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"I think there is absolutely no doubt that the absence of ministers did have a significant impact on our ability to develop new policy"

Sir Michael McBride made his comments as he was giving evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry.

When was it, do you think, that banks stopped being institutions that kept your money and started being guardians of public morality? Time was, I would get hauled into the Berkeley Square branch of the Allied Irish Bank (GB) to explain my overdraft situation; now bank managers have disappeared along…

In January, as the economic storm clouds lingered over Westminster, like a gigantic Monty Python-style anthracite boot, I spent a bit of time with the people looking after Sir Keir Starmer. They were doing what all parties do at times like this when they think they might be in with…