Planet Normal’s Lockdown Heroes
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The Cost of Lockdown
Jonathan Sumptian is a former Supreme Court judge and one of the UK's foremost legal experts. Yet despite his impeccable establishment credentials, he was an early critic of lockdown. Since appearing on Planet Normal in September 2020, Lord Sumptian has made frequent telling interventions. And following the telegraph's exposure of the lockdown files, featuring those ministerial lockdown era WhatsApp messages, Lord SumPTian has railed against what he describes as the narcissism, superficiality and hypocrisy of UK government during that period. So how did Mr Sumptian feel when Boris Johnson told us to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives?
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