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The Cummings clearout: No10 ‘will hand back control of special advisers to ministers’ as maverick aide’s legacy is dramatically torched Special advisers had to report directly to Dominic Cummings under old regime But new regime led by acting chief of staff Edward Lister is tearing up old rules Means special advisers will once again report … Read more
Donald Trump was talked out of launching a missile strike on Iran’s main nuclear site by his top advisers last week who warned it could trigger a war President Trump asked senior advisers about taking action against Iran’s main nuclear site at a meeting last Thursday, the New York Times reported Monday Four current and … Read more
Joe Biden’s scientific advisers will meet with COVID-19 vaccine makers in the coming days despite the presidential transition remaining stalled because of Donald Trump’s refusal to acknowledge that he lost the election. ‘We´re going to start those consultations this week,’ said Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, citing Pfizer, which said Monday its experimental vaccine … Read more
Downing Street is today locked in a bitter and very public civil war over the direction of the Government after Whitehall was rocked by the resignation of Boris Johnson’s director of communications Lee Cain. Mr Cain last night announced he will leave Number 10 at the end of the year after a standoff over whether … Read more
Downing Street is today locked in a bitter and very public civil war over the direction of the Government after Whitehall was rocked by the resignation of Boris Johnson’s director of communications Lee Cain. Mr Cain last night announced he will leave Number 10 at the end of the year after a standoff over whether … Read more
SAGE advisers’ estimates of how many people are catching Covid-19 each day actually went down at the end of October, despite Boris Johnson forcing the nation into another lockdown amid fears the virus was out of control. In a slide shown in the Prime Minister’s gloomy TV briefing, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance pointed … Read more
The Government’s SAGE advisers released papers yesterday evening that showed how they warned ministers two weeks ago that Britain could be headed for a more serious situation than their ‘worst case scenario’. The document, dated October 14, which was released online, said ‘we are breaching the number of infections and hospital admissions in the Reasonable … Read more
No10 hits the panic button over Scots independence surge: Leaked memo by Tory advisers warns PM can’t keep saying No to Sturgeon’s referendum demands urging ministers to ‘placate’ her with MORE powers By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 14:47 BST, 20 October 2020 | Updated: 14:49 BST, 20 October 2020 Tory fears over … Read more
Tory MP Steve Baker compares Boris Johnson to King Theoden from The Lord of the Rings and says the PM is ‘under the spell’ of his advisers like Dominic Cummings and must be ‘woken up’ Steve Baker compared Boris Johnson to King Theoden from Lord of the Rings Former Brexit minister Mr Baker claimed PM … Read more
Driving into work at 7.30 on Monday morning along the M4, I was delighted to find myself stuck in a traffic jam. After the preternaturally quiet motorways and half-empty rail carriages of recent months, gridlock felt like welcome normality. Nobody loves commuting, but for a brief moment it seemed the rush hour and the bustling, … Read more