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More than 310,000 people are today calling on the government to close schools across the UK amid coronavirus fears. The petition, started by Sami Attout, urges Boris Johnson to shut down schools and colleges ‘in the coming weeks of as soon as possible’, to prevent the spread of Covid19. As the virus is declared a public … Read more
Rishi Sunak’s first Budget confirmed what we had suspected. Boris Johnson’s Tories are not the party of Margaret Thatcher, or even David Cameron. That is why it is no exaggeration to describe yesterday as historic. The spectacle of this passionate, articulate, confident young Chancellor of Indian descent showed on one level how much the old … Read more
Halfway up the stairs of a remote Exmoor cottage is a cupboard where a young Boris Johnson liked to hide himself away from the world. The pictures he drew on the walls of the snug at Nethercote Cottage are there to this day — a poignant reminder of the happy times he spent at his … Read more
We are used to thinking of the Tories as the party of small government, of lower and less complicated taxes. But this, the first Budget of Boris Johnson’s administration, tells a very different story. And for all the panache of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s performance yesterday, there are some big numbers on both sides of the … Read more
PROFESSOR MATTHEW GOODWIN: Rishi Sunak’s bulldozer budget for Boris Johnson’s ‘red wall’ By Matthew Goodwin For The Daily Mail Published: 22:29 GMT, 11 March 2020 | Updated: 22:31 GMT, 11 March 2020 This is essentially a budget for blue-collar Britain – for the left-behind communities and left-out workers who, at the recent election, gave Conservatives … Read more
When Rishi Sunak rose to his feet in the Commons yesterday to deliver his first Budget speech, Boris Johnson had every reason to feel nervous. Less than a month had passed since Sajid Javid quit as Chancellor in a spat with the Prime Minister over special advisers. Few voters had ever heard of Sunak when … Read more
Rishi Sunak today unveiled a massive £30billion bonanza to stop coronavirus plunging Britain into Italy-style chaos – as he effectively reversed a decade of austerity. Delivering his crucial first Budget, the Chancellor admitted that people were ‘worried’ and the killer disease will inevitably have a major impact on the economy. But he insisted the government … Read more
Health minister Nadine Dorries’ coronavirus diagnosis caused chaos in Parliament today as the race began to trace anyone that came into close contact with her over the two weeks in which she may have been carrying the infection but showed no symptoms. The 62-year-old Tory MP, who began feeling ill on Friday, is now in self-isolation for the … Read more
His critics wrote him off as a youthful baby chino (chancellor in name only) when he took over the Treasury in January. But Rishi Sunak, 39, won praise from the man he replaced today for delivering the Budget after just weeks in the top job. Sajid Javid praised his successor after this afternoon’s fiscal showcase, … Read more
Boris Johnson summons tech giants Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft to Downing Street coronavirus meeting to discuss fight against fake news about the pandemic Senior figures from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook in No 10 They will be joined by Mr Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and NHS … Read more