On the day Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital with COVID 19, Vivien Morrison received a phone call from a doctor at the East Surrey Hospital in Redhill. Stricken by the virus, her father, Raymond Austin, had taken a decisive turn for the worse. The spritely grandfather, who still worked as a computer analyst atContinue reading “How Elderly Paid Price Of Protecting NHS From COVID-19”
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EU’s Banks To Run Out Of Money In Days
The European Union is poised to offer Japan better access to its markets than the United Kingdom, prompting City supremo Catherine McGuinness to claim Britain’s financial services industry was being overlooked during EU-UK trade talks. However, Robert Oulds, director of pro Brexit think tank the Bruges Group, has said the bloc’s infantile endeavours to punishContinue reading “EU’s Banks To Run Out Of Money In Days”
Boris Johnson Trashes Target To Decrease Net Migration To Tens Of Thousands
Boris Johnson has ditched the target to decrease net migration to tens of thousands as he cuts the £35,800 salary cap for skilled UK migrants. The plan, which ditches the aim put forward by Theresa May’s government, was announced in a 507-page rulebook. Under the new proposal, the cap needed for skilled migrants to remainContinue reading “Boris Johnson Trashes Target To Decrease Net Migration To Tens Of Thousands”
To Be Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak Must Dare To Be Disliked
Being the frontrunner in the Conservative leadership stakes seldom ends well, yet this is the position that the chancellor Rishi Sunak, dispenser, for now, of vast sums of other people’s money, find himself in. He’s the favourite to take over at some point as Boris Johnson’s leadership deflates like a soufflé and the Tory tribeContinue reading “To Be Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak Must Dare To Be Disliked”
We Have Seen Boris Johnson At His Most Incompetent Numerous Times. Here He Was At His Most Malignant
On live television, Andy Burnham had just finished making an impassioned plea for the tiny amount of money that will be needed to spare the poorest and most vulnerable people of Manchester from ruination in the wake of new coronavirus constraints being thrust upon them. Reporters had asked a few questions, and then, still, onContinue reading “We Have Seen Boris Johnson At His Most Incompetent Numerous Times. Here He Was At His Most Malignant”
National Circuit Breaker Would Be Unfair, Voices Michael Gove
A national circuit breaker lockdown was ruled out by the Government after Labour said that several might be needed and each could last longer than three weeks. Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, left the door open for a regional variant of the policy, however, by criticising it only for imposing blanket restrictions on placesContinue reading “National Circuit Breaker Would Be Unfair, Voices Michael Gove”
Powerful Voices Now Argue For A More Subtle And Less Distressing Way Of Learning To Live With The Virus
The steps now being imposed on large regions of the country would be severe and difficult to endure if we had grounds to believe that they would do any good. The problem is that we have no shred of tangible proof that they will help at all. The vast illogical web of new rules, increasinglyContinue reading “Powerful Voices Now Argue For A More Subtle And Less Distressing Way Of Learning To Live With The Virus”
Experts Argue Boris Johnson’s Thin EU Deal Will Provoke Major Economic Disorder
The former boss of the Brexit department has warned that the narrow EU deal sought by Boris Johnson will act as a deadweight on Britain’s capacity to trade, amid growing concerns that the country remains dangerously ill-prepared for such an outcome. Negotiations with the EU remained stuck after Downing Street told EU intermediaries not toContinue reading “Experts Argue Boris Johnson’s Thin EU Deal Will Provoke Major Economic Disorder”
Angela Merkel Warns Germany Is On The Brink Of Coronavirus Disaster
The German Chancellor has hit back at local leaders in the country for not supporting her tough coronavirus restrictions. Angela Merkel took part in a marathon six-hour meeting with Germany’s sixteen state leaders to urge them to do more to stop the resurgent virus. It comes as EU countries have reported their highest ever dailyContinue reading “Angela Merkel Warns Germany Is On The Brink Of Coronavirus Disaster”
Boris Johnson’s Political Fear Is Beginning To Show
Fear is information, and Boris Johnson’s ill-judged address to his virtual party conference last week, in which he decided to not focus on the virus but on the bold future that lay on the other side of the crisis, told us something – it told us that the British Prime Minister is terrified. The charitableContinue reading “Boris Johnson’s Political Fear Is Beginning To Show”