Lockdown

With a background in writing and editing and a long involvement in politics, Boris Johnson knows how to spin a yarn or two. Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson attempt to translate some of his Covid Inquiry statements.
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Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter has told the BBC that Covid infections were dropping before lockdown and he "really, really regrets" not having evidence sooner that closing schools was pointless.

According to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Brexit has been a major cause of the woeful performance of the U.K. economy over the last few years. That's nonsense, says Matthew Lynn. The truth is it was lockdown.
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BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson has claimed that climate change is driving mass immigration into Europe. However, surveys reveal that it was the over-reaction to Covid that has really triggered the exodus.
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When Gavin Newsom debates Ron DeSantis Thursday night on Fox News, voters might finally hear a serious discussion of an issue that most politicians have wanted to forget: the disastrous mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Angela McLean, the Government's Chief Scientist, told the Covid Inquiry that the U.K.'s 'circuit breaker' lockdowns in 2020 cut Covid infections. That's not what the data show, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
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China told a WHO probe that no new pathogen was responsible, and blamed the surge on common winter bugs that are hitting harder than usual due to lowered immunity from COVID restrictions. In response, the UK may be considering a return to mandates like forced masking.

Michael Gove has told the Covid Inquiry he became convinced lockdown was needed to counter the "man-made" coronavirus due to material from "friends outside Government", adding to the picture of why the world locked down.

U.K. ministers are facing accusations of a cover-up as it has been revealed that soldiers spied on critics of the Government's Covid response, including David Davis and Peter Hitchens.
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The Government sidelined and then shut down its ethics committee after it tried to intervene on the vaccination of children, it has emerged in a scandal that raises serious questions about the Government's Covid response.