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HENRY DEEDES: Boris Johnson and the Boffins were back — and the trio had some new material! By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 30 April 2020 The old band was back together. Boris And The Boffins finally reunited yesterday, their month-long absence from the … Read more
Rarely do tributes between political opponents extend beyond leaden platitudes. Before yesterday, the most sincere words of support I’ve heard between party leaders came after David Cameron’s son Ivan died aged six, prompting Gordon Brown to address the House. Watching the hitherto emotionally impregnable Brown, whose own daughter died as a baby, shattered with grief … Read more
He emerged hesitantly, tiptoeing gently down the steps of Downing Street like a winter swimmer wading into the icy foam. Gone was the rhinoceros charge we are used to seeing flying out of that famous black door, that head-first, shoulders-down barge, which he would throw himself into with the same boundless energy he uses to … Read more
Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding’s newly fostered pitbull accused of mauling unleashed small dog in park By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 16:01 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 16:01 BST, 23 April 2020 Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding’s newly fostered pitbull is accused of attacking and injuring an unleashed smaller dog in a Los … Read more
Henry Golding looks dapper as he takes his foster dog for a walk during quarantine break with wife Liv Lo By Kelby Vera and Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 20:31 BST, 21 April 2020 | Updated: 20:32 BST, 21 April 2020 Henry Golding cut a stylish figure while out walking his dog with wife Liv … Read more
Yesterday was Rishi Sunak’s turn to host the Downing Street press briefing. Ugh. What a way to start the week. Forgive the mope, but just seeing the Chancellor nowadays is enough to make you groan in despair, like running into a traffic warden or those men on the beach who pop up out of nowhere … Read more
Restock the drinks cabinet. Break out the emergency hair dye. Joe Wicks, if you’re listening, don’t let up on those burpees… yet. Fellow citizens, you ain’t going anywhere. It’s official, people. Three more weeks of lockdown. Yup, that’s nearly another month of this carry-on and still no end in sight. To be fair, Raab had … Read more
Humanity Hancock’s great care conversion: HENRY DEEDES watches as the Health Secretary vows to end nursing homes scandal Matt Hancock cut an anxious figure as he gave his press briefing on Wednesday There was a tweaked sense of humility and urgency about the Health Secretary He wanted it to be known he had paid attention … Read more
Yvonne Doyle, medical director of Public Health England, looked mildly blank when the thorny issue of care homes was raised at yesterday’s Downing Street press briefing. Someone had made the not unreasonable point that NHS Nightingale hospital was largely empty, so why couldn’t it be used to provide support for elderly patients from care homes? … Read more
Dominic Raab the grouch is gone… now he’s a far springier stand-in: HENRY DEEDES sees the caretaker boss raise his game at briefing By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:52 BST, 13 April 2020 | Updated: 22:58 BST, 13 April 2020 Dominic Raab’s mood, to use a phrase we hear rather a lot … Read more