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
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
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
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
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
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 defied huge pressure from Tories and business today to unveil an ultra-cautious ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown. Announcing his long-awaited four-phase exit strategy, the PM warned the ‘threat remains’ and cases, hospitalisations and deaths will rise in the coming months as no vaccines can offer 100 per cent protection for the whole population. ‘At … Read more
Boris Johnson defied huge pressure from Tories and business today to unveil an ultra-cautious ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown. Announcing his long-awaited four-phase exit strategy, the PM warned the ‘threat remains’ and cases, hospitalisations and deaths will rise in the coming months as no vaccines can offer 100 per cent protection for the whole population. ‘At … Read more
Today, Boris Johnson will take the first step on a ‘cautious – but irreversible’ journey towards bringing the country out of lockdown as he sets out his roadmap for the next few months. Cautious because of what happened in December last year when a short period of loosening caused a huge spike in cases; irreversible … Read more
Dilyn appears to now be out of the dog house as Boris Johnson was seen taking him for a run today just days after calling for someone to ‘please shoot that f****** dog’ after he gnawed his way through antiques at Chequers. The PM – wearing a jumper, Adidas shorts and his favourite red beanie … Read more