I remember very clearly was the health secretary pushing the cabinet office to go further in terms of not allowing public protest. I think it ended up that maybe six people could go along at very socially distance intervals and make their feelings known. If we lose our fundamental right to protest, sorry, how are we any better than the worst of the dictatorships? That seems to me if ordinary people cannot gather on a street or outsider a politician's place of work,. We've lost pretty much everything, haven't we? Well, there were a number of cabinet ministers and government advisors who quite approved of the way China did things. Let's be brutally honest about it. The Chancellor now was one of the

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