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Lord Sumption: ‘These (lockdown) rules are an attack on our humanity. They are an assault on everything that makes humanity spiritually valuable’

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Lord Sumption is the intellectual champion of the anti-lockdowners – one of the few public figures prepared to stick his neck out and articulate a case against the Government’s measures...
🗣️‘Covid-19 is towards the upper end [the most bearable] of the kind of epidemic that humanity has had to cope with from the beginning of time’

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‘It is historically extreme and unusual,’ he adds. ‘We have never, ever done such a thing.’

By contrast, he argues, the various lockdowns the Government has enforced over the past year have been brutal in prohibiting the most basic of human interactions
Read the full interview here 👇

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