Ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott - who is being lined up as Boris Johnson’s new post-Brexit trade ambassador - described lockdown as “virtual house arrest” and lashed out at “virus hysteria” and "unaccountable experts” in a speech in London.
If Covid19 can indeed be cured by tonic water as claimed, let’s hope there’s also a cure for stupid.
Abbott is being tipped to advise Britain - his birthplace - on how to seize trade opportunities after Brexit, with the Sun reporting that the socially conservative ex-PM is set to become the UK’s “new trade deal supremo”.
According to the Sunday Times, ministers are looking at raising capital gains tax and corporation tax in the next Budget, in November. The money could be reportedly raised from pensions, businesses, the wealthy, and foreign aid.
The polar bear was found dead in a car park by the nearby airport after being shot by onlookers.
The organisation said the prime minister’s approach towards “radical Islam” had encouraged the majority of its membership to join the party.
"There is an existential threat to human life and if we took climate change as seriously as this pandemic then we are surely capable of making massive changes very, very rapidly”.
“We’ve seen in the past that the sudden collapse of ice shelves can trigger rapid acceleration of the glaciers that flow into them, and, in turn, sea-level rise."
The former business minister took 63.5 per cent of the vote.