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Why did Boris prioritise Lebedev's peerage during the pandemic?

7 March 2022

1:37 AM

7 March 2022

1:37 AM

Like me, you probably remember the third week of March 2020 as though it were yesterday. Covid-19 was on these shores in scale. Hospitals were filling up with acutely sick people. On 16 March 2020, we’d been told by the Prime Minister to isolate at home for 14 days if we had Covid symptoms, to work from home where possible and to avoid unnecessary contact with anyone.

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