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 One person who is having a good coronavirus crisis is the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak who is now 5/2 favourite to become the next Prime Minister with SportingIndex leapfrogging LAB leader hopeful Kier Starmer in the betting. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was praised last week for his rousing speech detailing how local businesses and households would be supported during the Coronavirus outbreak, which has led the betting firm to slash his odds from 9/1 to 5/2. Sir Kier Starmer, who was…

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The potential of the coronavirus crisis to change our politics One of the great ironies of the current fight against the coronavirus is that the prime minister overseeing the biggest clampdown on personal liberties in peacetime is Boris Johnson who as a journalist made a name for himself by taking on what he would often term the “Nanny State”. The headline that stands out on this morning’s front pages is that in the Daily Telegraph the paper that Boris used…

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The question is how does this end? By any standards the live TV broadcast by Boris Johnson tonight was with without precedent in peacetime given how it takes away a huge amount of the freedom and discretion enjoyed by the individuals with the aim of impeding the impact of the coronavirus. Looking back we were being prepared for this over the past few days and in many ways it is less rigid than perhaps some of us had feared. I…

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So what happens in the SNP now? There have been huge divisions in the SNP over Alex Salmond. They are now likely to play out in public. The ramifications could be huge. — Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) March 23, 2020

The pages from this morning’s papers could not be clearer about out what’s likely to happen next as the government tries to dampen the impact of the coronavirus epidemic. To confine large numbers of people in the homes is a big step but it might be the only way that it can be controlled at this stage. In fact if you watched the briefing yesterday afternoon this was only a minor part to come out but it is clearly the…

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Within the last hour I got an email from someone whose judgement on US politics that I trust raising the possibility of Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, being the Democratic nominee. He wrote: “Lots of money going on Cuomo for Democrat nominee today. Lots of chatter on Twitter lots of blog posts… people believe the senile Biden will be swapped out at the DNC in some kind of brokered convention or voluntary stand-aside, for Cuomo, the current media star…

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