RUTH SUNDERLAND: Virus or no virus, the Conservatives need to deliver on their promise to bring back prosperity to the regions By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 24 May 2020 | Updated: 22:24 BST, 24 May 2020 Remember the Red Wall? Rather like Brexit, the seismic shift in UK politics – … Read more
Ever since Chancellor Rishi Sunak turned on the spending taps to save Britain’s businesses amid the lockdown, there have been grumblings in the Tory Party about the gigantic bill that will need paying after the crisis. One can therefore only imagine how they’ll react on discovering that the party’s own coffers could also soon run … Read more
Top Tories have joined calls to ban Dominic Cummings from coronavirus scientific briefings. The former Brexit secretary David Davis is among those pushing for Cummings and Ben Warner, an adviser who ran the Tories’ private election computer model, to be prevented from attending future meetings of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage). Davis said that … Read more
Top Tories have joined calls to ban Dominic Cummings from coronavirus scientific briefings. The former Brexit secretary David Davis is among those pushing for Cummings and Ben Warner, an adviser who ran the Tories’ private election computer model, to be prevented from attending future meetings of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage). Davis said that … Read more
Furious Tory MPs have demanded the government ‘bite the bullet’ and set out its strategy for easing the coronavirus lockdown as Boris Johnson targets a return to Number 10 on Monday next week. Senior Conservative MPs fear the government currently has ‘no leadership’ as they urge ministers to give businesses hope that restrictions could soon … Read more
Ministers are underestimating the public by refusing to discuss exit strategies for ending the coronavirus lockdown, senior Tory MPs have warned. The Government has set out what needs to happen before it will consider lifting the measures, but there has been no detail on how the easing of restrictions will take place. Tory backbenchers and … Read more