Boris Johnson's delay in establishing the first lockdown in 2020 may have cost lives. That's according to The Telegraph's Associate Editor Gordon Rayner.

By the time Boris Johnson issued the stay-at-home order on March 23, the Prime Minister had already been repeatedly asked why he didn't do so sooner.

The Telegraph's Gordon Rayner reveals that the Conservative Government underestimated the British public's willingness to adapt to lockdown restrictions, and that Boris Johnson's usual tactic of leaving political decision until the last possible minute may have factored in too.

Watch the video above to see Gordon Rayner's full analysis on the delay to lockdown in March 2020, and why it proved a fatal mistake.

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