Boris Johnson and most of his frontbench choose not to cover faces in packed parliamentary chamberCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCabinet ministers have been accused of undermining Covid advice and putting MPs’ and parliamen…
West Midlands mayor tells PM: ‘Red wall voters want to see delivery’
Andy Street says the region’s new Tory voters need concrete policies to match Boris Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ pledgeBoris Johnson has been urged by one of the most senior Conservative figures outside London to match the symbolism of his “levelling up” p…
UK net zero delay has left room for sceptics’ attacks, says government climate adviser
Lord Deben says he is ‘pressing very hard’ to get details of strategy published as Cop26 approachesBoris Johnson’s delay in publishing the net zero emissions strategy has left a space for climate sceptics to “complain, attack and undermine” on cost gro…
Gordon Brown hits out at EU’s ‘neocolonial approach’ to Covid vaccine supplies
Former UK prime minister calls on western leaders to convene summit to address Africa’s vaccine deficitGordon Brown: the world is making billions of Covid vaccine doses, so why is Africa not getting them?Gordon Brown has accused the EU of adopting a “n…
The Observer view on the fall of Afghanistan | Observer editorial
The Taliban’s rapid advance is chilling but a united response can still avert catastropheThe fall of Afghanistan to fundamentalist Taliban forces is a disaster foretold. Although the capital, Kabul, remains in government hands, the scale and speed of t…
Overconfident and rebellious – Johnson will rue the day he made a Tory party in his own image | Martin Kettle
Clashes over the climate crisis and Covid are revealing deep divisions in government. A time of reckoning is approachingCompared with the fate of the globe, that of Boris Johnson is infinitesimally trivial. Yet the two things are interconnected. In Nov…
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The Guardian view on French Covid pass protesters: attention must be paid | Editorial
Emmanuel Macron’s new health measures are generally backed. But a worryingly large minority no longer trusts the state to act in the interests of allBy French standards, the protests which have now taken place across the country on four consecutive wee…
Why public schoolboys like me and Boris Johnson aren’t fit to run our country
Our elite schools foster emotional austerity and fierce clique loyalty. Here a privately educated writer of the prime minister’s generation reveals the lasting damage public schools doScroll down for a Q&A with Richard BeardI had a feeling I couldn…
Boris Johnson’s approval rating slips to lowest level since he became prime minister
Bad news for the Tories does not necessarily lead to good news for Labour: backing for Keir Starmer is also downBoris Johnson’s personal approval rating has slipped to its lowest level since he became prime minister, according to the latest Opinium pol…