Today’s Newspoll is ugly for the Coalition, throwing their primary vote and two-party preferred deficit back into late Malcolm Turnbull territory. Yet Scott Morrison’s approval has started heading north again, reopening the hitherto closing approval gap between Morrison and Anthony Albanese.

How to explain it?  Let’s start with the PM.

In the last week, Morrison has started to do what Spectator Australia commentators have urged for months: take back control of the Covid agenda from provincialist premiers who have led Australia into her eliminationist dead end.