The sense of an endingFamous last words? For once, a Boris Johnson address to the 1922 Committee makes the front pages for the reasons intended. After one of the hairiest weeks of the pandemic for some time, more data on the Indian variant is trickling in, and the PM, it seems, likes the look of what he is seeing. SponsoredLast night he told Tory MPs that he was “even more cautiously optimistic than last Thursday” and declared: “I know there are anxieties about new variants. But we can see nothing to suggest that we have to deviate from the road map.”Cue the darts music JESSICA TAYLOR/GETTY IMAGESAnd that isn’t just Boris boosterism: the government’s scientific advisers are sounding remarkably chipper too.

Source: The Times May 20, 2021 07:52 UTC