Labour Minister Defends COVID-19 Lockdowns in Lords Debate

Published on July 30, 2024

The government’s new health and social care minister in the House of Lords has defended the use of lockdowns and claimed that Labour was right to support them while in opposition. Baroness Merron—a former MP—responded to a question yesterday from the lockdown-sceptic Conservative Lord Robathan, who asked how many deaths involving  COVID-19 were certified during 2020–22, and whether this suggested lockdowns were “effective.” Lord Robathan lamented the fact that the government’s minister for science, Lord Vallance—known as Sir Patrick Vallance when he was the previous government’s chief scientific adviser—was not in his place to give the benefit of his “encyclopedic knowledge” on the subject....

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