Rishi Sunak has encouraged people to be “comfortable failing” when they start businesses during a conversation with billionaire Elon Musk. The pair...
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Senior civil servants “wanted” people to get COVID like chickenpox to build herd immunity, according to messages read out during an inquiry into...
Matt Hancock wanted to “ultimately decide who should live and who should die” if hospitals were overwhelmed in the pandemic, according to a former...
An MP suspended by Labour over comments he made about the Middle East conflict has threatened to take legal action against a fellow politician over a post he...
More than half of people feel politicians are using so-called culture wars to distract from other issues, according to a survey which also found the term...
Boris Johnson has claimed he was forced to plunge the UK into lockdown because of NHS “bed blocking”. In a section of his witness statement shared...
Rishi Sunak has said the UK’s AI safety summit will “tip the balance in favour of humanity” after governments reached a “landmark...
After the many bombshells from Dominic Cummings’s evidence yesterday, what we heard today was calm, but devastating. Helen McNamara was the deputy...
Only one in 10 voters who supported the Tories in 2019 have switched to Labour, according to a major new poll for Sky News. The exclusive YouGov survey of...
Matt Hancock showed “nuclear levels” of confidence at the start of the COVID pandemic – and “regularly” told colleagues in...
Boris Johnson asked his most senior scientific advisers if blowing a “special hair dryer” up your nose could kill COVID, according to Dominic...
Boris Johnson’s government displayed an “unbelievably bullish” approach to coronavirus early in the pandemic and sat “laughing at the...
There is a danger on days like today of focusing on dazzling but smaller-scale revelations that have come out of today’s evidence at the COVID inquiry...
There was no shielding plan early in the pandemic and vulnerable groups were “appallingly neglected” as a “fatalistic” approach took...
Boris Johnson suggested he saw COVID as “nature’s way of dealing with old people” and was “obsessed” with them accepting their...
WhatsApp messages sent at the height of COVID paint a picture of how senior officials really felt about the government’s handling of the pandemic. The...