Alastair Campbell’s daughter says she felt a responsibility to cheer him up when he was depressed

Alastair Campbell’s comedian daughter Grace reveals she felt a responsibility to ‘cheer up’ her father when he was depressed – and says one breakdown left him ‘looking like he wanted to die’ Grace, 26, recalled one of her father Alastair Campbell’s lowest moments After he left Downing Street, the former Labour press secretary, had breakdown … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: The dangers of a Prime Minister making up international law as he goes are clear

A disdain for rules that still haunts Tony Blair: The dangers for Britain of a Prime Minister making up international law as he goes along are clear, writes SIMON WALTERS By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 23:24 BST, 8 September 2020 | Updated: 23:48 BST, 8 September 2020 The last Prime Minister to … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Delayed action plan ‘may have cost 40k lives’

One of Britain’s most experienced scientists who has advised four Prime Ministers on health strategy has slammed the Government for causing the covid-19 death toll to rise unnecessarily. Sir David King, who was chief scientific adviser from 2000 and worked with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May, says Boris Johnson has got … Read more

Delaying coronavirus action plan for a week may have cost 40,000 lives, claims top British scientist

One of Britain’s most experienced scientists who has advised four Prime Ministers on health strategy has slammed the Government for causing the covid-19 death toll to rise unnecessarily. Sir David King, who was chief scientific adviser from 2000 and worked with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May, says Boris Johnson has got … Read more

Tony Blair warns UK ‘running out of time’ to introduce mass testing

Tony Blair today warned the UK is ‘running out of time’ to roll out a mass coronavirus testing programme as he said a second wave of the disease would force ministers to choose between the economy and people’s lives.  The former prime minister has long advocated routine testing of the whole population – even people … Read more

Matt Hancock vows to introduce mass testing of the public

Matt Hancock today vowed to bring in population-wide mass coronavirus testing – but failed to offer a time frame and referred to the project as a ‘moonshot’. The Health Secretary told the BBC’s Today programme that the government would bring in mass testing and ministers were working as ‘fast as we can’ on the scheme … Read more

Matt Hancock vows to introduce mass testing of the public

Matt Hancock today vowed to bring in population-wide mass coronavirus testing – but failed to offer a time frame and referred to the project as a ‘moonshot’. The Health Secretary told the BBC’s Today programme that the government would bring in mass testing and ministers were working as ‘fast as we can’ on the scheme … Read more

Happy birthday Princess Royal! Elegant Anne stuns in three new portraits to mark turning 70

The Princess Royal’s 70th birthday has been marked with the release of three official photographs to celebrate the milestone. Princess Anne is known for her no-nonsense approach to life and tenacious attitude, but in the images she is pictured smiling and looking relaxed at her Gatcombe Park home in Gloucestershire before lockdown. Wearing a Maureen … Read more

DAN HODGES: For new working-class voters, getting schools back is now as vital as Brexit

Former JCB driver Billy Brown feels Boris has let him down. ‘I thought I was voting for someone with balls,’ he tells me caustically.  Billy voted Tory for the first time last December. But he thinks the Covid crisis has seen the Prime Minister lose his way. ‘Boris should have sacked that Cummings fella. Everyone … Read more