As the daily death rate edges closer to 1,000 YouGov finds strong support for a unity government to deal with the crisis

As the daily death rate edges closer to 1,000 YouGov finds strong support for a unity government to deal with the crisis

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63% of Brits support a national unity government for the duration of the #covid19 crisis – including a majority (54%) of Conservative voters https://t.co/rSTOdNTVxP https://t.co/5iT8aOkAai — YouGov (@YouGov) April 8, 2020 This latest polling which was published overnight is really quite remarkable and shows the impact of two things; the growing crisis and sense of helplessness as the lockdown looks set to go on and on and secondly how the political world has changed with Sir Kier Starmer now being…

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Biden moves to a 92% chance on Betfair following the Sanders pull-out & Harris remains VP favourite

Biden moves to a 92% chance on Betfair following the Sanders pull-out & Harris remains VP favourite

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Following last night’s Wisconsin primary the big WH2020 news today has been the widely expected withdrawal from the race by Bernie Sanders. This means that Biden now has a clear run into to what would have been the convention in three and a half months. That clearly remains very much in doubt because of the epidemic and the party will be looking at other ways of staging the convention which would give the nominee a big publicity boost. One feature…

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How Trump and his media acolytes got the coronavirus wrong

How Trump and his media acolytes got the coronavirus wrong

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Might be problematical in election year The above compilation of clips, mostly from Fox News, shows how leading media supporters of the President and Trump himself were viewing the epidemic only a few weeks ago. Since then the US has become the nation most affected and Trump has changed his tune. His latest is blaming the World Health Organisation. The initial stance from the White House was reflected in the polling. In mid-March Ipsos found that 63% of Democrats and…

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The nation rallies to Boris but who’ll now make the critical decisions?

The nation rallies to Boris but who’ll now make the critical decisions?

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Is there a need for a temporary PM? Today’s front pages very much sum up the the mood of the nation and the political issues created by the continued hospitalisation of the prime minister who has been in intensive care now for a second night. All this comes at the height of the biggest peacetime emergency that the UK has seen in generations. A huge issue that will have to be decided in the coming days and weeks is how…

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As the crisis continues time to relax in Tuesday’s PB Nighthawks cafe

As the crisis continues time to relax in Tuesday’s PB Nighthawks cafe

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What a strange period this is and it is hard to see things in perspective. That the man leading the fight against the virus is seriously ill after getting it himself is totally shocking and makes me for one feel very uneasy and worried. The lockdown seems to have been going on for an eternity as we try to find something positive with each new set of daily virus statistics. We can’t even take those numbers as giving the whole…

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That Boris could be so afflicted brings home in a powerful way why the shutdown is necessary

That Boris could be so afflicted brings home in a powerful way why the shutdown is necessary

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That the man who just four months ago led the Conservatives to their biggest General Election Victory in decades should now be in intensive care with the coronavirus brings home the sheer magnitude of what the world is facing and why governments are going to extraordinary lengths to try to impede it. This is a killer and at the moment there’s no way of of stopping it. What makes him being afflicted more striking is that Boris is in his…

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Boris goes into intensive care

Boris goes into intensive care

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Boris Johnson was taken to ICU at St Thomas’s Hospital about 7pm. He remains conscious, ICU is a precaution in case he needs ventilation. Dominic Raab asked to deputise for PM if necessary. — Tom Barton (@tombarton) April 6, 2020