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Boris's Covid policy is finally starting to make some sense

15 October 2020

6:08 PM

15 October 2020

6:08 PM

Boris Johnson probably thought he emerged from Prime Minister’s Questions this week having maximised his freedom of manoeuvre in the battle against coronavirus. Indeed, at one point he made it explicitly clear that he was not promising that there would be no second national lockdown, declaring: ‘I rule out nothing.’

While that may be the formal position, the politics of the issue now make it much less likely that the Prime Minister will go down this track.

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