OPINION - The Standard View: Choppy waters ahead for an embattled Prime Minister

Today is just the start of what promises to be an intensely disagreeable week for the Prime Minister. The past returns to haunt him in his appearance today at the Covid Inquiry, where he will be obliged to justify his controversial Eat Out to Help Out programme. It transpired that one thing it helped out was the spread of coronavirus. But the present is no more inviting as two separate Tory factions deliberate whether to support the second reading of his Safety of Rwanda Bill. Trouble is, the...