Analysis: sense of foreboding will gnaw away at chancellor’s Treasury team as October spending review loomsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThere is good news for Rishi Sunak in the latest public borrowing figures. But there …
Nicola Jennings on Johnson and Raab’s Afghanistan platitudes — cartoon
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Unions urge Commons Speaker to take tougher line on unmasked MPs
Ministers and backbenchers criticised for unwillingness to take basic measures to help protect staffCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, is facing calls to urge MPs to wear masks in the cha…
Trump team thought UK officials ‘out of their minds’ aiming for herd immunity, book says
Trump officials tried to convince him to take threat seriously and British experts ‘oddly pessimistic’ on defeating virus, says bookUS officials thought their British counterparts “were out of their minds” in aiming for herd immunity as part of Boris J…
Seamus Jennings on Priti Patel’s approach to refugees — cartoon
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Downing Street hints pensions triple lock will be watered down
Boris Johnson’s spokesperson has said there are concerns about tying state pensions rise to earningsDowning Street has given its strongest signal yet that the pensions triple lock will be watered down because of the recent surge in average earnings, wh…
The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s foreign policy: a lethal vacuum | Editorial
Parochial complacency define the prime minister’s view of the world, leaving him unequal to the crisis in AfghanistanThe prime minister told parliament on Wednesday that Britain was prepared for the fall of Kabul and also that it could not have been f…
The Afghanistan debate showed that Boris Johnson’s flaws lead directly to tragedy | Zoe Williams
For Starmer, the point was ‘what are the human consequences when power is held by someone so unfit?’The initial shock of a packed House of Commons, recalled in recess for an emergency debate on Afghanistan, was how unfamiliar the packed green benches n…
Boris Johnson struggles to justify Afghanistan stance to hostile MPs
Analysis: PM fails to make convincing defence of foreign policy amid criticism from across the CommonsAfghanistan latest updates – liveOther leaders have had the luxury of being able to deliver an uninterrupted televised address. But Boris Johnson had …
Tories rebuke Boris Johnson over ‘catastrophic’ Afghanistan failure
Former PM Theresa May says country ‘may once again become a breeding ground for terrorism’Afghanistan live news: latest updatesBoris Johnson faced a wall of fury from all wings of the Conservative party over the UK’s conduct in Afghanistan, with 11 for…