urging the prime minister to act. and whatever the rights and wrongs of the government's decision, borisjohnson was following a pattern. at the start of the pandemic, he locked down england later than many european countries. in the autumn, he locked down later than his scientific advisers suggested. in december, he resisted calls for more restrictions at christmas, then changed his mind. and again here, he acted later than he might have. the question is — what was the impact of doing that? by mid may, the opposition was making these accusations. they should've put india on the red list at the same time as pakistan and as bangladesh. since then, we've had this three—week period in which thousands of people have returned from india, and that probably includes hundreds of new variant covid cases. and, as the case numbers in england increased, so did the criticism of what happened in april. injune, in june, george injune, george eaton of the new