The date at which lockdown should end is debatable. That MPs and peers should be debating it is not.
Those who argue that the virus isn’t a serious problem and that the lockdown was unnecessary have more brains than sense.
The Government needs to give shape and definition to its backroom plans to end the lockdown. His colleagues must support the man in charge.
I’m acutely aware that in our rural communities, where we are a few weeks behind major cities, knowing someone in hospital is more rare.
Plus: And a Coronavirus Social Justice Minister. Give thanks for Starmer. And: it’s time for a Virtual Parliament.
The part of the country that is working well is the part that is not waiting for people in a risk-averse chain of centralised command to make a decision.
If you really want to see how we’re pulling together, the best example is taking shape now at the NEC, outside Birmingham – the new NHS Nightingale Hospital.
The Prime Minister’s hospitalisation accentuates the need for a new strategic structure to support a new strategic plan.
We are looking at a possible deep recession, with a big surge in jobless and the loss of substantial capacity to produce goods and services for the future.
A deep reservoir of community and contribution, obscured in normal times, has been uncovered by our present situation.
Plus: Treasury and Work & Pensions lessons. Greenlighters v the rest. Remembering Attlee’s surplus. And: the key question now is “how”, not “what”.
Whether moderate right Conservative, or moderate left, austerity is dead, and this new age will be with us for a long time to come.
The perils and volatility that the Coronavirus – that ultimate leveller-down – brings with it suddenly endanger last year’s near-landslide winner.
It should be moved away from how we stop becoming infected ourselves and start to focus on how we stop infecting those who might be at particular risk.
When a drop in the curve of the virus is seen, the public’s health mustn’t be endangered by a blinkered pursuit of balancing the books.