The claim
"One of the critical things that was completely wrong in the whole official thinking... in February-March was: First of all, the British public will not accept a lockdown. Secondly, the British public will not accept what was thought of as an east Asian-style track and trace-type system"
Rating
We checked and the minutes from a meeting of the behavioural science advisers (SPI-B) on 12 March suggest they thought people would accept restrictions.
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