Andy Richardson: 'The big stories are only just beginning'

Perhaps it’s time for a Greatest Hits.

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With the Downing Street press conferences finished, we’ll have to go back to watching Pointless.

The final conference was headlined by the Downing Street A-Team; Boris Johnson and the two men who gave us such hope when lockdown began, the brilliant Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.

After 92 briefings and two national addresses by the Prime Minister, there’ll be no more. Hancock’s Half Hour is scrapped – poor old Matt, and we’ll no longer see Dominic Raab telling us what a fighter Boris is, even though he owed his life to the work of nurses rather than superpowers.