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The government might call it ‘freedom day’ but we are far from free of Covid and the devastating effects of Tory mismanagement, writes DAVID ROSENBERG
Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears on a screen as he self-isolates during a media briefing

I AM looking forward to genuine freedom from the pandemic as much as anyone else.

We have all missed out on so much over the past 16 months, but I’ll be taking it slowly and carefully and hope that, for community health and wellbeing, others will too.

This is really not an individual matter. For the government, this is, to give its full title, Freedom From Accountability Day. Will all their MPs be returning to Parliament today (apart from those self-isolating because of some virus)? No, thought not.

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