HENRY DEEDES watches the Prime Minister’s lockdown statement in the Commons
Whenever the Prime Minister is about to hit us with sticky news he says ‘alas’ a lot. It’s his distress beacon, his warning siren that the Messerschmitts are swooping over the White Cliffs of Dover. During his statement today to the Commons, where MPs had returned to vote on Lockdown Three, he barely stopped uttering … Read more