The UK’s border policy is a “joke”, Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser has said as the row intensifies over whether the Indian coronavirus variant could have been stopped before it entered Britain.

The UKs border policy is a joke, Boris Johnsons former chief adviser has said as the row intensifies over whether the Indian coronavirus variant could have been stopped before it entered Britain.
Dominic Cummings accused the government of being totally hostile to learning from east Asia over the course of the pandemic, resulting in a reluctance to close the UKs borders.
Writing on Twitter, Cummings, who left Downing Street during a power struggle late last year, said that one of the biggest misunderstandings was that there is a trade-off between locking down to stop Covid and protecting the economy. Fact: evidence clear that fast hard effective action best policy for economy AND for reducing deaths/suffering, he wrote. Best example: Taiwan. Also shows that if