ALEX BRUMMER: How Boris Johnson’s big gamble to reopen the economy after Covid lockdowns has paid off
Back in July, Boris Johnson warned emphatically that if the British economy were not at last opened up after so many successive Covid lockdowns, we would ‘risk even tougher conditions’ in the colder months ahead.
These forthright claims were condemned by Labour, whose leader Sir Keir Starmer slammed them as a ‘reckless free-for-all’.
The Government’s ever-gloomy scientific advisers also insisted the great reopening was too much, too soon.
Today, four months on, the Prime Minister has been vindicated. His supposed rashness in the face of the pandemic looks to be paying off handsomely.
In July, Boris Johnson (pictured) warned if the British economy were not opened up after the…
