The Waugh Zone
Starmer starting to pick away at the PM’s vulnerabilities on crime and security
Better definition requires consistent comms. Just ask the PM.
The PM hates political costs much more than financial ones
Textbook by-election conditions, but the national picture is less clear
Dido Harding learned the hard way that Test and Trace was not enough
Blaming the health secretary would give Johnson a convenient alibi for his own failures
Sage modelling suggests even a delay to July 19 spells many more deaths than the worst flu outbreak
One date, not data, is now in the driving seat
Moderates hope for a ‘clean sweep’. But Howard Beckett thinks he’s got the momentum.
Foreign hols looking unlikely but the real danger is how fast the Indian variant spreads at home