as borisjohnson was telling britons people to avoid unnecessary travel from home, pedro sanchez announcedrkel in germany waited though. she ordered a lockdown on 22 march — only one day before the uk. however, while the uk government is guided by science, ultimately lockdown decisions are made by ministers. political correspondent rob watson explains. i think, on the one hand, the good news for the government, if you like — amidst the bad news over its perceived mistakes and handling of the crisis — is that there doesn't seem to be a, sort of, smoking gun where one scientist said to borisjohnson or some other minister, "hey, if you don't do this right away, all hell will break loose." so there isn't a smoking gun in that sense, but i think what you have is a growing sense of amateurishness about the way the british government handled this, and also a sense that the government very much overpromised and under—delivered. and if you don't mind, i thought i'd pick this out as something quite revealing that mrjohnson said on the 2nd of march. and that is, he said, "this country is very, very w