[Cherie]

She is a great leader, and Boris et al have made mistakes, but its not a comparable scenario, for a start 9 million masks would be eaten up in London in a week.

The unfortunate thing about idle comparisons like this is that gives grist to the mill of extreme right wingers regarding immigration and overcrowding in some of our cities, and the narrative is being pushed by the left ironically, you are 4 times more likely to die if you are black, and you are more likely to live in a crowded city as well.

Analysis from the Office for National Statistics found that black men and women were more than four times more likely to die after contracting Covid-19 than those of white ethnicity,