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Coffee House Shots: Were we right to lock down? Michael Gove vs Toby Young
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:31:09
Publish Date: 2025-03-22 07:00:00
Description:
On 23 March 2020, then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the unprecedented decision to put the UK into lockdown. To mark the 5th anniversary of that announcement this weekend, we have brought together our editor Michael Gove – then a cabinet minister under Boris – and our associate editor Toby Young – an ardent critic of the decision – to answer the question, was the government right to lock down?

Was the decision a necessary and reasonable health measure based on the available evidence at the time, or a significant and avoidable violation of civil liberties by a government that was meant to champion liberal freedoms? You decide.

Produced and presented by Patrick Gibbons.
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