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Rishi Sunak: Cancelling November budget shows economic uncertainty, writes ALEX BRUMMER 

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The Chancellor’s emergency decision to cancel the November budget and instead unveil a new winter plan today to preserve jobs and support enterprise is an indication of the grave economic uncertainty this country now faces. Uncertainty made far worse by the Government’s latest measures to contain the pandemic. Rishi Sunak’s surprise autumn package, which comes … Read more

JAN MOIR’s view from the sofa as The Great British Bake-Off returns at last 

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The Great British Bake Off  Rating: With a transmission time pushed back 15 minutes because of the Prime Minister’s Covid address to the nation, the Great British Bake Off cooked up some piping hot revenge. Judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood, alongside new host Matt Lucas, began the 11th series with a spoof health warning … Read more

Hospitality boss warns that revellers will spill out from ‘safe’ bars and restaurants

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Richard Caring, owner of Ivy restaurant chain and Annabel’s The Government’s naive and ignorant decision to shut down pubs and restaurants after 10pm is going to create havoc in an industry which is already on its knees. Far from helping to control the coronavirus, it could drive infection rates upwards. And it will cost countless … Read more

Hospitality boss warns that revellers will spill out from ‘safe’ bars and restaurants

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Richard Caring, owner of Ivy restaurant chain and Annabel’s The Government’s naive and ignorant decision to shut down pubs and restaurants after 10pm is going to create havoc in an industry which is already on its knees. Far from helping to control the coronavirus, it could drive infection rates upwards. And it will cost countless … Read more

Nothing says ‘UK open for business’ like commandos on the streets

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 This was not Lockdown II: The Sequel. In some ways it was worse. The measures announced all felt so wretchedly authoritarian, like a call to arms for petty officialdom. So un-Boris. Yet here he was, sounding as bossy as a bed and breakfast-owning old biddy in Birkenstocks. No one took any cheer from Boris Johnson’s … Read more

Nothing says ‘UK open for business’ like commandos on the streets

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 This was not Lockdown II: The Sequel. In some ways it was worse. The measures announced all felt so wretchedly authoritarian, like a call to arms for petty officialdom. So un-Boris. Yet here he was, sounding as bossy as a bed and breakfast-owning old biddy in Birkenstocks. No one took any cheer from Boris Johnson’s … Read more

BEN SPENCER analyses the dire warnings from Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty 

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Boris Johnson will unveil a major crackdown on normal life today in a bid to halt a second wave of coronavirus. He will drop his ‘back to work’ drive, announce restrictions on socialising and impose a 10pm curfew on bars and restaurants from Thursday. Pubs and other venues will be allowed to serve seated customers … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: Six things you didn’t know about the Garrick 

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CRAIG BROWN: Why this club abhors the cappuccino! Six things you didn’t know about the Garrick By Craig Brown for the Daily Mail Published: 01:55 BST, 22 September 2020 | Updated: 01:57 BST, 22 September 2020 1) The entrepreneur Emily Bendell, founder of the lingerie firm Bluebella, has launched a legal challenge to London’s Garrick … Read more

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: After The Two Ronnies of Doom, here’s the speech Boris Johnson SHOULD give today

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Boris Johnson is today expected to announce further restrictions on our freedom aimed at preventing an upsurge in coronavirus. Like Al Pacino, as Michael Corleone in Godfather III, just when we thought we were out, they pull us back in. The new rules could include forcing pubs to close either early or altogether, rescinding efforts … Read more