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The biggest mistake was not locking down 2 weeks earlier in March 2020. Brexit was about 'taking back control' and controlling the borders but the Government didn't do that in 2020. If we locked down 2 weeks earlier in March, thousands of deaths could have been avoided but instead we didn't. Then we come to shutting travel from India when the delta variant was going around and Johnson didn't want to shut the border because he was banking on a post-Brexit trade deal with India.

Every step of the way they've made mistakes whether it's lockdown's, PPE, test and trace, the app that doesn't properly work, sending mix and contradictory messages to people. Also people going on about 'Lockdown's being mistake', no one knew anything about this virus when it came about and we are still discovering things about it, what about long covid? What are the lasting damages on people's physical health? Lockdown's will have had detrimental effect on people as well with mental health and physical health etc and before anyone says Labour wouldn't have done any better we don't know that and will never know that because Labour weren't and aren't in power and therefore we can't talk about a hypothetical scenario which has never happened. As for the EU vaccination programme, Britain has never been in that programme pre-covid or post-covid the only people and parties who wanted us to be part of it post-Brexit was the Lib Dems and some individuals in the Labour Party.

What needs to happen in the future is there needs to be a detailed, thought out plan in place just in case something like this happens again.