Sixty seconds on . . . breaking lockdown rules

Who were the UK’s biggest rulebreakers?Politicians and their advisers must be up there. Under Boris Johnson, 10 Downing Street seemed to host more parties during lockdown than most people do in “normal times,” a day trip by the PM’s aide Dominic Cummings did more to promote Barnard Castle than decades of work by the local council, and health secretary Matt Hancock and pandemic modeller Neil Ferguson were hardly role models for compliance.Hmmm. Is this a male thing?Previous surveys have shown women were far more likely to opt to wear a mask during lockdown than men.1 Some researchers and commentators have suggested that this was because men are less altruistic than women. Not even the fact that they were more likely than women to get seriously ill and die was enough to encourage some men to don masks. Studies also found that men were less likely to comply with handwashing and…
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