Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Messier and messier: Boris Johnson’s biggest blunders of 2021
As rumour about the embattled PM’s future fizzes, we look back on Johnson’s second full year of office – 12 months beset with epic gaffes, U-turns, rebellions and clangers.
‘Borders on insulting’: Sunak’s Covid £1bn bailout falls short on furlough
Excluding furlough and being a long time coming, the Chancellor’s support package for the hospitality sector announcement brings adverse reaction.
‘At last, some good news’: UK left reacts to Gabriel Boric’s victory in Chile
In what has been hailed as a “victory for the left”, the young socialist’s win has enthused progressives around the world, including in the UK.
Over half of 2019 Tory voters think Boris Johnson is dishonest – poll
‘I no longer trust the Conservative party and have only ever voted for them.’
New Brexit minister said exiting EU would be an economic disaster
Liz Truss is a former Remainer who announced a series of dismal warnings about the consequences of Brexit during the 2016 referendum campaign.
Warning issued about using the NHS as a vaccination service every few months
The head of the Covid vaccination programme has issued caution about reorienting the NHS to vaccination every three to six months.