The announcement this afternoon of Plan B restrictions on our lives - working from home, vaccine passports - is high risk on public health grounds. Because if the public see the timing as a cynical distraction from the Downing St Xmas party scandal, compliance will…
be even less than it would otherwise have been. And the heat of the anger from Tory MPs, already fuming as they face an onslaught of furious emails from voters about officials partying while they were banned from seeing sick loved ones, will incinerate anyone who…
comes too close. One senior Tory MP told me “with every day that passes, Boris Johnson unfitness to be prime minister becomes clearer”. This is an MP who always opposed Johnson. But every Tory MP I spoke to this morning was 1) demoralised the party happened at all and was…
2) incandescent that the prime minister’s official spokes people have consistently denied that it happened. “It is the lying that is doing us the most damage”, said another Tory MP. It is the collapse of trust in the government that alarms them most. In two minutes we’ll…
know how the PM hopes to her out of this hole
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