The message that appeared in the Minister’s constituency in-box was typical. ‘I didn’t vote for you or Boris for this to happen.’ It was a response to the images filmed by Nigel Farage off the coast of Dover that have finally pushed Covid from the top of the public’s – if not the media and politicians’ … Read more
When the coronavirus crisis began, Boris Johnson and his Ministers wanted to follow the science. But thanks to the paranoia and false pride of the Chinese government, there was precious little science to follow. ‘We found it very difficult to get any hard information out of China at the beginning,’ a Minister told me. ‘When … Read more
It was when I bought a gun that I knew Corona Madness had finally claimed me. I’d been speaking to a Government official who presented an increasingly apocalyptic vision of how the Covid-19 crisis could spiral out of control. Panic-buying was just the start, they feared. Soon there would be looting, the police would be … Read more