When Liz Truss appeared on Nick Ferrari's LBC show this morning, the international trade secretary made the same seemingly reasonable but spurious claim we're hearing from virtually everyone in government at the moment. That when the coronavirus pandemic began last Spring, the government quickly favoured a lockdown in an attempt to contain the spread of infections. "Herd immunity was never the declared strategy", Truss said. Luckily, someone who was influential in the government last Spring is willing to remind us what really happened: Dominic Cummings. In the latest of his extraordinary (and extraordinarily long) tweet threads about the pitfalls of Downing Street decision-making, the PM's former strategy guru lashed out at the "V. foolish and appalling [...] lie" that herd immunity wasn't Plan A during the early months of 2020. And for too long. Herd immunity, of course, was Plan A. It was also, contrary to Truss's declaration on LBC, the declared Plan A. (That Truss leaned on confide...