Andrew Neil is back on our TV screens (‘Boris Johnson: Has He Run Out of Road?’, Channel 4 this evening). Perhaps the most dramatic moment in the documentary is when he confronts Michael Gove, one of the main advocates of lockdown, over the blood-curdling government posters used last year: ‘Look her in the eyes and tell her you never bend the rules.’ Now we know, Neil said, that those who commissioned these posters were breaking the rules.
The following exchange then takes place:
Thousands of people were taken to the courts for defying the lockdown rules Gove advocated
Andrew Neil ‘Given what we know now, it was a cavalier approach to lockdown.’
Michael Gove ‘The Prime Minister has been clear that mistakes were made and he’s taken responsibility for those. I’m sure that when the report is published there will be from individuals concerned recognition, contrition and so on and you know we owe them an element of Christian forgiveness.
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