

Of course, Britain has decided it doesn't want to relitigate lockdown we're just going to pretend it didn't happen.

You can tell this is a man who thinks we should put anyone on a skateboard into protective custody.) (O'Brien told broadcasters that the police had done a good job over the weekend. He even set up a website dedicated to criticising dissenters, making him a hero among authoritarians - those managerial bullies who seem to have colonised our institutions.

A handful of people at the time dared to ask if the policy was going to work Mr O'Brien took huge pleasure in shooting them down, no doubt intimidating some into silence. Britain had something called a lockdown: that's why the NHS is on its knees. And how, pray, did that come about? A hero among authoritarians The Today programme stuck the knife in, surgically, by noting that allowing pharmacists to diagnose colds is a drop in the ocean considering the enormous backlog facing the NHS. "You promised 6,000 new GPs", BBC Breakfast reminded him - so where are they? "We do have 2,000 more doctors," said Neil and the discrepancy was spotted and pointed out.

Never mind animation our minister for health appears reanimated. But whatever spad was following him around the studios must have been tearing their hair out at his cold manner. I don't envy him having to discuss "impetigo" and "sinusitis" on a dozen broadcasters his "urinary tract" got tongue tied on Good Morning Britain. Softly-spoken, faintly menacing, he has one of those smiles that when the photographer says, "Smile please," he replies through gritted teeth "I am smiling". If this is the big idea then you need a big man to sell it, but the media round on day one of the great fight back went to Neil O'Brien, which was self-defeating in some key respects.įirst, he's Neil O'Brien. Just drop your wife off and she should be ready for collection in about an hour. I don't know if you knew this but the PM grew up in an NHS family, and this story is so fundamental to his life experience that it's emerging as the central plank in Tory policy. Today Rishi wants chemists to prescribe antibiotics tomorrow they will be able to deliver babies in Boots. A photo shoot at a pharmacy in Southampton. As Britain took down the coronation bunting, and the police let the republicans out of jail, Rishi relaunched the Conservative Party by returning to home turf.
