Britons who test negative for Covid should wear paper wristbands to show they don’t have the virus, Number 10’s nudge unit says Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) was sent to watch mass testing in Slovakia Paper wristbands could be used to allow Covid-free people to get back to normal They added incentives for getting swabs needed … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing a Downing Street meltdown amid claims fiancee Carrie Symonds is fighting plans to make a former Vote Leave aide his chief of staff. Lee Cain, currently Downing Street‘s director of communications, is said to be in ‘advanced discussions’ about the new post. But leaks about the talks happening have sparked a backlash from … Read more
No10 head of Press and former Vote Leave official is in talks to be Boris Johnson’s chief of staff Lee Cain is said to be in ‘advanced discussions’ about the potential new post Promotion would be big rise for former Daily Mirror election chicken journalist Chief of staff will operate as the Prime Minister’s ‘fixer’ … Read more
Britain’s statistics watchdog today criticised Number 10 for not being transparent enough with the data it used to justify England’s second lockdown. The UK Statistics Authority — which has slammed ministers before for overblown claims about their testing capacity — argued that numbers presented to the public have not always been backed up by ‘transparent … Read more
Boris Johnson‘s humiliating treatment of the Tory grandee who led his campaign to replace Theresa May as Prime Minister is laid bare in shocking claims in a new book. The Prime Minister apparently had such contempt for former Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith that he would do anything to avoid him – including … Read more
Confusion reigned over Britain’s self-isolation rules today after Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon suggested England and Scotland could end up with different quarantine rules. Downing Street this afternoon confirmed it is investigating whether the current rules that force those who come into contact with a coronavirus carrier to quarantine for 14 days could be relaxed. … Read more
Malcolm Tucker, No 10’s brutal chief adviser in the TV satire The Thick Of It, would no doubt have a colourful word to describe the way the Government has handled the Marcus Rashford/free school meals debacle. But this is a family newspaper, so let’s just call it a complete and utter disaster. An embarrassing own … Read more
Christmas chaos as No10 says families CAN gather this year but minister warns it won’t be ‘normal’ – and Labour claims the only way of saving the festive season is a ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown NOW Downing Street insisted the PM wants families to be able to gather at Christmas Treasury minister warned that the festive … Read more
Front-woman or fall guy? Ex-TV presenter Allegra Stratton will front No10’s new White House-style press conferences Downing Street said to have appointed Allegra Stratton as its new TV spokesman Ex-journalist Ms Stratton will host White House-style daily TV press briefings Ms Stratton joined the Government in April this year to work for Rishi Sunak By Jack … Read more
Downing Street was panicked into a full national lockdown after its scientific advisers Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance were given doomsday mortality projections by Imperial College’s Neil Ferguson, an explosive new biography of Boris Johnson by investigative author Tom Bower reveals. Bower tells how a critical meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) … Read more