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

HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary at the Downing Street press conference 

Blimey, Del Boy Hancock has struck it lucky again. He’s scored a whole bunch of testing kits off some outfit called Surescreen. A sun lotion firm? Don’t be a plonker, Rodders. Nah, they’re a top-class healthcare firm in Derby. Cushty. And the Health Sec had only gone and scored 20million of the things. Lovely jubbly! … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary at the Downing Street press conference 

Blimey, Del Boy Hancock has struck it lucky again. He’s scored a whole bunch of testing kits off some outfit called Surescreen. A sun lotion firm? Don’t be a plonker, Rodders. Nah, they’re a top-class healthcare firm in Derby. Cushty. And the Health Sec had only gone and scored 20million of the things. Lovely jubbly! … Read more

Council punch-up star tells HENRY DEEDES how she won a very parochial Game Of Thrones

There was shouting, lewd language and more boisterous behaviour than a rugby club on a Saturday night: a scene of such squabbling it was like the Bash Street Kids rather than a meeting of upstanding members of a local community. We may think of parish councillors as benign folk concerned with little more than the … Read more

Council punch-up star tells HENRY DEEDES how she won a very parochial Game Of Thrones

There was shouting, lewd language and more boisterous behaviour than a rugby club on a Saturday night: a scene of such squabbling it was like the Bash Street Kids rather than a meeting of upstanding members of a local community. We may think of parish councillors as benign folk concerned with little more than the … Read more

Council punch-up star tells HENRY DEEDES how she won a very parochial Game Of Thrones

There was shouting, lewd language and more boisterous behaviour than a rugby club on a Saturday night: a scene of such squabbling it was like the Bash Street Kids rather than a meeting of upstanding members of a local community. We may think of parish councillors as benign folk concerned with little more than the … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches Keir Starmer’s fiery clash with Boris Johnson at PMQs

We’ve had to wait a while but Sir Keir Starmer’s lid finally blew yesterday. Out of nowhere, that neatly oiled head of his simply exploded like a shaken-up can of Vimto. For months we have grown accustomed to the Labour leader occupying a saintly plinth inside the chamber, a beacon of trustworthiness, a model of … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches Keir Starmer’s fiery clash with Boris Johnson at PMQs

We’ve had to wait a while but Sir Keir Starmer’s lid finally blew yesterday. Out of nowhere, that neatly oiled head of his simply exploded like a shaken-up can of Vimto. For months we have grown accustomed to the Labour leader occupying a saintly plinth inside the chamber, a beacon of trustworthiness, a model of … Read more

HENRY DEEDES: Foam-flecked hyenas now bask in Matt Hancock’s glow. How he beamed!

Should Matthew Hancock’s proclamations get any more self-regarding they may need to carry a Government disclaimer. Pretty soon signs will have to flash up on the screens around the Commons. ‘Warning: Shameless self-promotion alert’, or: ‘The following statement may contain lengthy tracts of unbearable smugness.’ The reason for Mr Hancock’s bushy-tailed chirpiness of late is … Read more

Boris Johnson was like a dinner lady doling out a soggy rice pud: HENRY DEEDES

Boris Johnson was like a dinner lady doling out a soggy rice pud: HENRY DEEDES watches the Prime Minister’s visit to Scotland By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:42 GMT, 28 January 2021 | Updated: 02:29 GMT, 29 January 2021 Details of Boris Johnson’s trip to Scotland yesterday were available on what gimlet-eyed … Read more