Boris Johnson has imposed a manifesto-busting 1.25-point rise in national insurance, taking public spending to its highest ever level in peacetime
Boris Johnson appeared, on the surface at least, super-confident as parliament returned last week to tackle the vast backlog of challenges that Covid-19 has left piled high in ministerial in-trays across Whitehall.
On a visit to a care home in east London, the prime minister cheerfully clasped a mug saying Love Social Care before heading, full of energy and jokes, to the House of Commons to make a statement on how he proposed to fund the health and care systems out of the crises in which both are mired. But his characteristic ebullience hid a new determination in government, a new calculation.
