By Rachel Johnson

I don't often do this, but sometimes I am moved to speak about something that does involve my brother, who was your Prime Minister for a couple of years.

I want to say a few words about Baroness Hallett's Covid Report. It only took 800 pages. It only took a mere £200m of our money, that is £160,000 a day and a modelling graph to conclude that Boris Johnson's decision to lock down a week late caused 23,000 deaths.

A figure, I should remind you, based on data, supplied by the discredited former government scientist, Professor Neil Ferguson.

And this conclusion is being received as though my brother was the Grim Reaper himself and personally visited each bedside to deliver the mortal blow.

This is expensive, vindictive rubbish, crafted with the 20/20 vision of perfect hindsight.

And I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I thought lockdowns were unnecessary. We should have protected the vulnerable and the elderly. We should never have shuttered the economy and closed schools and playgrounds.

In my view, it was a contender for the worst........

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