Tony Abbott, who has been signed up as Boris Johnson’s new Brexit trade adviser, is talking to Policy Exchange this morning, where he is railing against the “health dictatorship” of coronavirus lockdowns.

Tony Abbott says governments should be less like doctors and more like “health economists” who ask “uncomfortable questions” about “the level of deaths we might have to live with”.

Abbott says the media have spread “virus hysteria,” and praises Sweden for allowing citizens more freedom.

Tony Abbott says "fear of falling sick [is] stopping us from being fully alive."

Tony Abbott says scientific opinion on the coronavirus in the UK is split between “alarmist” scientists and those who believe it is “not all that much worse than a severe flu."