James Forsyth James Forsyth

Vaccine success is a boost for Boris – and the Union

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issue 06 February 2021

Imagine for a minute what British politics would be like without a Covid vaccine. The cabinet would be deeply, and possibly irrevocably, split between those who favoured another year of lockdown on public health grounds and those who thought that the country had no alternative in the circumstances but to ease restrictions and learn to live with the virus.

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