PAUL THOMAS on… best wishes for Boris

PAUL THOMAS on… best wishes for Boris By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 02:18 BST, 8 April 2020 | Updated: 02:18 BST, 8 April 2020 Advertisement To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178 Share or comment on this article:

Doctor leading Boris Johnson’s coronavirus treatment is one of the country’s foremost lung experts 

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Labour mayor is kicked out of the party for Boris Johnson coronavirus post

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How to get fab fruit at your fingertips with MONTY DON’s guide to growing your own at home 

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101-year-old woman escapes home to visit daughter amid Germany’s coronavirus lockdown

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Mother-of-five, 39, who died of coronavirus leaves behind 13-year-old miracle quadruplets

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New lab opened at Cambridge University to help Gov reach 100,000-a-day coronavirus testing target 

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Custard Cream one of nation’s guiltiest pleasures…but dangers that lurk beneath take the biscuit

As he worked tirelessly liaising with military planners, councils and medical personnel over the nightmarish logistics for the delivery of hundreds of thousands of food boxes to our most vulnerable, there emerged one controversy that Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick had not anticipated. It did not concern who was or was not entitled to a food … Read more

‘You’re not going to DIE from this pill!’ Trump ramps up his support for unproven anti-malaria drug

President Donald Trump doubled down on his defense of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for use to combat the coronavirus, saying no one would die from the pill.  ‘You not going to die from this pill. There could be some side effects but the side effects is more so from the Z pack,’ he said Tuesday at his … Read more

Trump launches full-frontal attack on ‘China-centric’ World Health Organization

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