his adviser and Minister.
And the threat to the NHS seems distant enough to experiment with the relaxation of the two metre rule.
Some of its problems can be fixed. Others won’t be. And one perhaps can’t be: namely, that this Parliament seems to be incapable of saying No.
He would not conciliate the Liaison Committee by promising to meet it three times a year, let alone by holding an inquiry into Cummings.
The US and UK, along with other countries in Europe, are fighting to ensure that no one is persecuted for their religious beliefs.