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March 25, 2020 21: 09:38
By March 3, China had actually sealed off a city of 11 million people, the World Health Organisation had declared an international health emergency situation and the pathogen had actually claimed its first British victim.
However even then, even as he unveiled an official action strategy, a Union Jack at each shoulder, the Prime Minister talked of “going about service as normal”.
Mussed hair, tie askew, Boris Johnson’s career has been buil