I mean why TF is Gove a Lord now? He spent Covid plotting with Cummings and grifting his sorry arse off, having already lied himself inside out over Brexit - another reason our country is in such a mess.
He gets a peerage.
We get to pay for it all.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bringing in lockdown a week earlier on 16 March would have meant 23,000 fewer deaths in England in the first wave, modelling suggests. This would have equated to 48% fewer deaths in the first wave.

Anyone watching the news could see what was happening in China & then Italy - we had the luxury of a few weeks notice to save thousands of lives but Johnson was sorting out his divorce & missing fucking Cobra meetings.

It's a bit of a bugbear of mine but the 'we're keeping pubs and restaurants open but please don't go to them' announcement was possibly the most pathetic act of governance my lifetime, but seems to have slipped from public consciousness.

Findings partic brutal about early 2020, describing the Feb as “lost month”. If lockdown was imposed a week earlier than March 16, it could've cut deaths in England by almost half. Many of same mistakes then "inexcusably" repeated - @peterwalker99.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The 750-page document also has stinging criticism of “toxic and chaotic” culture inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street – which it said the then PM. actively embraced – in which loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined.