I watch some of the daily 5pm press briefings from Downing Street. There seems to be an ever-widening gulf between what we learn from whichever cabinet minister draws the short straw - Dominic Raab, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove or Rishi Sunak - and what we learn from the scientists and medical experts to their left and right. Raab looks like a startled deer caught in the headlights, Hancock looks increasingly out of his depth, Gove looks like something you’d buy with pocket money from a joke shop. Sunak at least looks competent, though the job he was tasked to do, as Chancellor, was to pile up debts which will take years, maybe a generation, to pay off.
Boris will no doubt be back at the podium soon, though he doesn’t inspire much confidence either. Despite all the promises, about PPE, testing, vaccines, etc, we are lacking a calm, reassuring presence at the podium who can offer more than the current platitudinous slogan: “Stay home, protect the NHS and save lives”.
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