Perhaps he will contest the 2024 presidential contest at the age of nearly 82. But expectation that he may not will surely undermine his authority.
Closing the transition period at the end of the year will cause even greater problems than necessary.
It’s very early to draw conclusions from America’s elections – though the President’s challenge to the results has been coming for some time.
The fact, however, that he has won five million more votes than he did in 2016 does tell us that we cannot write him off as an aberration.
The fifth in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and aiding those in deep poverty.
Those words from Jeremy Wright capture the spirit of many Tory MPs who voted for lockdown yesterday. Ministers be warned.
The UK depends on international structures to exercise power on the world stage. Biden would restore them, and it should be our duty to assist him.
The fourth in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
Until or unless they receive assurances from Ministers that an impact assessment will be published, they should withhold their support.
The third in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
We know is that a lockdown is very damaging. The first one took around a quarter off our national income and output. We cannot afford to do that again.
To both treat every Covid patient who needs it and maintain regular services through the ‘winter crisis’, the NHS needs a more muscular intervention.
Devolution to metro mayors offers the perfect vehicle for the establishment and growth of regional mutual banks. They can be mission and geography-led.