nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210507-111655-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210507s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210507-111655-0 doi eng 342 23 Grogan, Joelle Author aut A Government (Un)Governed? Examining the UK’s Legal Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Grogan, Joelle Verfassungsblog 2021-05-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 16 December 2020, despite rising rates of infection and the widely predicted ‘second wave’ already impacting neighbouring European countries, Prime Minister Boris Johnson mocked the opposition for wanting to ‘cancel Christmas’ by reintroducing nationwide lockdown restrictions. Three days later, a nationwide lockdown in England was introduced (inadvertently mimicking the March 2020 commitment that London had ‘zero prospect’ of lockdown, four days before it was enforced). The lockdown – closing schools, universities and a majority of businesses which were deemed non-essential and prohibiting gatherings of more than two people outdoors from separate households – continued until 12 April 2021 when restrictions began to be lessened through a phased ‘roadmap out of lockdown’. Such political hyperbole by the executive and lax response, followed by sudden U-turn policy making (‘essay crisis’ governance) and severely restrictive measures, have characterised much of the response to the pandemic in the UK. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 COVID 19 United Kingdom Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/a-government-ungoverned/ raw object