Rishi Sunak defends Eat Out to Help Out scheme as ‘micro policy’ December 11, 2023 Rishi Sunak has defended his Eat Out to Help Out scheme to the Covid-19 inquiry as a “micro-policy” and said he was not warned about the risks.
Covid inquiry: Sunak denies describing ‘clash’ between economy and public health December 11, 2023 Rishi Sunak denied describing a “clash” between the economy and public health during the Covid-19 pandemic, the official UK inquiry has heard.
Covid-19 Inquiry: Five things we learned during Boris Johnson’s evidence December 7, 2023 Boris Johnson was sworn into the UK Covid-19 inquiry to give evidence on his handling of the pandemic. Here's five things we learned.
COP28: Net zero may need City to mobilise ‘trillions of pounds’, Rishi Sunak says December 1, 2023 Transitioning to net zero won’t happen “without mobilising hundreds of billions, if not trillions of pounds” of public and private investment, Rishi Sunak said on route to COP28.
Dominic Cummings created ‘culture of fear’ in No10, Matt Hancock tells Covid inquiry November 30, 2023 Matt Hancock has accused Dominic Cummings of creating a “culture of fear” in government that undermined the pandemic response, as he defended his record at the Covid-19 inquiry.
Sadiq Khan: Mayor of London ‘alarmed’ at being ‘kept in dark’ over Covid, inquiry told November 27, 2023 Sadiq Khan was left “alarmed” after being “kept in the dark” over the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, the official UK inquiry has heard.
Brace yourselves, the era of the ‘alternative budget’ has arrived November 20, 2023 It started when Liz Truss’s faction of 60 or so MPs, who go under the banner Conservative Growth Coalition, pre-announced – to drum up anticipation – and then two months later published their Budget for Growth.
Boris Johnson was ‘bamboozled’ by Covid-19 data, Vallance tells inquiry November 20, 2023 Boris Johnson was “bamboozled” by the graphs and data presented to him by scientists during the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK’s official inquiry has been told.
Boris Johnson referred to Treasury as ‘pro-death squad’, Covid inquiry told November 6, 2023 Central decision-making in government for much of 2020 was 'a bit of a Punch and Judy'
Battle of the books: Nadine Dorries vs Boris Johnson November 6, 2023 Nadine Dorries and Boris Johnson both wrote novels, but whose writing is best? To save you the hassle of actually reading either of them, we’ve done the dirty work for you and ranked one of Dorries’s bestsellers and Johnson’s sole thriller side by side. Ruby Flynn – Nadine Dorries (2015) Ahead of the much anticipated [...]