Tories and Labour

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…

When we used to care about such things, a lot of people voted for the Greens or the Labour Party or the Social Democrats, in the hope that they might bring a "progressive" twist to the next government. Certainly anyone of my acquaintance who voted for any such party had…

Sean Hannity, one of Fox News's biggest stars, said that the coronavirus was a "new hoax" in March. | Fox News Earlier this month, Fox News aired a one-hour special, ‘America Together’, that featured some of its biggest stars. In a radical departure for the fiercely partisan network, the show…

Why does Keir Starmer keep banging on about an exit strategy? The Labour leader’s first demand of the government, after he formed his own shadow cabinet Covid-19 committee was that it publish a plan for how to exit the lockdown. Now he’s written a letter to locum prime minister Dominic…

On Easter Sunday, Boris Johnson was discharged from the hospital, relieving a corrosive anxiety that Britain might lose its prime minister to coronavirus. Ten days after testing positive for the virus, Johnson was driven from Downing Street, across the River Thames, to St. Thomas’ hospital, where he spent three nights…

The Labour Party has been thrown into uproar by a leaked report, prepared by party officials in the final days of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, which makes a series of headline-grabbing claims. Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, the party’s new leader and deputy, have announced an independent inquiry into both the…