Supreme Court could be renamed and the number of judges cut under plans being considered by ministers amid fears US-style legal rows may become routine in the UK Ministers said to be considering name change to avoid confusion over court role The Supreme Court sparked anger among Conservatives after ruling that Boris Johnson illegally prorogued Parliament … Read more
No one could pretend that the events in Downing Street over the past few days have presented an edifying spectacle. They have laid bare the strains and stresses that have bedevilled the heart of government, and have undoubtedly contributed to the missteps that have characterised its recent performance. It is difficult to imagine similar scenes … Read more
Boris Johnson was urged to make a fully functioning test and trace system his Government‘s ‘number one overwhelming priority’ in the summer in an extra-ordinary intervention by his predecessors in Number 10. Former chancellor George Osborne has revealed that Conservatives David Cameron and Sir John Major and the Labour former prime ministers Gordon Brown and … Read more
A week ago, we said there was a whiff of Tony Blair about the Government’s case for a second lockdown. It felt rather too much like the launch of the 2003 dodgy dossier on Iraq‘s weapons of mass destruction, which was used to stampede the nation into the Iraq War, to the eventual regret of … Read more
This national lockdown should be our last. There is an urgent responsibility to spend the next month putting in place the tools that will allow us to live alongside this virus safely and freely through the winter. As I have discovered talking to experts around the world, Covid-19 will be with us for some years. … Read more
Blair’s four-point Covid plan: Ex-PM calls for experimental drugs to be deployed more widely, speeded up vaccines and faster testing Tony Blair today published a four-point plan to tackle the UK’s coronavirus crisis He said experimental drugs should be offered to all seriously ill Covid patients Also called for swift roll out of rapid tests … Read more
We are solemnly informed that a new and near-total lockdown is to begin on Wednesday night, and that it is wholly necessary to save us from thousands of avoidable deaths, and from the sight of coffins piled up in skating rinks. We are told, once again, that the NHS will be overwhelmed if we do … Read more
Tony Blair plotted to have Jeremy Corbyn thrown out of Labour in 2004, former minister Phil Woolas reveals Plan involved subjecting Mr Corbyn and troublesome others to ‘show trials’ This would force loyalty to be pledged or be barred from standing next election But the ex Oldham East and Saddleworth MP said plans were quickly … Read more
Tony Blair‘s former constituency house where the Labour Prime Minister entertained George Bush has gone up for sale for less than £300,000. During his time at Myrobella House in Trimdon Colliery, County Durham, with his family, where average house prices are just £40,000, the former PM and Sedgefield MP hosted international statesman and world leaders. … Read more
Hard Left union bruiser Len McCluskey was at the centre of a new Labour anti-Semitism row today after telling Tony Blair‘s former spin chief Peter Mandelson to go away and ‘count his gold’. The Unite kingpin took to Twitter last night to hastily apologise after aiming the barb at Mr Mandelson, whose father was Jewish, … Read more