🔴 Throughout the course of the pandemic, officials and ministers wrestled with how to ensure the public complied with ever-changing lockdown restrictions.
One weapon in their arsenal was fear
🗣 “We frighten the pants off everyone,” Matt Hancock suggested during one WhatsApp message with his media adviser telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/0…
🇺🇦 Bakhmut’s mayor has said Russian forces are turning Bakhmut into Mariupol as Ukrainian troops face “severe pressure” from Russian shelling in the city today
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🇷🇺 Russia's defence minister has inspected the front line in eastern Ukraine and awarded troops on a rare visit to the country as the battle of Bakhmut intensifies
🔴 Mr Hancock and Mr Sunak were at odds during the pandemic over the extent of lockdown measures, with the then health secretary in favour of tighter restrictions than the then chancellor.