Wakey Wakey.
Steve Harvey
Blighty is in the shop window like never before. And it needs a makeover.
Alamy/Dominic Dudley
In the absence of a brand, the Labour leader’s opponents are creating one for him.
Keir Starmer delivers a speech virtually.
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Empty chambers and cancelled conferences deny the public a vital feedback loop when politicians are presenting their ideas.
PA/Alamy
If anything, the past few years have shown us why it should be difficult for a prime minister to call an election at will.
Andy Rain/EPA/AAP
After winning a landslide victory at the last election, the UK prime minister’s political capital is slipping away thanks to his inept handling of the COVID crisis.
Stefani Reynolds/EPA
We shouldn’t see politicians and scientists as residing in distinct, separate realms.
How’d you figure that, Boris?
EPA/Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily
It might not have been good for Johnson, but things seem to be working out well for Scottish workers.
A very public exit for Dominic Cummings.
PA/Yui Mok
The idea that Boris Johnson was under some kind of spell during the Cummings era is a convenient one for him.
I know how it looks, but he never gave me IT lessons. Honest.
PA/Stefan Rousseau
This was always a marriage of convenience for the UK prime minister. But that doesn’t mean it will be an easy divorce.
Biden has stronger views on Brexit than Donald Trump.
EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo
The question of the Irish border after Brexit is a more pressing matter for the next president than it has been for his predecessor.
EPA/Will Oliver
Politics cannot be separated from emotion, as the past few months have clearly shown.
EPA/CJ Gunther
After four years of obstruction from Trump, European leaders have a long wish list and are impatient to get to work with Joe Biden.
EPA/Neil Hall
The big losers from such a scenario would not be the countries of the European Union.
Andy Burnham has been in a war of words with central government.
PA/Jacob King
History shows that revenge is a dish often served cold in Westminster.
EPA/Will Oliver
Financial support is the way to protect health and the economy. Right now, Boris Johnson is achieving neither.
PA/Charlotte Graham
Those lefty do-good lawyers Johnson and Patel are so concerned about are a vital part of parliamentary democracy based on the rule of law. This is precisely why they continue to denigrate them.
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Despite Boris Johnson’s newfound enthusiasm for offshore wind farms, the UK risks going backwards on wind power capacity.
EPA-EFE/Karsten Klama
China has a monopoly on rare earth metals, so where will the materials for the UK’s wind revolution come from?
President Donald Trump may have removed his mask, but the uncertainty posed by his positive COVID-19 test continues.
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
What might be the global geopolitical significance of Trump’s positive COVID-19 test?
Are you going to tell him or shall I?
PA/Leon Neal
A pathological need to please is preventing the prime minister from breaking bad news.