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Sage advice?
With Britain set to have Europe’s worst coronavirus death rate, Boris Johnson is defensively claiming that his government "followed the science.” But did they? SOLOMON HUGHES investigates

THANKS to pressure from Labour, the government has slowly released documents from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), the government’s main source of scientific advice.
These show that government claims to “follow the science” are not really true.
The papers do not tell a simple story of government ignoring good advice — they also show that there were flaws in that advice. But they do show the government lagging behind, misrepresenting or ignoring some of the advice.
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