Grant Shapps Says He Did His Own Research to Help Block Lockdown

Grant Shapps Says He Did His Own Research to Help Block Lockdown
UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps in an undated file photo. Stefan Rousseau/PA
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British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has claimed that doing his own research into COVID-19 and presented his results using homemade spreadsheets at crucial Cabinet meetings, helping to avert a lockdown in Christmas 2021.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Shapps said that he made his own spreadsheets based on international data and sometimes presented his findings at Cabinet and ministerial meetings “to bolster resistance to further restrictions.”
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