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It is claimed that Rishi Sunak is set to be ‘absolutely slaughtered’ for his failure to hand over WhatsApp messages to the probe

Rishi Sunak has defended the Eat Out to Help Out scheme as a crucial means of supporting restaurants and protecting jobs.

The prime minister appeared before the COVID inquiry today - defending his Eat Out to Help Out scheme and revealing Treasury concerns that the UK would not be able to fund the pandemic response.

PM says there was ‘over-compliance’ with stay at home order, and other European countries kept more industries running

Last week, former prime minister Boris Johnson defended his actions and hit out at "dramatic" representations of the Partygate revelations.

A fifth of the British public would support Covid restrictions being reintroduced, according to new polling.

The chancellor defended his Eat Out to Help Out initiative, saying it was ‘the right thing to do’

Rishi Sunak has defended policies encouraging customers back into the hospitality and leisure trade at the height of the pandemic as a "matter…

Rishi Sunak’s evidence to the Covid Inquiry was a refreshing change from the back-covering and the pro-lockdown groupthink that has characterised the appearances of so many others at Lady Hallett’s hearings. The inquiry remains weirdly obsessed with Eat Out to Help Out – which has received an excessive amount of attention for a policy that was only in place for a month. But Mr Sunak still managed to make a number of important observations that, if it has any interest in bein...

A second wave of the Covid pandemic was coming, even without the policy