Dominic Cummings: later lockdowns were ‘unnecessary’

Dominic Cummings: later lockdowns were ‘unnecessary’

All the later Covid lockdowns were “unnecessary”, Dominic Cummings has claimed. During a podcast interview with the Spectator published this week, the former Number 10 chief adviser said it was “unarguable that there never needed to be any lockdown or anything approaching a lockdown in Quarter 3, Quarter 4 of 2020, or in 2021”. Had the Government learnt more quickly from its early pandemic response, he suggested, “there would never have been any…