Prepare to hear the repeated cry: 'It worked!'. It being the third lockdown, which — we will be told — has successfully driven down Covid infection rates and hospital admissions.

Not quite. It is today revealed that infection numbers peaked in the worst-hit regions at the start of the year, before the third lockdown began.

Likewise, Covid hospital admissions have just begun to fall in England; far too soon to be attributed to our latest term of house arrest.

Don't fall for the spin — it will only be used to justify another lockdown when this one is over.