There is no other country in Europe where what a senior adviser responsible for comms read last week is considered decisive for the direction of public health measures that will decide the fate of state and society. A deeply unserious process. https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1259048132144435200

No doubt how NHS, police and civil service officiald frame their advice and plan implementation is being done to pretty high professional standards.

Without such work on the civil service side the unseriousness of the political leadership would do even more damage