HENRY DEEDES: Dogged by doubt, doom-monger Sages have got Boris Johnson on the run

Boris Johnson opened up the shutters but it was just a crack, a chink, a cigarette paper-slim slit. May as well have kept them slammed shut for all the good it did. Four more months. Another four months of pettifogging rules and restrictions. Our emergence from this year of hell will not so much be … Read more

Boris hints massive furlough could be extended AGAIN to June

Boris Johnson gave a strong hint that the massive furlough scheme could be extended again today as he unveiled an ultra-cautious ‘roadmap’ for easing lockdown.  The PM insisted the government will ‘continue to do whatever it takes to protect jobs’ for the ‘duration of the pandemic’, despite already having spent more than £280billion on the … Read more

STEPHEN GLOVER: Why HAS Boris Johnson been bounced from boosterism to gloomsterism? 

Let’s stand back for a moment from this awful pandemic and consider what has been done to us.  No previous governments in peacetime, and very few in wartime, have curtailed personal freedoms to the extent that ours have been suppressed over the past 11 months. We can’t meet our nearest and dearest. We are obliged … Read more

STEPHEN GLOVER: Why HAS Boris Johnson been bounced from boosterism to gloomsterism? 

Let’s stand back for a moment from this awful pandemic and consider what has been done to us.  No previous governments in peacetime, and very few in wartime, have curtailed personal freedoms to the extent that ours have been suppressed over the past 11 months. We can’t meet our nearest and dearest. We are obliged … Read more

Covid UK: Boris Johnson admits more will die when lockdown lifted

Boris Johnson today said Britain must stomach the fact that more people will die when lockdown ends because vaccines are not perfect. The Prime Minister argued there was ‘no credible route’ to a zero Covid world in the long term and that a third wave would happen whenever restrictions are lifted. Laying out his ‘one-way’ … Read more

Covid UK: Boris Johnson admits more will die when lockdown lifted

Boris Johnson today said Britain must stomach the fact that more people will die when lockdown ends because vaccines are not perfect. The Prime Minister argued there was ‘no credible route’ to a zero Covid world in the long term and that a third wave would happen whenever restrictions are lifted. Laying out his ‘one-way’ … Read more

No foreign holidays before at least May 17, says Boris Johnson

Foreign travel for leisure and holidays will be banned until at least May 17, Boris Johnson revealed today, causing ‘dismay’ for travellers and the aviation industry who say it is ‘too late’ to restart flights. The Prime Minister’s diktat will cause more pain for holidaymakers as well as airlines and holiday companies who have lost … Read more

Boris Johnson’s lockdown exit strategy in full

Boris Johnson today unveiled his lockdown exit strategy which could see life in England return to something close to normal by June at the earliest.  The Prime Minister’s plan for easing restrictions will be split into four separate steps and will see the country treated as a whole, with no return to a tier system.  … Read more