British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has claimed that doing his own research into COVID-19 and presented his results using homemade spreadsheets at crucial Cabinet meetings, helping to avert a lockdown in Christmas 2021.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Shapps said that he made his own spreadsheets based on international data and sometimes presented his findings at Cabinet and ministerial meetings “to bolster resistance to further restrictions.”
In 2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson entered a fierce debate over imposing fresh COVID-19 restrictions amid opposition from his own Cabinet.
At the time, government scientific advisers SAGE called for an “immediate” curtailment of indoor mixing to combat the spread of the Omicron virus variant. Johnson eventually refused any COVID-19 restrictions….