Tories and Labour

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…

On 25 March, Britain's parliament was suspended over concerns that close proximity might result in MPs contracting COVID-19 and go on to spread the respiratory disease among their constituencies.Cross-party demands gained momentum on Saturday for an urgent “virtual” recall of the UK parliament amid the escalating situation with the coronavirus…

A significant majority of voters want Boris Johnson to extend trade talks with the EU, which have been interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey. Some 47 per cent of those questioned by BMG for The Independent said the prime minister should ditch his 31 December deadline…

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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- It seems a bleak time to make the observation that Britain is in good hands. There’s a lot to worry about: the still rising death toll from Covid-19; the strain on the National Health Service; the shortages of personal protective equipment; and the pressure on economic well-being and mental…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- It seems a bleak time to make the observation that Britain is in good hands. There’s a lot to worry about: the still rising death toll from Covid-19; the strain on the National Health Service; the shortages of personal protective equipment; and the pressure on economic well-being and mental…