Get Britain moving again: Businesses and political leaders call for a clear exit from lockdown

A grand coalition of the country’s most senior political and business figures today calls on the Government to lift the shutters from Britain’s deserted high streets and map a route out of the crippling Covid-19 lockdown. Former Cabinet Ministers David Davis and Iain Duncan Smith have joined forces with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and … Read more

Climate risks put at top of Davos agenda – but business leaders still fly in

Climate risks put at top of Davos agenda… as the global elite fly in on their private jets! By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:07 BST, 15 January 2020 | Updated: 22:07 BST, 15 January 2020 The World Economic Forum has urged business leaders to step into the void left by governments in … Read more

Brazil’s health minister says government should turn to gang leaders to fight COVID-19 in favelas

Brazil’s health minister says the government should turn to gang and militia leaders in dangerous and overcrowded favelas to develop a coronavirus strategy Brazil Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said the government should engage favela gang and militia leaders to combat the coronavirus The overcrowded slums are home to about 11 million people or 2% … Read more

One of former Qatari leader’s three wives named by industry insiders as new owner of Ritz Hotel

One of former Qatari leader’s three wives named by industry insiders as new owner of Ritz Hotel By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 23:08 BST, 4 April 2020 One of the former Qatari leader’s three wives has been named by industry insiders as the new owner … Read more

Boris Johnson writes to all leaders of opposition parties to invite them to Number 10

Boris Johnson has written to all opposition leaders to invite them to Number 10 next week to work together to battle coronavirus.    The announcement comes as it was revealed that the Queen will issue a rallying cry to the nation on Sunday in a rare address to the nation to boost morale.  Mr Johnson wrote: … Read more

Boris Johnson writes to all leaders of opposition parties to invite them to Number 10

Boris Johnson has written to all opposition leaders to invite them to Number 10 next week to work together to battle coronavirus.    The announcement comes as it was revealed that the Queen will issue a rallying cry to the nation on Sunday in a rare address to the nation to boost morale. In her first … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: Our paper tiger leaders will be back dealing with China when this is over

Mao Zedong, invented a term for ‘reactionaries’ in the West who made threats against his regime. He called them ‘paper tigers’ — the ancient Chinese word is zhilaohu. What Mao (whose vast portrait still looms over Beijing’s Tiananmen Square) meant was that we, to use an equally colourful English expression, were all mouth and no … Read more

Police blast MP Stephen Kinnock for going to his father Neil’s to celebrate ex-Labour leader’s 78th

‘This was NOT essential travel’: Police blast MP Stephen Kinnock for going to his father Neil’s house to celebrate the ex-Labour leader’s 78th birthday Labour MP Stephen Kinnock disciplined by South Wales police on Twitter  MP for Aberavon unwittingly revealed he had flouted lockdown guidelines He had travelled to visit his father Neil Kinnock at … Read more

For days we’ve seen leaders coming closer than 6ft – so why didn’t they practise what they preached?

Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock faced accusations they had failed to follow their own advice on social distancing after both tested positive for coronavirus. The Prime Minister and Health Secretary were pictured at close quarters in the Commons in recent days – well within the advised 6ft limit. Just hours after they confirmed they had … Read more

G7 leaders vow to unite and to combat coronavirus outbreak

G7 leaders vow to unite and use ‘full powers of our governments’ to combat coronavirus outbreak By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:06 GMT, 16 March 2020 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 16 March 2020 The leaders of the G7 group of leading industrialised nations yesterday vowed to use the ‘full powers of our … Read more