It has been almost one year since the World Health Organisation declared the end of Covid-19 as a public health emergency, and nearly two since the last pandemic restrictions in Britain were lifted. Yet saunter around Whitehall and you might be forgiven for thinking it is still late March 2020.
Writing in today’s Evening Standard, John Glen, minister for the Cabinet Office, said that some civil servants still “only come in on the odd day”. Even that may be putting it in characteristically diplomatic Whitehall language.
