Published 1 year ago

Hancock told ministers to 'get heavy with police' to enforce lockdown, leaked messages suggest

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Ministers and the country's top civil servant talked about the need to "get heavy with the police" to make sure the public obeyed lockdown rules during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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