Perhaps ‘freedom day’ eve was never destined to run smoothly. Nevertheless, the breaking news this morning that both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor had been contacted by NHS Test and Trace falls in the realm of absurdities that one just couldn’t make up. It had initially been announced that Johnson and Sunak would be taking advantage of a pilot scheme that would have allowed them to avoid self-isolating, under the proviso that they took daily lateral flow tests and kept their work to essential duties only.
However, it has since been announced that the pair will now self-isolate after all, with the new health secretary Sajid Javid already isolating after having tested positive for Covid, Trevor Phillips spoke to the housing secretary Robert Jenrick and asked him about how the government’s leading double act had managed to try and take advantage of the scheme in the first place:
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