Allowing Matt Hancock to jet off to imaginary South Korean firms – or to eat very real kangaroo testicles down in Oz – is the price one pays for half-decent representatives.
By publishing the Lockdown Files, Isabel Oakshott’s has exposed the complicity of much of our media class in the mishandling of the pandemic.
What these messages reveal – if we needed telling – is that politicians and scientists were overwhelmed by a crisis for which they were unprepared and did not understand.
The former Health Secretary, and newfound star of reality TV, seems oblivious to the air of bogusness which hangs over so many of his claims.
Starmer kept his questions short, relaxing into the role of a prosecutor who is confident of obtaining a guilty verdict.
As long as he donates his fee to charity, there is much to enjoy in the former Health Secretary eating a kangaroo’s penis in front of millions.
The former Health Secretary adds that the PM needs to “stop slagging off institutions that are the bedrock of prosperity.”
‘Let their frail elderly be unvisited in care homes. Let their weddings be postponed’, is the message of this Prime Minister.
It’s sticks and carrots from the Health Secretary as he attempts to boost face-to-face surgery appoinments.
Furthermore, by allowing the Queen to do this, the Government has dragged the monarch into the political murk.
The view one takes of the PM and the Leader of the Opposition depends on whether one is by temperament a cavalier or a puritan.
Like it or not, there is a trade-off between maximal accountability and effective government decision-making.
His in-tray features: Covid, mental health, NHS reform…and social care. He’s set to be the most pressured Health Secretary since Lansley.
In the debate about face-to-face appointments, it gets forgotten that some patients prefer video and telephone consultations.