After all the triumphalism of the pubs reopening and "business as usual" we've seen, it would be utterly humiliating for the Government if they had to back down. I suspect if figures are being suppressed (as the above seems to suggest) this would be why.
Interesting thread regarding why the Leicester lockdown has been put in place when the numbers don't appear to back it up, as well as a salient warning for those who rely too heavily on the published Government figures.
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Forgive me for trawling back, but this is where things like the Cummings story have the potential to be really damaging. People in Leicester now have an "out", namely they can cite "childcare concerns" or similar, even if they don't have them. And if the Government act against them behaving in...