How long will political and public patience last?
It seems Freedom Day is no longer June 21st. The writing was clearly on the wall this morning, but now the Prime Minister has officially told the public, it is likely to be another four weeks of restr...
14 Jun 202110min
How can Boris justify delay?
Boris Johnson is expected to announce a delay to reopening later today. How will the Prime Minister make his case, and will his backbenchers support him? Separately, world leaders bumped elbows over t...
14 Jun 202117min
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 13/06/21
Isabel Hardman hosts the highlights from Sunday's political shows. Featured today are Dominic Raab, Gordon Brown, Emily Thornberry, Micheál Martin and Professor Andrew Hayward.Become a Spectator subsc...
13 Jun 20219min
Should we delay 21 June?
On Monday, the Prime Minister will announce whether the 21 June unlocking is to go ahead. Because of the increased transmissibility of the Indian Covid variant, cases in the UK are continuing to rise....
12 Jun 202130min
Can the G7 beat Russia and China's vaccine diplomacy?
As the G7 rolls on and the world leaders learn where their peers stand on certain issues post Covid, the wealthy western nations need to decide how best to help vaccinate the world's poorer countries ...
11 Jun 202110min
Could Brexit scupper the G7?
The long-anticipated G7 meeting in Cornwall has got off to a rocky start today, as it transpired that the US had lodged a 'demarché' - a diplomatic ultimatum - with David Frost, earlier in the week, o...
10 Jun 202113min
Are Brexit talks back to the bad old days?
Today, talks between David Frost and the EU's negotiator Maroš Šefčovič ended with little agreement about how to move forward on the Northern Ireland Protocol. Isabel Hardman talks to Katy Balls and J...
9 Jun 202110min
Is the foreign aid row a sign of things to come?
Though the amendment on foreign aid was not selected by the Speaker yesterday, the row over the budget cut is not over yet. Today MPs will have an emergency debate about the policy, and Lindsey Hoyle ...
8 Jun 202113min
