4 years, 8 months ago

Boris Johnson may be overcompensating for early failings on Covid but he has no choice

Only two weeks after suggesting there could be a “significant return to normality by Christmas”, why has Boris Johnson imposed new restrictions on 4 million people in the north and adopted a hardline stance on foreign travel? The clampdown on households meeting there covers a much wider area than Johnson envisaged when he christened plans for local lockdowns his “whack-a-mole” strategy. They thought they had won the “economy versus health” argument when Johnson urged employers to consider how to bring back people working at home to their offices and relaxed the advice on using public transport. Johnson’s summer optimism didn’t last long; he now hopes the restrictions will be lifted by “the middle of next year”.

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2 years, 6 months ago

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2 years, 7 months ago

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2 years, 9 months ago

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2 years, 9 months ago

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2 years, 11 months ago

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2 years, 11 months ago

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3 years, 1 month ago

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3 years, 1 month ago

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3 years, 1 month ago

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3 years, 1 month ago

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3 years, 2 months ago

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