First published on Thu 14 Jan 2021 13.23 EST
An article by Toby Young for the Daily Telegraph was “significantly misleading” when it said that catching a cold could protect people from coronavirus and claimed that London was approaching herd immunity, the press regulator has ruled.
In a decision published on Thursday, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) complaints committee ordered the Telegraph to publish a correction over the column, which was appeared in July last year under the headline: “When we have herd immunity Boris will face a reckoning on this pointless and damaging lockdown.”
Young told the Guardian that he “may have been overemphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it’s not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic”.
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The BBC presenter challenged Toby Young, Lockdown Sceptics editor and also associate editor of the Spectator, over previous remarks he made rubbishing chances of a second spike of coronavirus cases. It comes as England entered its third national lockdown as cases have surged, with the UK recording over 60,000 daily infections yesterday.
A prominent lockdown sceptic was forced to admit he got it wrong after saying the coronavirus had all but disappeared Thomas Colson Toby Young appears on BBC Newsnight with host Emily Maitlis A prominent British campaigner against lockdowns has said he got that wrong after predicting in the summer that the coronavirus had all but disappeared. Writer and commentator Toby Young wrote in aJune article for the Telegraph newspaper that a second spike of COVID-19 infections had refused to materialise. Hands up, I got that wrong, Young said on BBC Newsnight on Tuesday, before arguing that lockdowns had caused more harm than they have prevented.
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