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thing is we have heard this morning is that sir patrick vallance was suggesting that the scientists put a lot of time into working out when the best moment was to put those interventions in place, that we saw, and then he said, by the time they got to that weekend of 14th, 15th of got to that weekend of 1ath, 15th of march, they realise you could not predict in that precise a way, and they should have potentially gone earlier with that. it was interesting, quite a big issue at the time, he says that he was arguing as early as that weekend for london to go into a lockdown ahead of the rest of the country, he was saying it was because they looked at the data and it worked out that the disease had progressed much faster, more widespread than they thought, as he put it, further along in the pandemic than they had thought they would be. and that is what changed the dial that weekend. and who was at that put the brakes on that decision about london lockdown? it was the chancellor.