{"id":413,"date":"2024-06-15T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/?post_type=te_announcements&#038;p=413"},"modified":"2024-06-15T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T19:13:08","slug":"tony-blair-uk-was-too-slow-to-lock-down-in-face-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"te_announcements","link":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/announcement\/tony-blair-uk-was-too-slow-to-lock-down-in-face-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair: UK was too slow to lock down in face of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-26838ee5_paddingleft0 beltel-26838ee5_paddingright0 beltel-7199e23_root beltel-804a7bc3_root\" data-auth-intro=\"article\" data-testid=\"article-intro\">\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\">The UK has been \u201cbadly hit\u201d by coronavirus and even Government insiders acknowledge it had been too slow to lock down, Tony Blair said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-26838ee5_paddingleft0 beltel-26838ee5_paddingright0 beltel-804a7bc3_root\" data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\">But he said he would be less sympathetic if mistakes were made in the way the lockdown was eased.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Tony-Blair_-UK-was-too-slow-to-lock-down-in-face-of-coronavirus-_-BelfastTelegraph.co_.uk_.pdf\">Tony Blair_ UK was too slow to lock down in face of coronavirus _ BelfastTelegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-413","te_announcements","type-te_announcements","status-publish","hentry"],"announcement_date":"Announcement Date: June 25, 2020","announcement_image":{"iframe":false,"url":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/VL-e1703976867398.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/te_announcements"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}