Sign up for the latest from M.E.N. political editor Jennifer Williams On March 23 last year, households were plunged into the first nationwide lockdown as Boris Johnson warned of “the devastating impact of this invisible killer”.
Coronavirus had already taken the lives of nearly 1,000 people in the UK, and the country was struggling to contain the spread of the virus, despite ministers’ pleas to the public to avoid unnecessary social contact and travel.
One year on from the prime minister’s chilling address, the country is now coming out of its third national lockdown having seen the grim UK death toll pass 125,000.