The Government is often accused rightly, of being out of touch with how ordinary people live their lives.
Boris Johnson displayed his legendary out of touchness again on Wednesday when failing to properly address the question of the spread of COVID-19 infections in schools.
The start of secondary education will be delayed until later in January but the start of primary school will happen or not on 4th January depending on an apparently rather random list Gavin Williamson has flourished.
Johnson complained that the reason for the rise in infections was not school pupils but mixing in households.
Clearly he is remembering his own schooldays.
He was a boarding pupil at Ashdown House Prep School in East Sussex from 1975-1977.
He then won a scholarship to Eton from 1977 until 1982 where apart from his first term he was a boarding pupil on college premises.
So in his memory pupils at school dont mix with parents. Except in the real world, they do…
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