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Updated 05/03/2021 07:46 GMT The Budget Is Barely Cold, But Has Rishi Sunak’s Mask Slipped Already? "Pitiful" NHS pay offer could chill the national mood after the chancellor’s warm words. You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. If anyone needed further proof that Rishi Sunak is a different kind of Tory chancellor, the morning after the Budget before gave us yet more evidence. On the back of his tax-raising plans, Sunak was asked by the Today programme’s Mishal Husain whether he now rejected the tra...

Chancellor may not want his signature, or fingerprints, on some consequences of his decisions.

Can Keir Starmer Persuade The Public There’s A ‘Right Time’ To Increase Taxes? Labour leader under pressure, but can his "partnership with business" avoid the tax/spend conundrum? PA Labour leader Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds during a visit to the Portsmouth Gin Distillery in Southsea, Portsmouth. You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. It’s February 2021 and Jeremy Corbyn is prime minister, leading the UK’s fight against the Covid pandemic. John McDonnell is chancellor, sitting in his Treasur...

Updated 26/02/2021 21:14 GMT Will JVT’s ‘Don’t Wreck It’ Message Be Heard By The Chancellor Too? Variegated map of UK suggests behaviour change needed from politicians not just the public. You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. Jonathan Van-Tam has become one of the break-out stars of the pandemic thanks to his direct, no-nonsense style. When the nation was coming out of lockdown last summer, the deputy chief medical officer (known affectionately as JVT) was the one who famously told us not to ...

Updated 25/02/2021 07:27 GMT Why Teachers Won’t Get Fast-Tracked In Boris Johnson’s Covid Vaccine Rollout Key workers not high risk enough to defy scientists’ age-before-occupation priority list. You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. The question of whether key workers should be fast-tracked for Covid vaccinations has been a simmering topic for several weeks. But after evidence to the Commons science and technology committee on Wednesday, will the whole issue now boil over? Priti Patel made plain ...