ALEX BRUMMER: Resilient City can bounce back yet again despite being left to sink or swim in Brexit deal By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 23:24 GMT, 25 December 2020 | Updated: 21:21 GMT, 26 December 2020 Britain’s status as the world’s fifth-largest economy will remain intact next year in spite of the … Read more
Last month, having had a bad knee for ages, I finally got around to doing something about it. The damn thing had got so painful it was starting to keep me awake at night. My osteopath took one look at it, rolled his eyes and scolded me for leaving it so long, emptied half a … Read more
Visibly nervous and decidedly twitchy, the Prime Minister was pacing up and down in his Downing Street study when the mobile phone in his suit pocket started to vibrate. ‘It’s Frosty,’ he bellowed at the handful of officials gathered in his office. It was 2.15pm on Christmas Eve and the newly-ennobled David Frost, the UK’s … Read more
The best way to assess Boris’s trade deal with the EU is to look at who’s for it and who’s agin it. Despite the bad blood between the two of them, Nigel Farage has given the agreement a magnanimous, if cautious, welcome. While Farage is wisely reserving final judgment until he’s read the small print, … Read more
A health warning! Today the airwaves will be full of people pronouncing with total certainty, and often in outraged tones, on a possible trade deal text they have not yet had the chance to read. The mooted UK-EU trade deal is necessarily long – and that is a good thing. It is long because it … Read more
After several days of sheer misery caused by a worsening pandemic and the scenes of truck chaos at Dover, the financial markets and businesses nationwide may have something to celebrate. A reason, at last, to start putting the Champagne on ice. True to form, with a final deadline looming for a new UK-European Union trade … Read more
SIMON WALTERS: Keir Starmer may be key to slaying the Spartans in the ERG By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 00:09 GMT, 24 December 2020 | Updated: 00:10 GMT, 24 December 2020 The UK has been negotiating for a Brexit deal for four-and-a half years. Boris Johnson would have just days to get … Read more
Are we there? Have we finally made it? As I write, there are reports that we are inching towards a final deal with the European Union, and may have even got across the line. British negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier have been photographed disappearing into a locked room in Brussels, where … Read more
When Tony Blair starts lecturing the nation on how to manage the Covid mass vaccination programme, one might be forgiven for switching off. The former prime minister has no scientific background but does have a notable talent for jumping aboard bandwagons. But he is right to draw national attention to the issue of vaccine delivery. … Read more
Is this the worst Christmas ever? As most of the country enters Tier 4 from Boxing Day, l’m trying to look on the bright side, find light in the gloom, things to be cheerful about. After all, I’m not spending the next two days holed up in a smelly lorry cab parked on a disused … Read more