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The national lockdown may be ending next week, but the plan to introduce a toughened-up three-tier system to replace it does not sound like any meaningful let up in the devastating restrictions the country faces. Indeed, coming just before Christmas, it will be a hammer blow for shops and restaurants.

There is always an issue when an adviser obtains a public profile which competes with their leader. From Thomas Cromwell to Dominic Cummings, it almost always ends suddenly, but this time there is one significant difference – the public is deeply invested.

Magnitsky style sanctions should be applied immediately to officials and politicians in Hong Kong and China, or we risk defaulting on our promises to the people of Hong Kong.

Liberal democracies' failure to cope with the impact of coronavirus has been a gift to the despotic regime.

Scientific advisers cannot afford to ignore the fact that the collapsing economy isn't just about money but about health and well-being, too.

It’s been a tough ten months for Boris Johnson.

Riding high on the back of a ­landslide election victory with a plan to get Brexit done, he must have thought he would cruise through EU talks.

The coronavirus crisis means that, by the end of this year, there could be four million people who want a job but don't have one.

The appalling state-sponsored human rights abuses being perpetrated in Tibet and Xinjiang demand a far tougher response.

The UK has reached a critical moment in securing its post-Brexit future. This week, Boris Johnson’s government introduced important legislation, the internal market bill, to ensure the maintenance of a free market in goods and services within the four nations of the UK after leaving the EU.