“I think it’s important to emphasise all this that whereas we may be told that these are teething troubles, or that they’re down to Covid-19, it is simply is not the case."
"I have not grounded him because he is already suffering enough from the lockdown and does not go out as much as he used to."
The former head of Ofsted recently hit out at the education secretary, saying "he has got a lot wrong up to now, hasn’t he."
“Those who championed Brexit and are crying salty tears now because of the consequences of Brexit need to accept that those are consequences of their decisions, their actions, and to not point the finger at others.”
“This isn’t right. No-one should have to suffer the indignity of relying on emergency food."
Sunak has apparently told allies that Britain is approaching a “fat lady sings moment” - where lockdown should be lifted, never to return - despite the country still recording close to 20,000 new Covid-19 infections every day.
The government has said it is going ahead with its plan for quarantine hotels - but it is still not clear when the scheme will start.
It is suspected to have been caused by a combination of high winds and rain freezing after being absorbed into the chalk and then expanding.
“This was not a minor oversight by an inexperienced individual within a large organisation, but a catalogue of serious errors by a number of people that should have been, but were not, picked up by any of the internal systems and safeguards that were put in place to regulate what ...