Alec Hogg: Boris Johnson to follow Swedish lead

Of countries which have choices in such matters, only Sweden has thus far decided to trust its citizens to apply "personal responsibility" in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdown-free country's contrarian approach has been rewarded through limited economic disruption. And with 14 600 coronavirus deaths, its mortality rate of 1.3% of 1.1m confirmed cases (0.14% of its population) is comfortably below those nations where politicians applied their best ideas.

After a single-minded approach of mass vaccination, Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson has decided to follow Sweden's example. Yesterday he told countrymen that despite expert warnings of escalations in coronavirus infections, the UK will re-open Brexitland within a fortnight (see summary above from our partners at the FT). If successful, it will prove that vaccines offer a route back to normality. As does the merit of "personal responsibility" so distrusted by the political elite. Click here for the full story.

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