I know I will not be alone in watching intently how Conservative MPs are responding to the report on Boris Johnson’s misleading of parliament (and the British public) during Covid (Editorial, 15 June). My treasured 30-year-old son Dom lost his battle with depression, dying by suicide in May 2021. While I have learned, for my own peace of mind, not to attach significance to the timing of Dom’s death, the fact remains that following the “rules” meant I couldn’t offer Dom the opportunity to come home (and so I wasn’t able to provide the support that I’d previously always given to him when he most needed it).
Meet-ups were in London parks, to which I drove from my home town in Thame, Oxfordshire – not exactly straightforward, but doing the right thing is rarely easy. Of course, as a concerned parent, I wanted to swoop him up, but I also recognised the shared responsibility that we had to follow a set of rules designed to safeguard us all.
