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James O’Brien on the government’s care home ‘protective ring’ is a devastating 2 minute listen

Matt Hancock might have to rewrite one of the chapters of his memoirs after the High Court today ruled that the government’s policy towards care homes at the start of the Covid pandemic was illegal.

The former health secretary and the government went on endlessly about the ‘protective ring’ they were throwing around the country’s most vulnerable residents.

But the High Court said today that the policy of not isolating people discharged from hospital to care homes was ‘irrational’.

Extraordinary stuff, even for this government. And it prompted no end of reactions.

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But LBC presenter James O’Brien might have said it best in this devastating 2 minute monologue.

And you can follow @mrjamesob on Twitter here.

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Source Twitter @LBC