Travel and the virus. Ministers face some of the hardest decisions yet as they plot UK’s next course.

Travel and the virus. Ministers face some of the hardest decisions yet as they plot UK’s next course.

Tomorrow, the Government faces an extraordinarily difficult decision: what does it do about international arrivals, given the increasing threat of new Coronavirus strains? Since the “UK” and “South Africa” variants were discovered, ministers are understandably fearful about other mutations getting into the country, which could undermine progress – and, even worse, prove resistant to the…

James Heywood: A GBP20 blanket uplift in Universal Credit would miss an opportunity for better targeted change

James Heywood: A GBP20 blanket uplift in Universal Credit would miss an opportunity for better targeted change

James Heywood is the Head of Welfare and Opportunity at the Centre for Policy Studies. One of the iron laws of politics is that it is very easy to give things away and extremely difficult to take them back again. That can prove a particular problem when a government has had to put in place…

New Congresswoman Vows to Stand Against Radical Agenda of Leftist ‘Squad’
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New Congresswoman Vows to Stand Against Radical Agenda of Leftist ‘Squad’

Freshman Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., is one of several new members of Congress who have formed the “Freedom Force.” The group of conservative Republican leaders says it will stand against the far-left agenda being promoted by the so-called squad led by fellow New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other liberal Democrats.  Malliotakis is the daughter…