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Back to SearchIntroducing Payne's Politics
The UK Politics podcast is getting a fresh look. From Saturday, July 4, your weekly look at British politics will become Payne's Politics. Every week…
5 years, 6 months ago
The great British unlocking, plus RLB and Sedwill are out
Boris Johnson announced this week that July 4 would be the UK’s Independence Day, when swaths of the economy would reopen. But is the prime minister …
5 years, 6 months ago
U-turns on free school meals and tracking app, No10 wades further into culture war
Boris Johnson caved in to Marcus Rashford’s campaign to provide free school meals over the summer holidays, but why did it take so long? No 10 respon…
5 years, 6 months ago
Conservative anger grows over Covid crisis, and should statues be pulled down?
Tory ministers and MPs were furious this week at Downing Street’s refusal to ease the 2m social distancing rule to boost the ailing economy. Will Bor…
5 years, 7 months ago
Quarantine fallout, queueing in parliament, chaos at the top and the UK’s offer to Hong Kong
Boris Johnson’s government found itself confused this week about why it was introducing a 14-day quarantine for all arrivals in the UK. Ministers and…
5 years, 7 months ago
The battle to save Dominic Cummings and the launch of test and trace
Westminster has been engulfed by the extraordinary row over Boris Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings and whether he broke the UK’s lockdown rul…
5 years, 7 months ago
School wars, tracing app woes, Boris Johnson’s health charge U-turn and back to Brexit
The government found itself in a mess this week over whether schools can return on June 1, with teaching unions and local authorities arguing it is n…
5 years, 7 months ago
Johnson’s easing plan begins, mixed messaging and the rising cost of furlough
Boris Johnson revealed his gradual plan for taking the UK out of lockdown, but his government’s new strategy was undermined by confused messages. Why…
5 years, 8 months ago
Slowly easing the lockdown, rising costs and how Keir Starmer will lead Labour
Boris Johnson will finally set his exit strategy this weekend, but any changes will be gradual and limited. Why is the prime minister reluctant to mo…
5 years, 8 months ago
Boris Johnson returns, lifting the lockdown with the R rate and Britain’s alarming death rate
The prime minister returned to Downing Street this week and began to set out how the lockdown will end. Why is Johnson relying on the science and the…
5 years, 8 months ago