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23 Mar, 10 tweets, 4 min read
Associate Editor of The Daily Telegraph @GordonRayner analyses the one year of lockdown the past that led to over 126,000 deaths in the UK

Here’s what he found ⬇️

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🗓️Downing Street insiders say a meeting on March 14, 2020 was the moment lockdown became inevitable.

It would be 9 more days until the PM issued his historic “stay at home” direction – a delay that senior figures in Government now admit was a mistake telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/1…
🔴The PM accepts it was a mistake to delay the first national lockdown, close allies have said, while insisting the he was let down by scientific advisers.

The PM would act “harder, earlier and faster” if he had his time again, supporters say telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
Boris Johnson accepts he made a mistake in delaying first lockdown

POLL: Should the UK have locked down earlier?
✈️ A year after the decision not to close the borders was taken, arguments that were then raging at the heart of government are coming to light..

Though ministers and scientific advisers appear no closer to agreeing what the right course should have been telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
😷 "After he came out of hospital... he started talking about how we could lose more people to Covid than we lost in the Second World War."

This is how Boris Johnson's hospitalisation sparked a 'jostling for position' in No10
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
🧪 Revealed: How failures over test and trace, the Cheltenham Festival and lockdown decision-making have had devastating consequences
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/1…
🦠 Britain’s Covid death toll is the fifth highest in the world, and the fourth-highest per capita of any major country.

This is the big question, why did so many people die in the world’s fifth-richest country?
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/1…
🎧 Should more have been done? Or is hindsight really 20/20?

On #ChoppersPolitics @gordonrayner lets @christopherhope into his conversations with the people at the heart of the decision making

Listen here: playpodca.st/chopper
You can read @gordonrayner's One Year Of Lockdown series ⬇️

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