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Put people before profit — end lockdown only when safe
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that the government must only reopen schools and wider workplaces once it’s safe to do so

THE scandal around the Prime Minister’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings will have left the public rightly believing that there’s one rule for the rich and powerful and another for everybody else.  

Clearly, the government has treated people as mugs. As a result of this rank hypocrisy over these events, there is now a real danger that the government’s conduct will undermine confidence in the public-health message at a critical time.

Government failures have already resulted in British citizens paying with one of the world’s highest death counts. More lives could be lost by a government-created breakdown in trust in its lockdown rules.

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