David Read: So, where is the data?

Yesterday morning I attended a regular Zoom update call alongside around eighty people, mostly from the hotel sector. As luck would have it the speaker was Kate Nicholls, CEO of UK Hospitality, someone who few would dispute has done more to keep the hospitality sector afloat in these troubled times than any other. She cut a frustrated figure as, an hour or so before Johnson rose to speak in the Commons on coronavirus, she updated us on the agenda that would shortly unfold. The list of measures was (to say the least) unwelcome, and there was a palpable level of shock in the meeting.