Parliament should vote monthly from March on ending the lockdown
The most important question today isn’t whether the Government’s plan is right or wrong, but how decisions should be made about it.
The Mordaunt affair. If there’s a ban on Ministerial engagement with the MCB, it must be enforced.
Whatever guidelines there may be on engagement with organisations, no-one will take them seriously if the Government doesn’t do so itself.
Is Johnson under-promising on opening-up in order to over-deliver?
What a bracing springboard it would be to bounce into the local elections with normality returning faster than expected.
Why was there no reference to Islamist extremism in Johnson’s terror speech?
Perhaps the answer is bound up with China – and our inability to focus on more than a single problem at once.
Johnson’s Downing Street. Like an unstable Middle Eastern autocracy – with jihadis, family militias, and outside actors exchanging fire.
The ghost of Cummings haunts Number Ten in the wake of Lewis’ resignation. Who’s in charge – and what’s the plan to see off the SNP?
How even a modest Labour revival in Scotland could return more Conservative MPs
Contra mistaken notions of ‘unionist unity’, the Opposition can reach sections of the current SNP vote that the Tories cannot.
Our next live event: Truss on ‘Global Britain – navigating the post-Brexit world’
The International Trade Secretary joins a panel including Prof Anand Menon, Katy Balls and Paul Goodman.
Frost’s appointment chills the temperature for the EU
The Prime Minister has gone in a week from having a famine of political advice to a feast.
The mass testing ‘blitz’. Cummings’ Operation Moonshot strategy returns.
The Government has put lateral flow tests at the heart of its plans to ease lockdown.
Fifteen million people have been vaccinated against Covid on time. Here are thirty more fields in which Britain leads the world.
The success in procurement and distribution prompts the question of what else we are outstandingly good at.
Protecting free speech. University legislation will help. But ministers need to speak out more.
Williamson’s new policy is an important step – but Conservatives cannot legislate themselves out of the culture wars.
The relaxation of lockdown. Coming soon. Usual terms and conditions apply.
Johnson will be given an assessment of the vaccines’ effectiveness: over 15 million people have received their first dose, and some 500,000 their second.
Downing Street’s reshuffle sees Symonds’ grip tighten
We hope that Finn, Newman and the rest of the new appointees provide a fresh sense of direction and purpose.
Conservative MPs on when lockdown should end. “We should start on March 8.”
But as ever, trying to make out a consensus position is like trying to pick out a tune when a drunk pianist is playing a broken piano.
“We have been terrific at pure research, and useless at translational research.” What our industrial strategy should aim to change.
The best way of thinking about it isn’t to fix one’s gaze on direct subsidies, but to look wider – at our failure to turn British ideas into British prosperity.