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What Do Those Free School Meals ‘Ration Parcels’ Tell Us About Modern Britain?

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You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. Way back in 2004, Boris Johnson once claimed that “nailing [Tony] Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall”. The observation is not without irony, given the current PM’s own habit of trying to avoid being pinned down on various Covid policy missteps. As it happens, Johnson’s government is in many ways now taking lessons from Blair, not least on his key recommendation to delay second doses of vaccines and use the supplies to instead double the number...

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