Boris is on holiday.....again

I think its a generational thing. Labour  recently has been worse, or little better. There's a culture that's not good at detail, spotting issues , or rapid decision making , A wave of departures of the brightest from politics from both front benches  in 2015-19 , didn't help. Johnson made it worse by sidelining both the Hunt and May supporters, and Starmer kept some of his most experienced and smarter people out of his shadow cabinet - like Yvette Cooper- possibly to get a less Blairite look , and to avoid them overshadowing him.

Gone are the days of top flyers ,people with external carrer success,  and people  who had succeeded in long treks  through the ministerial ranks- and long gone are the days of cabinets that had learnt crisis management in wartime. And so what you have now knows enough not to go against its medical advice , which may be wrong, but its no good at the  detail of the wider policy response . They also don't  know what on earth algorithms mean and haven't  got the sense to ask the right questions.