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Updated 1 hour ago Forget Gavin Williamson, it’s the PM who is the real target of Collins’ broadside You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. This was meant to be a quiet week. Commons in recess, a ‘holding pattern’ on Covid, Whitehall treading water while it waits for the latest data on the pandemic. Aside from an update on foreign travel from Grant Shapps on Thursday, the big ‘event’ marked on the No.10 grid was today’s catch-up cash for schools.  An emergency £1.4bn, on top of an extra £1.7bn a...

Updated 4 hours ago Tricky questions for Hancock and the PM about the past, but caution now has premium You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. Whenever journalists hear a politician sidestep a direct question from MPs, our antennae twitch. When that politician repeatedly body swerves the same question from reporters, we smell a rat. Yet time and again, ministers seem unaware of the old newsroom motto: you can’t bullshit a bullshitter. Despite Matt Hancock breezing confidently through Commons questions on Thu...

What a week.

1. No.10 was a Covid chaos zone The whole point of Dominic Cummings’ evidence was to provide the first draft of the history of the government’s handling of the pandemic. While his personal opinions on what went wrong can be dismissed, his eye-witness testimony cannot be easily shrugged off. And on that score, he didn’t disappoint, giving vivid accounts of the chaos in Downing Street as Covid hit landfall in March 2020. His description of the events of over two key days allowed the public a glimpse of just how Boris Johnson runs, or doesn’t run, his government. On the “insane day” ...

Updated 5 hours ago Boris Johnson Proves Travel Policy Chaos Works As Well At Home As Abroad After ‘amber list’ confusion, PM under fire over advice on trips to and from Covid hotspots You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. You’ve got to feel for the people of Bolton. Under the government’s current Covid travel guidance, they’re advised against visiting a neighbouring town, but they are allowed to get on a jet to a ‘green list’ country. Travelling to 1,000 miles to Lisbon is fine. A trip down the r...