Is this delay about saving face?

Posted at 11.30am UK time

Boris Johnson knows that at some stage there will be a full investigation into the government's handling of the pandemic. It therefore seems at least possible that the extreme caution on opening up is in part motivated by a desire to suppress deaths at any cost, so that when being grilled by a Parliamentary Special Committee, Johnson can say, "Look at deaths: these European countries did worse."

A D M Collingwood

A D M Collingwood is the writer and Editor of BritanniQ, a free, weekly newsletter by Bournbrook Magazine which curates essays, polemics, podcasts, books, biographies and quietly patriotic beauty, and sends the best directly to the inboxes of intelligent Britons.

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