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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Another Johnson checks in – Boris’s financier half-brother, Max, has become a father after his glamorous wife gave birth to their first child – a daughter called Ayla By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 23:59 BST, 7 August 2020 | Updated: 00:04 BST, 8 August 2020 The Johnson clan continues to … Read more
The Roman Emperor Caligula reputedly planned to appoint his horse a Consul. As Prime Minister, Robert Salisbury made his nephew Arthur Balfour Chief Secretary of Ireland in 1887. Hence, some say, the phrase ‘Bob’s your uncle’. I wonder whether a phrase will enter the language as a result of Boris Johnson doling out a life … Read more
Banning junk food advertising was today branded a ‘slap in the face’ for Britain’s food and drink industry after its hard work to keep the nation fed during the coronavirus pandemic. Producers and advertising industry figures warned that jobs could be at risk as it as it was revealed Boris Johnson is considering taking drastic … Read more
Some 518,000 people would commute to the Square Mile on a normal day before the coronavirus devastated Britain’s economy – and potentially altered the nation’s working habits for good. The streets of the City of London are still deserted a week after Boris Johnson’s call for workers to return to their offices – with ten of … Read more
‘Hundreds of thousands of people’ from Hong Kong might come to the UK after the Government offered an escape route to around three million people in the city to live here, said a former British consulate worker who alleged he was tortured in China. Simon Cheng is the first person to have been granted political … Read more
Boris Johnson channeled the New Deal of US president Franklin Roosevelt today as he laid out his vision for Britain’s post-coronavirus recovery. But the scale of what was unveiled by the Prime Minister at a college in Dudley this morning appears to be on a far lower order of magnitude to that put in place … Read more
The rhetoric and ambition are typical Boris. To avoid the ‘thunderclap of economic consequences’ caused by the coronavirus, he says, we are going to ‘build our way back to health’. Austerity will go out of the window as billions are poured into projects all over Britain to ready the country for a post-Covid future, averting … Read more
Boris Johnson will this week reveal his ‘whack-a-mole’ strategy to ease the coronavirus lockdown and put the UK economy back into gear. The Prime Minister is expected to reveal his roadmap of proposals to very carefully and slowly lift the restriction in place since late March, but come down hard on any secondary hotspots that … Read more
Boris Johnson has mapped out a blueprint to loosen the lockdown which will reopen rubbish tips this weekend followed by garden centres within a fortnight, sources claimed last night. Council recycling centres could be allowed to take customers in a matter of days if the police give the green light they can cope with the … 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