Evidence today that the chief medical officer and the government do not expect Covid19 to approach epidemic scale till April at earliest (if it happens at all) because Downing St says temporary emergency powers to delay spread of virus will not become law till end of this...
month. And draft laws, giving government sweeping powers to shut schools, ban big public gatherings, force individuals into quarantine, won’t be published for some days. Very important that these draconian infringements of right to free movement within the UK will have sunset...
clauses. But temporarily Boris Johnson will become as powerful as China’s president.
