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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Adam Wagner

Boris Johnson’s Covid laws took away our rights with flick of a pen. Don’t let that happen again

Boris Johnson addressing the nation from 10 Downing Street as he placed the UK on lockdown.
Boris Johnson addressing the nation from 10 Downing Street as he placed the UK under lockdown in March 2020. Photograph: PA

It is almost three years since the first case of a novel coronavirus was identified in Wuhan, China.

It’s just over two and a half years since Boris Johnson gave us a “very simple instruction”, that we “must stay at home”, followed – three days later – by a law that for the first time in our history would impose a 24-hour curfew on almost the entire population. The years, months, weeks and days since have been so relentless – and at times almost beyond belief – that it is difficult to begin to process them. Many of us have experienced personal bereavement, and everyone has been touched in some way.

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