Tory MPs’ fury at coronavirus lockdown limbo

Furious Tory MPs have warned the government it must spell out in detail how it intends to ease the UK’s coronavirus lockdown to give businesses hope of survival.  Senior backbenchers on the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs met yesterday to discuss the government’s response to the current crisis.  They are believed to have said it … Read more

Tory MPs’ fury at coronavirus lockdown limbo

Furious Tory MPs have warned the government it must spell out in detail how it intends to ease the UK’s coronavirus lockdown to give businesses hope of survival.  Senior backbenchers on the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs met yesterday to discuss the government’s response to the current crisis.  They are believed to have said it … Read more

Tory health minister Helen Whately sniggers as Piers Morgan asks about 4,000 care home deaths

Care minister Helen Whately was blasted today for sniggering in a car crash TV interview as it was revealed a ‘hidden epidemic’ of coronavirus in nursing and old-people’s homes may have cost 4,000 lives. She was taken to task by Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain as he grilled her over an exclusive report in the Daily … Read more

Beijing is exploiting the disarray caused by the coronavirus epidemic, claims leading Tory MP

Beijing is exploiting the disarray caused by the Covid-19 epidemic to try to move a security-sensitive British technology company to China, a leading Tory MP said last night.  Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the powerful Foreign Affairs Committee, said China was ‘using the cover’ of Boris Johnson’s illness to ‘launch a raid’ on Imagination Technologies, which … Read more

RMT chief assistant says he hopes whole Tory party gets coronavirus

A Labour mayor who was expelled from the party after saying Boris Johnson ‘completely deserves’ his intensive care battle with coronavirus has now lost her job. Councillor Sheila Oakes, who is currently mayor of Heanor in Derbyshire, was sacked from her job as a paralegal at VHS Fletchers in Nottingham on Wednesday after going through … Read more

RMT chief assistant says he hopes whole Tory party gets coronavirus

A Labour mayor who was expelled from the party after saying Boris Johnson ‘completely deserves’ his intensive care battle with coronavirus has now lost her job. Councillor Sheila Oakes, who is currently mayor of Heanor in Derbyshire, was sacked from her job as a paralegal at VHS Fletchers in Nottingham on Wednesday after going through … Read more

Boris Johnson brings in Tory election chief Isaac Levido

Boris Johnson brings in Tory election chief Isaac Levido to co-ordinate coronavirus battle after his chief adviser Dominic Cummings falls sick Levido ran Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign and helped Tories win GE The Prime Minister, Health Secretary and Chief Medical Officer are all sick  Downing Street declined to say whether Dominic Cummings is well enough … Read more

Boris Johnson brings in Tory election chief Isaac Levido

Boris Johnson brings in Tory election chief Isaac Levido to co-ordinate coronavirus battle after his chief adviser Dominic Cummings falls sick Levido ran Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign and helped Tories win GE The Prime Minister, Health Secretary and Chief Medical Officer are all sick  Downing Street declined to say whether Dominic Cummings is well enough … Read more

Tory aide and social media guru are masterminding the government’s NHS messaging

The man who mapped out the Conservative Party’s recent thumping election victory has been brought in to encourage Britons to stay indoors as many continue to flout the rules.  He is little known outside Westminster, but 36-year-old Australian Isaac Levido has been central to the government’s communications strategy and its central slogan: Stay at Home, Protect … Read more

Tory aide and social media guru are masterminding the government’s NHS messaging

The man who mapped out the Conservative Party’s recent thumping election victory has been brought in to encourage Britons to stay indoors as many continue to flout the rules.  He is little known outside Westminster, but 36-year-old Australian Isaac Levido has been central to the government’s communications strategy and its central slogan: Stay at Home, Protect … Read more