by Jason Tyler | 25th May 2020 | Brexit, General, Politics
Richard Holden is MP for North West Durham. After a century under a Labour County Council and almost as long with Labour MPs, my constituency of North West Durham epitomises what has been described as ‘left behind Britain’. At the end of the Second World War,...
by Jason Tyler | 25th May 2020 | Brexit, Politics
So, those who loathe Johnson will continue to loathe him. His supporters will exult, and continue to support him – and Cummings will stay in post. Nothing has changed, for the time being.In a sense, though, everything has changed. The headline we see on the...
by Jason Tyler | 24th May 2020 | Brexit, General, Politics
“I’m afraid it hasn’t been a success trying to save him” Conservative MP Steve Baker says the Prime Minister’s aide Dominic Cummings is “not indispensible”, saying “Dominic should just save us all this trouble, he should go, he should go today”https://t.co/TqE5ZdUf0F...
by Jason Tyler | 24th May 2020 | Brexit, General, Politics
Resignation precedes resurrection – or can do in political terms, at any rate. Priti Patel was forced to quit in the autumn of 2017. She was back in office within eighteen months, appointed to one the great offices of state – Home Secretary. Amber...
by Jason Tyler | 24th May 2020 | Brexit, Politics
And yet, while we are also informed that the government was intent on pursuing a “contain” and “delay” policy, “based on the flu model”, the reporters fail completely to explore the ramifications of this. Thus, while the explanation...
by Jason Tyler | 23rd May 2020 | Brexit, Politics
Readers will, no doubt, be comforted to learn from the Department of Health and Social Care that “life changes due to the Coronavirus outbreak may cause you to feel anxious and stressed”.I wonder if our gifted public servants have ever paused to think that...
