Ministers and advisers are braced for an inquiry exposing smugness, chaos, fatal blunders and woeful preparations at the heart of Government obsessed with Brexit triumphalism. Jeremy Corbyn was too much Me-Me-Me self-congratulatory in a BBC interview but Labour’s outgoing leader is on the money asserting this crisis justifies his politics. He will have no mandate for what comes next whether that is tax rises or vicious spending cuts repeating austerity’s self-defeating stupidity. Bonfires of what Conservatives call red tape, and what we know as job rights and health and safety will doubtless be considered. Starmer may be averse to a General Election next May to coincide with delayed council contests.

Source: Daily Mirror March 29, 2020 19:55 UTC