In a global pandemic, the government has taken responsibility for protecting the nation. Unfortunately, a global pandemic is not a matter where the government are the best people to decide how best to achieve this task. Because of this the government must, to quote Boris himself, “follow the science.’” And yet science is not all that must be juggled; economic issues and trade, and personal popularity complicate just who is making the decisions in Downing Street. Especially in a time where we are verging on the widening of our freedoms – and the widespread of a new threatening variant ...