Keeping the economy afloat and the people healthy – the Omicron challenge
Boris Johnson is between a rock and hard place. Go gentle and the NHS may fall over. Go hard his Tory vote would collapse, possibly his own position.
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Are we going to have another COVID wave?
This is a critical moment for the country when it enters a season that infection rates shoot up: schools return, holiday makers return to the office, and rules have been relaxed.
Labour using Tory sleaze won’t cut it with voters
Over the past week since the Guardian exposed the farce of the prime minister's flat refurbishment the leader of the opposition, Kier Starmer, had made it his mission to maximize the embarrassment factor for Boris Johnson. There was the bizarre photo opportunity in a store with wallpaper to ram home the message.
Brexit and the return of sovereignty
The Brexit deal is the end of the beginning by Robert Tombs on Unherd Boris has succeeded where all others failed by Matthew Goodwin on Unherd The outcome of the Brexit deal is being interpreted according to where your loyalties…
Maurice Glasman: how the fates abandoned Boris
Maurice Glasman in his article in Unherd “how the fates abandoned Boris” nails the blindspot Labour suffered from in the last election”: the Tories understood that the long-term disaffection of Labour’s heartland voters with globalisation and abandonment combined with the…