No amount of money spent on PR consultants could mask the fact that a second lockdown is a sign of fundamental weakness
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One day, when the face masks are stashed away and normal life is resumed, there will need to be a public inquiry into the disaster that befell the United Kingdom, and its constituent parts, during 2020.
Provided it is not an attempt at a whitewash, the report, when it eventually arrives, will make grisly reading. The facts are already known: the UK has one of the highest death tolls per head of population in the world, and will have seen its economy shrink by 10% in a single year, cancer patients left untreated, a surge in domestic abuse and a rise in mental illness.
