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The fantasy prediction of 510,000 deaths

1 June 2021

6:33 PM

1 June 2021

6:33 PM

In the evidence he gave to the British parliament on 26 May, Boris Johnson’s former chief of staff Dominic Cummings added to the impression informed commentators had already reached that the UK policy-making process in early 2020 that resulted in the first Covid-19 lockdown at the end of March was conducted in an atmosphere of panic and chaos.

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