The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has denied the UK’s strategy is about a choice between the health of the public and the health of the economy. But some older people fear they could be relegated to second class citizens – in the effort to get the country back to some degree of normality.
We speak to the broadcaster and Labour peer Joan Bakewell and the journalist Peter Hitchens – and begin by asking Mr Hitchens why he thought the lockdown was too draconian.