Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Johnson? Just after 4pm on Wednesday, Boris’s carefully cultivated reputation as a Churchillian champion of British liberty crumbled like stale Stilton cheese. ‘We will boost the local enforcement capacity of local authorities by introducing Covid-secure marshals to help ensure social distancing in town and city centres, and … Read more
It is The Guardian – inevitably – that has been leading the sneers. ‘As millionaires inside and outside of government lean on us to stop working from home, what are we really missing?’ the bible of woke Britain intoned last week. ‘If you want to feel like you’re in an office again, just wad a packet … Read more
When is someone going to speak for London? The greatest city on the planet is being left to die a slow, silent death. Every day in the capital is like a Sunday now. The Square Mile lies largely abandoned. Whitehall is solely patrolled by armed police and a small handful of inquisitive tourists. Footfall on … Read more
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
The Minister was raging. ‘People keep saying the Government is all over the place. But it isn’t the Government, or even the Cabinet. We aren’t being told of plans or developments. We are all basically having to live through Boris’s midlife crisis.’ Many men experience a loss of confidence as middle age wraps them in … Read more
Andrew Twentyman makes the best pizza in Leigh in Greater Manchester. But he’s a working man who doesn’t like Jeremy Corbyn. And for that he had to be destroyed. ‘Can you imagine what state we’d be in if Jeremy Corbyn had been in charge of all this?’ the former Labour supporter told The Guardian newspaper … Read more
You’ve heard of Black Lives Matter. But you’ve probably never heard of Fans For Diversity. The grassroots football supporters campaign – a joint project run by the Football Supporters’ Association and the Kick It Out alliance – hasn’t had its name or slogan prominently displayed on the back of Premier League matchday shirts. There have … Read more
It’s The Untouchables strategy. ‘When he asked Rebecca Long Bailey to stand down, Keir wasn’t thinking about the Jenrick scandal,’ an ally of the Labour leader reveals. ‘But in hindsight the comparison is stark. It’s like that old Blair line: Keir is leading his party, Boris is following his. He couldn’t sack Cummings, and he … Read more
I have already had two people come up to me today and separately say “I think Boris may have to go”,’ one Tory MP told me last week. ‘There’s no way you would have been hearing that even last month.’ It’s just one sign that some Conservative politicians are starting to think the unthinkable. In … Read more
What will she tell her grandchildren in years to come? Holding up a placard saying ‘Cummings you are full of sh*t!’ as she joined a screaming mob haranguing the Prime Minister’s senior adviser outside his house, where he lives with his wife and four-year-old son. Perhaps she’ll proudly show video footage of the scenes. And … Read more