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
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 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 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
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
Coronavirus will not be eliminated and Britons must learn to live with it, Tony Blair warned today as he urged the Government to focus on containment measures to see the country through a second wave. The former prime minister said infrastructure to stop the spread of the virus was critical as another national lockdown would … Read more
The release of the long-awaited Russia report this week revealed the grip the country has on the UK, from PR firms, charities, political interests, academia and cultural institutions. The Intelligence and Security Committee of MPs warned that ‘Russian influence in the UK is the new normal’, claiming that oligarchs and their money were welcomed into British … Read more
High profile British feminists have rallied behind Amber Heard amid her ex-husband Johnny Depp‘s bombshell libel trial. Cherie Blair, the barrister and wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, is understood to have spoken with the actress’ legal team last week, as Depp’s High Court trial entered its second week. The pair met last year … Read more
A leading figure in a Chinese group allegedly created to groom foreign elites has been pictured with five British prime ministers. Photographs uncovered by the Daily Mail show how Zhirong Hu has moved among the British Establishment. He has met Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Mr Hu is a … Read more
Cherie Blair says husband Tony has got into the habit of thinking whatever he does is ‘more important’ than helping out with domestic chores. At the weekend the former prime minister and Labour leader revealed he hasn’t done housework, laundry or cooked a family meal since 1997. Tony, 67, claims it was ‘impossible’ to return … Read more