I'm just going to put both hands over my face and look through my fingers.

Please wash your hands first!!!

On Channel 4 news last night they had the boss of the biggest care home group in the UK with a huge number of deaths - he was asked by the Murthy how many of their staff and customers had been tested he said 3,000 and they were working to get more but operationally this is difficult!! and then he was asked about PPE, his response was "we have and excellent procurement team, we saw this coming and we have not had any issues in respect of PPE" at which point G-Murthy closed down the interview, obviously didn't give him the ammunition he needed. Perhaps the Labour MP sacked for telling lies about PPE volunteered for this group?

It does beg the question why more testing is not being done - My company has Critical supplier status - we had two guys showed symptoms on Wednesday last week, we booked a test for both Thursday, they were tested Friday - negative results Monday. I cannot understand why all care home staff/customers have not been tested - it should be mandatory.

You are confusing now with the first few weeks when despite what Johnson might say there was clearly a problem particularly when they blatantly ignored care homes because they did not believe the virus would be a problem.
I would suggest Johnson tries to avoid any further confrontation with the Labour leader who is clearly nailing his bafoonery with facts every time they face each other.

Johnson, who is great at one liners and put downs, has never been strong on detail of anything - the cockney term is "blagger".
If Starmer or anyone else actually gets enough chances to pin him down, he will find more holes than the proverbial sieve.

You have to say that Johnson has done well to get the top job, with his likeable oaf act but, time will definitely catch him and when there is ever any proper scrutiny, he will be found wanting.
Mind you, he will very quickly send one of his puppets in to take the bullets, it's what he does.

The current PMQs format is showing him to be the make it up on the spot blagger that he really is. Without his braying mob, to jeer over the bluff and bluster, he's got absolutely nowhere to hide. Gone is the cocksure, swashbuckling, 'bring it on' attitude. He's been reduced to a sitting duck. The following two pictures sum him up, for me.

Its the one bonus of being the top man - someone takes the bullet for you. Johnson has served his purpose for the Tories, he killed the hard left Labour Corbynites in one night - never to be seen again. I would not be surprised if he steps down through ill health and allows Sunak to take over. He will certainly give Starmer a run intellectually/gravitas wise a run for his money.

One of the problems the Tories made and it was probably a left over from the GE - they put too many eggs in the NHS basket at the cost of everything. It worked the NHS coped really well sadly the care sector suffered.

Do you think that Sunak will still be a front bench politician when the Government have to balance the books.
All that he's done so far is to open the country's wallet and boy, has he opened it.

Spending at a rate never witnessed in peace time.

If he gets through this one, with borrowing under control, he will probably be made king, never mind Prime Minister.
It's far more likely than Boris will use him as a fall guy and tell the country how he "trusted him to get us through this", as he eases him aside for yet another one of his cronies.

I was always told that it's easy to spend money and that anyone could do it, much more difficult to achieve the same results on a budget and he's certainly not sticking to any budget but, there will be a day of reckoning at some point and then we will see, not only how good the Chancellor is but, also how good Boris is under severe fiscal pressure and most importantly, there wont be the get out clause of the last 10+ years, where every difficult decision was blamed on Labour - I'm looking forward to it.

The coronavirus has given them an excuse for many many years financially - gullible lot us Brits, especially when there is no alternative in sight

Gullibility only lasts as long as it does not effect a person’s finances, when they realise that many will be paying more and working until they are 70 the lies of Johnson will quickly start to wear thin and scrutiny will increase. We all know he is not a big fan of being scrutinised or questioned without a large fridge about.

Sunak is a very bright individual who has plenty of personal wealth so he is not being an MP for the money so yes he will be around for the long haul. I agree he has thrown the kitchen sink at this - not sure what else he could have done - there would 4m unemployed if he hadn't. One thing is for certain if he gets the top job the cabinet will have significant intellectual horsepower - its the way professional firms work employ the best brains. It is the one thing Labour fear. Brains will always beat idealism it is why Starmer is making a better fist of it than Corbyn/McDonald/Long-Bailey did.

It will Boris that's eased out his flaws are there for all to see - he is a front man but like Trump that is OK for a short period. If there is no substance behind it the public will see through it - like they did Corbyn.

One thing the Tories will do is leave the EU with no deal - the damage will just get lost in the fiscal mess the virus has caused - no bad thing in my view, let's have a clean slate. Austerity will not return - perhaps big ticket projects will be canned, we will all just pay more taxes, pension allowance for top rate tax payers will go - quite rightly too, fuel duty will increase and I would expect to see dividends taxed differently too. As a lefty I'm sure you wont mind paying more tax - you have been calling for it for years.

Matt Hancock has just pretty much spat in the faces of the families who’ve lost loved ones in care homes. T**t.

It does not take long for the government’s true colours to come through. We have Priti Patel when questioned confirming the home office were looking into the imposition of the NHS charge levied on those non U.K. heroes in hospitals. The problem is that this was a Johnson they were not and had no intention of dropping the application of the £600 + charge each non U.K. resident and their family pay to access the NHS.

"Austerity will not return"
With record borrowing and a fiscal hole that is just fecking huge, how are the Tories, with their triple lock on tax going to pay down the new increased deficit, especially with massively shrinking tax receipts.

At the stare of the virus, there was talk of a cliff edge and a quick "bounce". However, with the easing of the lockdown likely to be slow and careful, the bounce will be akin to that of a cold squash ball, more of a thud on a cold floor and perhaps more interestingly, if you are right and there is not going to be a further period of austerity, why the hell did the poorest people in the country and our new hero's (in the NHS), have their livelihoods squeezed so far over the past 10+ years by the Troy party ??