'Because of undermining adherence to the rules that we all need to follow, people are going to die,' government psychologist says ReicherStephen
’s defence of the senior aide’s 250-mile trip to Durham had ‘fatally undermined’ efforts to protect the UK from Covid-19.He continued: ‘If you look at the research it shows the reason why people observed lockdown was not for themselves, it wasn’t because they were personally at risk, they did it for the community, they did it because of a sense of “we’re all in this together”.
On Sunday Professor Reicher, who is a member of the government’s advisory group on behavioural science, wrote on Twitter that Johnson’s defence of Cummings had ‘trashed’ all their advice on how to ‘build trust and secure adherence’ to coronavirus measures in the UK.
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