Tories and Labour

Sir Keir Starmer said NHS staff and care workers were “underpaid and undervalued” and there would have to be a “reckoning” after the coronavirus crisis to reorder the UK’s economic priorities. The Labour leader said that a decade of austerity had left public services ill-equipped to deal with the pandemic during a ‘call…

Social distancing has made the British House of Commons feel a bit more like Dáil Éireann - a sparsely populated, echoing, business-like chamber in which the members are spread far and wide. This has drained it of the special atmosphere that normally makes Prime Minister's Questions a box office event…

Keir Starmer wants to be the man who can do both... The Labour leader's priority to date has been to be seen as a man willing to bring the country together at a time of national crisis. That was certainly the tone he struck with his opening remarks: congratulating Boris…

Politicians succeed by simplifying complexity. The world, Dominic Cummings declared in an online opus in 2013, is increasingly transitioning from small and primitive societies to ones that are too complex for leaders to control. But politicians don’t sell you that story. They succeed by offering a narrative that is easy…

Nick Thomas-Symonds is most at home in Labour's past. On his weekly commute to Westminster from Abersychan, a stilled cradle of heavy industry in the South Wales coalfield, the shadow home secretary drives past the childhood home of Roy Jenkins. No Welshman since Jenkins has run the Home Office in…

Bob Ferguson (Correspondence, 24 April) raises an important issue, which is that decisions over resuscitation status and how aggressively to pursue active versus palliative treatment should always be made on an individual rather than a blanket basis, and should involve discussion with each patient. There is, however, no contradiction between this…

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View photosThe Prime Minister is returning to work on Monday after recovering from coronavirus. (PA)Six multi-millionaires who bankrolled the Conservative party’s election victory last December have called for Boris Johnson to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.The group of donors are seeking to put pressure on the Prime Minister as he returns…

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Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:16 BST, 20 April 2020 | Updated: 01:16 BST, 20 April 2020 Truscott (pictured) resigned from the Labour Party after he was secretly taped offering to assist in getting amendments on legislation before the Upper…