The claim, repeated by Dominic Cummings to MPs yesterday, that without a lockdown in March 2020 "the NHS is going to be smashed in weeks" is demonstrably false. Infections were declining even as the words were spoken.
After apologising in front of MPs today for his own errors relating to the Government's Covid response, Dominic Cummings said that Matt Hancock should have been sacked for "lying to everybody on multiple occasions".
Judging from the bombs Dominic Cummings is going to drop – and which he's leaked to the Daily Mail – Boris is a 64 carat lockdown sceptic. If only he'd stuck to his guns.
In denying that herd immunity was ever Government policy, ministers are drawing a distinction between something being policy and accepted as inevitable. If only this distinction had been applied throughout the year.
On 15 March last year, Matt Hancock said, "We have a plan ... Herd immunity is not part of it." Now Dominic Cummings claims that "herd immunity by Sep" was "literally the official plan in all docs/graphs/meetings".
Dominic Cummings has written a pro-lockdown Twitter thread, but it isn't very convincing. Here's a point-by-point response.
Boris Johnson's former chief adviser Dominic Cummings has thrown his latest blast at the Government for not being enough like China and locking down faster and harder. But has he got his facts right?
Dominic Cummings's latest attack on Boris relies on a naive faith in lockdowns. In fact, Boris was right to resist calls for a 'circuit breaker' last autumn and right to push back against calls for a second lockdown.
