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The coronavirus crisis: where is the British left?
The invasion of Iraq provoked the Stop The War movement and nuclear weapons created CND — so where is the left-wing response to the Tories’ appalling handling of Covid-19 now that 40,000 have died, asks IAN SINCLAIR

FROM mid-April onwards the government came under intense pressure to start lifting the lockdown it had imposed on March 23.

A relatively early loosening of restrictions was supported by business groups and their cheerleaders in the right-wing press and the Cabinet (Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Home Secretary Priti Patel and perhaps Michael Gove too).

Pressure was also applied by the leaders of the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party.

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