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The Covid inquiry’s pro-lockdown propaganda | Michael Simmons

The Covid inquiry’s pro-lockdown propaganda | Michael Simmons

Update: 2025-11-26
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The UK’s Covid inquiry has made the audacious – and utterly misleading – claim that an earlier lockdown could have saved thousands of lives. Here, Michael Simmons – economics editor at the Spectator and host of the Reality Check podcast – exposes the dodgy data being peddled by the ‘experts’, the groupthink that pushed us into lockdown, and the economic devastation that is still being felt today. 


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The Covid inquiry’s pro-lockdown propaganda | Michael Simmons

The Covid inquiry’s pro-lockdown propaganda | Michael Simmons

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