Boris Johnson feared that he ‘blinked too soon’ in plunging the UK into a second Covid lockdown after being warned that gloomy modelling which bounced him into the move was ‘very wrong’.
The former Prime Minister confirmed on October 31 2020 that the nation would be put into a shutdown to avoid a ‘medical and moral disaster’ for the health service.
The decision was, in part, based on data from Cambridge University in conjunction with Public Health England, which suggested