Politics

During an exchange on the Union and the prospect of a second independence referendum, Dr Philippa Whitford asked Alister Jack, the Scotland secretary, whether he believes “the best recipe for a happy marriage is to lock up the wife, take away her chequebook and just keep refusing a divorce?”

As the rest of us crawl out of the Covid trenches - dazed, confused and war-weary - we will be sent straight back to the frontline, to deal with the economic fall-out from Brexit.

Labour’s analysis of PR spending by the Government revealed the vast bulk of the £130 million was part of a four-year deal with Manning Gottlieb OMD signed in 2018, rather than a response to the pandemic.

Not for the first time, the Conservatives find that their own self-interest and a principle of good governance coincide.

According to a House of Lords report around 340,000 UK adults are addicted to betting.

Billions of pounds have been handed out in an opaque process that has every appearance of having been politically motivated – a cross-party committee found.

Senior Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne also slammed the former PM, saying: "There are no small nations, only small minds".

Kate Bingham hired a boutique PR firm, whose director is a long-term business associate of Sir Humphry Wakefield.

Downing Street said that a ‘technical’ error caused the situation.