Tony Blair: UK was too slow to lock down in face of coronavirus

Tony Blair: UK was too slow to lock down in face of coronavirus

The UK has been “badly hit” by coronavirus and even Government insiders acknowledge it had been too slow to lock down, Tony Blair said.

The former prime minister said he sympathised with the challenge facing Boris Johnson as he decided how to respond at a time when there was a lot of uncertainty about the virus.

But he said he would be less sympathetic if mistakes were made in the way the lockdown was eased.

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