26 February

I don’t think we pay attention. At the beginning of the vaccine rollout in the UK, like the rest of the world decision-making was based on risk. Old people get the vaccine first, because they’re at highest risk. we stupidly thought this was some sort of concern for old people. It wasn’t that, it was about keeping hospitals open without overloading them. The rubber was always going to hit the road at the next stage of the vaccine rollout – working age people. Unsurprisingly the economic Nazis in the UK have thrown the risk framework completely out the window now, the priority is to maximise the number of people back at work. That was always the priority, from day one of the pandemic.